I like to keep an eye out for “Fashion Repeats Itself” moments, so I was pleased that Vanessa Friedman of the New York Times pointed out the anchor wedges at the recent Thom Browne runway show. But a tip of the hat goes to my designing friend Stacy Lomman, who alerted me to Vanessa’s tweet….
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First Day of Fall, Last Dresses of Summer
Every year, as fall approaches, I realize I haven’t worn all my summer dresses. I raced to squeeze in a few of them recently. For a nonprofit organization’s cocktail party and dinner, I wore a JC de Castelbajac dress that I bought in Paris in 2013. What Wendy Wore Dress (with pockets!): JC de Castelbajac…
What Wendy Wore in the Rain: Paul Simon, July 4th
I swear that there was one New York summer in the 1990s during which we had rain every weekend. Something like 13 weekends in a row. (I’m trying to Poodle this, but I don’t want to spend all day on mid-1990s weather research, so just go with me here.) Even so, I don’t think I…
Coachella 2016: What Wendy (and Other People) Wore
It’s easy to get a bad impression of Coachella fashion, especially after the media deluge of stories about how to dress for music festivals, followed by the stories on how music-festival fashion has gone too far. Style cliches abound on Instagram and then are beaten into the ground by style writers: the culturally inappropriate Native…
Year in Review: What Wendy Wore in 2015
Here’s a “What Wendy Wore” outfit for each month of 2015. (I’m not including any of the looks from my “Outfits on Repeat in 2015” post.) Click the photos for the original posts. I felt great in the Zang Toi jacket and faux-garter tights that I wore to Zang’s runway show in February 2014, so…
What Wendy Wore: Outfits on Repeat in 2015
I like slow fashion and homegrown vintage. Here are some of my favorite old looks, re-worn in 2015. Whenever I wear my sex-ay Pilgrim dress by Donald Brooks Couture, I enjoy it so much that I wear it again almost immediately. I originally wore the dress in 2004 to the Committee to Protect Journalists awards…
What Wendy Wore: Style Forever by Alyson Walsh
My gorgeous British friend Alyson Walsh came to New York to celebrate the U.S. publication of her book Style Forever. We toasted her with Moet & Chandon Champagne at the Michele Varian shop in Soho. The subtitle of Aly’s book is “The Grown-Up Guide to Looking Fabulous,” and the guests lived up to it! I…
What Wendy Wore: The Pre-Halloween Ho Stroll
It’s been a long time since I’ve done the Halloween ho stroll, to borrow a phrase from the highlarious Michael K of Dlisted. I’m more likely to dress for the holiday as a non-sexy Anne Boleyn, Adam Ant, member of Devo, or random Mod girl. That said, I figured that for a drinks date on…
Musical Interlude: Madonna at Madison Square Garden
If you had told 1980s me that, in the distant future, I’d see Duran Duran once and Madonna twice in a single week, I would have been mind-blowingly happy … but not totally surprised. I always promised myself that when I graduated from high school, I’d move to New York, where I would find like-minded…
Throwback Thursday: McQueen Top, Now and Then
With only a few weeks before the start of the fall season, it’s time for me to make sure that all my summer clothes have gotten out and about. I hadn’t worn this Alexander McQueen top yet this year, so it got to go to dinner at the uptown Red Farm. (Good Chinese food; I…