What Wendy Wore: Met Gala Fashion Statement
I haven't dressed up since New Year's Eve 2020, so it felt great to squeeze into a vintage Arnold Scaasi dress and go to tonight's celebrity-packed Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of...
View ArticleFlashback: The Best Day of 2020
One year ago today, I posed at the fence that the former guy had built around the White House to keep protestors at a distance. "Fuck Your Fence" photo by George De Castro Day. I was still feeling the...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Looking Like Liza
Liza Minnelli's appearance at the Oscars last month reminded me that I have a personal “Never Is the Next New Thing™” situation to report. I usually apply “Never Is the Next New Thing™” to fashion...
View ArticleJewel of the Month: Empress Wu for Earth Day
Today is Earth Day, marking the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. I do love a theme, so let's contemplate my Empress Wu dragon ring with its spinning lapis lazuli...
View ArticleBuy Keith Richards a Birthday Card
I was sorting some laundry today and the date on the back of a t-shirt jumped out at me. Wait! December 13, 2012?! I thought, "OMG! Did I see the Rolling Stones exactly 10 years ago today?!" Here's...
View ArticleMontreal Memories, Part I
After publishing my last post, I felt weird about it being Fled Cruz that made me want to flee the country this year. I thought for a second, "Oh no, am I as bad as Fled? Running away when the going...
View ArticleA Festivus (and Activist) Birthday
It was only a few years ago that I realized there was a firm date for Festivus -- the anti-holiday holiday popularized by Seinfeld in 1997. Previously, I thought Festivus floated around the Gregorian...
View Article2022 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part I
This week, I decided to look up my 2021 "year in review" posts and was shocked -- not Casablanca-style fake SHOCKED but genuinely SHOOK -- to discover I didn't write any for the first time since 2011....
View Article2022 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part II
Missed Part I of my personal fashion year in review? Here it is! Now I'll pick up where I left off, which was August 2022, for which I have ... nothing. Somehow I celebrated MrB's 80th birthday with...
View ArticleWhat Wendy Wore: Black & White
It's been a long time since I did an outfit post, but glimpsing my all-time favorite supermodel, Linda Evangelista, gave me some fashion-blogging inspiration. Linda Evangelista at Bookmarc Linda was...
View Article2023 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part 1
I've always been interested in the story-telling aspect of fashion -- on the societal level as well as the personal one. As I debated whether or not to write one of my old-school "What Wendy Wore"...
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