This week, most of my blog posts offered suggestions for how to express yourself stylistically. Monday: You could go the club-kid route and wear these ridiculous Jeffrey Campbell shoes (but I know you won’t). Tuesday: My new emoji stud earrings are clearly a better choice than rainbow platform shoes. Wednesday: Like my emoji designs but…
Fashion
Pink Lipstick Recommendation: YSL Rouge Volupte in Rose Culte
I was seriously into eyeshadow during my teen years in the 1980s but now my favorite kind of makeup is lipstick. Red is my everyday color and I’ve got two perfect, long-lasting reds (one from MAC and one from Chanel). I’ve temporarily given up on my search for the right shade of purple after too…
A Shoe Worthy of April Fools’ Day; You’ll Be Trippin’!
You know when you’re shopping for clothes or shoes and you see something awesome but then you think, “If I got that, I’d need a whole new wardrobe to go with it”? Well, because I’m a helpful person, I have a list of accessories that you’ll require if you’re considering buying these Jeffrey Campbell shoes…
Boyfriend Jeans? Yes. Boyfriend Jewelry? No.
Actress Lea Michele (Glee) was recently spotted wearing a gold nameplate necklace reading “Cory,” in honor of her boyfriend/co-star Cory Monteith. The concept doesn’t appeal to gorgeous JCK Magazine writer Stephanie Schaefer, who blogged, “To me, this trend seems to be the equivalent of doodling hearts around your boyfriend’s name in middle school—cute, but also…
What Wendy Wore: Dolce & Gabbana and Rihanna’s Necklace
I sure do love leopard print, and one of my major fashion regrets is that I missed out on a two-toned leopard-print dress by Dolce & Gabbana in 2010. After I saw this bit of perfection on Rihanna I searched for it everywhere but to no avail. It was sold out in my size. I’m…
“Covert Luxury”: Jewelry With Secrets in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal today ran an article by Jenni Avins called “Falling for the Flip Side” about jewelry with secret details. I so wish I had been included in this story because the first paragraph captures my design philosophy so well: “To the casual observer, jewelry is all about catching the eye—how a stone…
What Wendy Wore: Leopard-Print DVF From 2002
While reading this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, I laughed a little over a story called, “The One That Got Away,” about shopping for past-season, but not-officially-vintage fashion on Yoox, eBay, and a number of recently launched pre-owned clothing sites. In particular, these two sentences amused me: “Buying clothes in this way, however, requires a change…
What Wendy Wore: Warm Climate, White Jeans
MrB and I are in Miami, happy to have escaped New York’s cold weather for a couple of days. Here’s what I wore for dinner with friends last night, styled in advance by Stacy Lomman. What Wendy Wore Top: Kelly Wearstler (2012) Jeans: Acne (2007) Shoes: Miu Miu (2010) I want to go to sleep…
New Jewelry Design: Emoticon-Heart Stud-Earring Set
When I started this blog in July 2007, I decided I wasn’t going to write about jewelry every day. In fact, I decided I wasn’t going to commit to writing about any one topic every day. Even back then, before the fashion-blogger boom, I’d already seen numerous fashion bloggers burn out after six or eight…
Fall 2013’s Fur-Skirt Mini-Trend; Plus, Phind Me on Pheed!
The Fall 2013 fashion shows have wrapped up and Eric Wilson of The New York Times, who observed a lot of mini-trends on the runways, picked one that stood out to him: “… most intriguing, both in its pervasiveness and its silliness,” he wrote, “is the fur skirt.” But, Wilson wondered, why does the fur…