Wednesday, February 23, 2011
I didn’t get a chance to post about it during Fashion Week, but I was very excited to be mentioned in the February 10, 2011, issue of The Daily, the must-read magazine handed out at the fashion shows. A Daily reporter asked me for my opinion of WikiLeaks back in January at the Fashion Group [...]
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Friday, January 14, 2011
I never imagined I’d be able to outdo my recent Drysdale Awards, so I’m beyond thrilled to say I’m a finalist in the fine jewelry category of Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Awards for emerging talent! The list of all the categories and nominees is in WWD today. FGI is a nonprofit organization that helps [...]
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
In October, I went to a Food & Wine Magazine “New Year’s Eve dinner party” shoot at my designing friend Zang Toi’s house. The other guests were White House executive pastry chef Bill Yosses; models Deborah Fenker and Ling Tan; and the lovely Cecilia who, like me, is neither a model nor a famous chef. [...]
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Run to your nearest newsstand and buy the November 2010 issue of InStyle with Rachel McAdams on the cover, because my Clemence ring in 18K gold and rock crystal is on page 315! Thanks for including me, InStyle peeps! Here’s a close-up. Thanks also go out to Belle de Ville for being the first person [...]
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
In 2007, a dude named Chris Crocker got his 15 minutes of fame by crying through a video defense of Britney Spears called “Leave Britney Alone.” Now I’ve done a “Leave Hillary Clinton Alone” video, but I did it without weeping. Dang! My 15 minutes of viral fame might have to wait until I can [...]
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
My 4 1/2″-long Cleopatra earrings — worn by Kim Cattrall’s character Samantha in Sex and the City 2 — are in the Thursday Styles section of the New York Times today! If you get the paper version of the newspaper, go to Stephanie Rosenbloom’s Scavenger column on page E3. If you’re online only, click here. [...]
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Thanks to gorgeous blogger Deja Pseu for spotting my name in an InStyle.com feature on Sex and the City 2. For more about the earrings Samantha is wearing rather invisibly in this photo, click here, here and here. Don’t forget that you can win a pair of the earrings in silver — worth $450 — [...]
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
I’ve got the 1984 song “Big in Japan” by Alphaville stuck in my head. Before it was a song, “big in Japan” was a mocking description of rock bands that weren’t successful at home in the U.S. or U.K., but were popular in Japan. The Japanese fans were considered a poor consolation prize. Personally, I’d [...]
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Gorgeous blogger Julia, the Thanksgiving Girl, has achieved two Wendy Brandes Jewelry firsts. She’s my first customer in Russia AND she’s the first to get the gold-plated version of my swear rings. Gold-plated means that these are the normal silver swear rings with a thin layer of yellow gold on top.A The plated rings are [...]
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
In case you missed it earlier this week, there’s a big, beautiful photo of my Marie Antoinette ring on InStyle.com. I was happy that Marion Fasel, the contributing editor for fine jewelry, described the ways in which the story of Marie Antoinette inspired my design. Thanks, Marion! You might have already figured out that the [...]
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