Excellent Advice!

Manolo says, if you, like the Manolo, are someone who loves the eBay you should read this from the Manolo’s internet friend the Cranky Biscuit.

Think that Louis Vuitton purse from that powerseller is authentic because they have a high feedback rating? Think again. Just because a seller has 500 feedback, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are trustworthy. Some unscrupulous sellers will sell hundreds of $.05 recipes (usually as private auctions) to get a high feedback rating, and then use that rating to sell fake designer handbags. They can also use this tactic to bury negative feedback from the buyers they fleeced, since they know that many potential buyers will look through the first few pages of feedback, but will probably not bother to wade through everything to find the negative ratings.

There is more! Go read it all.

JUN
2005
10

Ride with the Devil

Manolo says, the Manolo he has blogged about the ridiculous diet book of the Evil One in the recent past, however, several of the Manolo’s internet friends have mailed him the link to this article in the Slate about the book.

The article by the Amanda Fortini, it is funny and worth the reading. However, for the Manolo, far better than the article is this picture of the fat Karl Lagerfeld it contained.

Manolo says, look at this, it is tragic, no?

Here is the fat, happy-but-crazy Karl Lagerfeld, smiling at us like the Sergant Schultz from the Hogan’s Heroes, wanting nothing more than the bratwurst and the pastries, and perhaps to destroy the House of Chanel with his clothing designs.

Obviously, this picture it is from before the Lagerfeld he made is infamous pact with El Diablo.

Now, the question for the Manolo, it is should the Faust/Lagerfeld be pitied, or despised?

JUN
2005
10

The Shoes in the Field

Manolo says, the Wall of the Shoes, it has inspired another of the Manolo’s many internet friends to send him the link to the super fantastic exhibit of shoes at the Field Musuem in the Chicago.

JUN
2005
10

Spinning in his Grave

Manolo says, this picture of the Lisa Marie and her mother, the Cruella De Ville, it frightens the Manolo.

JUN
2005
10

The Wall of Shoes

Manolo says, one of the Manolo’s many internet friends has sent the Manolo a link to a picture of the wall of shoes.

I visited The Vintage Couture Show at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI today, and I thought about you as I viewed The Fab Shoes of the Elizabeth Parke Firestone, the wife of a wealthy industrialist who loved couture. An entire wall was filled with her shoe collection, and it was breathtaking. I posted a picture of the shoe wall on Flickr, and I thought you might like to see it.

Here is this super fantastic picture.