According to your votes, fashion-loving stylist Lenya Jones won last month’s “pose like WendyB” contest. Congrats, Lenya! No prizes were promised beyond bragging rights — and those are priceless, of course — but I feel like that’s a little bit of a letdown. So I hereby offer Lenya free shipping on her next jewelry purchase….
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What Wendy Wore: Tiffeau at the Rising Star Awards
The lovely Mitria from Fashion Group International sent me some photos from last week’s Rising Star Awards luncheon. Naturally, I struck my trademark pose for my official photo. What Wendy Wore Dress: Vintage Jacques Tiffeau (purchased in 2009) Tights: Random black opaque tights Shoes: Yves Saint Laurent with gold heels (can’t remember when I got…
It Was an Honor to Be a Finalist!
Well, I didn’t win Fashion Group International’s Rising Star Award for fine jewelry, but it was fabulous to be a finalist. I got a plaque as a souvenir and a corsage to wear for the Rising Star lunch at Cipriani 42nd Street. I don’t think I’ve gotten a corsage since eighth grade! I was delighted…
Never Is the Next New Thing™: Knickers Update
My “Never Is the Next New Thing™”* fashion theory proposes that the most provocative/grating/startling looks — the ones that make you say, “I would NEVER wear that!” — are the ones most likely to become trends, big or small. We need to be jolted out of our fashion complacency before we move in a new…
WendyB Called. She Wants Her Pose Back.
Once, when my father, GeorgeB, was struggling to take an acceptable outfit photo of me for this blog (“Move! Don’t stand there like a statue!”), I said sadly, “I have only one pose.” “Be thankful,” GeorgeB replied, “Some people don’t even have one.” It was the fashion-blogger version of “I cried because I had no…
What Wendy Wore: Desert Pose
I took a quick trip to Phoenix over the weekend. Thinking of Lexie, the gorgeous blogger who requested casual pictures, I posed with the local flora in the leopard-print Betsey Johnson jacket I’ve had since the early ’90s. Here’s the jacket in 1994. And here’s the jacket now. These days, I wear it with pants…
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
I’ll be doing some more technical stuff with my blog this weekend, so I might be offline for a while. Up to 72 hours, in fact! I hope it doesn’t come to that. I’ll be back as soon as I can.
A Tip of the Hat to Philip Treacy
I’m yearning for warmer weather in part because I miss wearing the vintage Philip Treacy hat I got last year. (It’s a good weight for spring, summer and fall, but too light for New York winters.) The hat has Andy Warhol’s portrait of Elizabeth Taylor on it and I love the way her lips match…
Colorful Biker Jackets and ’80s Hair
In the early ’80s, when I was growing up in Mahwah, N.J., my younger sister, Terri Berry, had a weekly dance class in New York City. My mother and I would spend the time at Bloomingdale’s. Week after week, I gazed longingly at a pale pink and gray leather motorcycle-style jacket. I don’t think I…
What Wendy Wore: New Year’s Eve Photobombing
I hope you all had a good time ringing in the new year. I had my traditional New Year’s/belated birthday celebration at Balthazar (check out a decade of New Year’s fashions here). I finally wore the Zang Toi dress that I first ogled in Zang’s September 2009 show. It’s a spring dress so I added…