Manolo says, the Manolo he is clearly foresighted. From the Blogging the Project Runway comes news of the humorous television show.
BPR reader Bethanne has alerted us to this week’s episode of VH1’s ‘Best Week Ever” featuring a segment on what television would be like if Tim Gunn had his own network.
Of the course, as the readers of the Manolo know, the Manolo he proposed exactly this thing many weeks ago.
Manolo says, clearly the peoples who say you cannot dance in the shoes of the high heels have never heard of the Samba!
It isn’t surprising that shoes are an obsession with the beauties who grace Brazil’s Carnival parades — they’re generally the biggest things they wear below the neck.
Dancers at Carnival, the pre-Lenten bash that starts this weekend and ends on Ash Wednesday, say the higher the better for their towering heels, worn with soaring feathered head-dresses and little else but glittery patches, strategically placed.
Patches of strategic placement and Samba!
Dancers say the platform sandals, preferably with shiny straps and buckles that snake to the knee, help prevent them from tipping over and injuring their ankles while dancing the lightning-quick gyrations of the samba.
“Platforms are safer,” said Iris Sol, 28, a dancer for the drum section of the Barroca Zona Sul samba club in Sao Paulo.
“I’ve paraded with samba troupes since I was six, but the truth is that I was dancing samba when I was born,” she said.
From the very birth, Samba!
Sandals with platform heels push body weight onto the ball of the foot, where the samba is danced. Samba platforms go as high as 17 centimetres, or 6.6 inches. Heels are extra-wide.
“Platforms make women more beautiful, elegant and taller, with better posture. They help you stick out your chest and butt a bit,” said Magaly Santos, 22, Sao Paulo’s 2005 Carnival queen.
The culture of derrieres is so big in Brazil that GNT, a popular cable channel, produced a show about them in preparation for Carnival this year. Its title? “The National Passion.”
Big butts and Samba!
A display of samba sandals by Fernando Pires, who designs for top dancers, included eye-catching designs like swirls of red, yellow and orange leather resembling flames, and black heels topped with lanyards of fake diamonds and pink beaded jewels.
Carnival dancers put almond oil on their feet to prevent skin from cracking and splitting. But they say blisters are inevitable during hours of late night dancing to thundering drums.
“It hurts. You get blisters and feel pain but you samba a lot because you don’t want to stop,” said Michele Eleuterio, 20, of the samba troupe Unidos do Peruche.
You must sacrifice for Samba!
Everybody Samba! Samba! Samba!
Manolo says, this beautiful and classy shoe from Manolo’s friend the Beverly Feldman, it is perfect for dinner and dancing on the Saturday night of amusement with your dependable steady, the handsome man who still tickles your fancy.
Manolo says, ayyyyyy! The charming and funny Never teh Bride who runs the Manolo’s humble Bride Blog, she is running the small contest in which she is asking for the crazy stories about the weddings, and to the craziest/funniest/oddest stories she will be giving away the grab bag of the items from the soon-to-be-released new DVD of the Pride and Prejudice movie.
Such as this, the track of the sound.
Go tell the Never teh Bride your tale of wedding horror!
Manolo says, the Manolo he has been profiled by the Professor Norm! Here is the sample.
Can you name a major moral, political or intellectual issue on which you’ve ever changed your mind? >Previously, the Manolo, as the man of tradition, he was opposed to the wearing of the white shoes after the Labor Day. But now, he has decided that this tradition it is outmoded and not suited to the present. In the stead, the best rule it is, if the shoe looks good, the shoe it must be worn.
What philosophical thesis do you think it most important to disseminate? >
Everyone has the right to be super fantastic!
What philosophical thesis do you think it most important to combat? >
That beauty is the subjective, artificial construct. Indeed, it is not. Beauty and the appreciation of beauty they are part of the very essence of the human soul, and are indeed eternal verities.
Go read the whole profile.
Manolo says, the Carnivale of the Couture for the next week, it will be at the blog of the very witty Verbal Croquis. Here is the topic to be:
You are throwing a little dinner party in your apartment featuring fashion glitterati, past or present, dead or alive. You are only allowed to invite 5 people, so be careful in your selections. Feel free to include designers, style icons, journalists, models, moguls, intellectuals, you name it. Make your invite list, please share your reasons why you invited each person. Remember, every good hostess takes into consideration how their guests will mingle, so tell us about that too. For brownie points, tell us what they’re wearing, what you’ll wear and what you’ll serve, etc.
This it is the most amusing premise.
The schedule for the two weeks following this it is:
Week of Monday, March 6th - Counterfeit Chic
Week of Monday, March 13th - The Bag Snob
If you are the fashion blogger who would like to host the Carnivale and have not yet done so, please send the Manolo the email so that he may add your name to the list.
Manolo says, the Manolo’s most recent column for the Express of the Washington Post it is now available for the downloading. Today, it is the topic of crazy daredevils who will attempt to buy the wife the shoes.
Dear Manolo,
My wife and I will soon be celebrating our third wedding anniversary, a.k.a. the leather anniversary. Can you recommend super fantastic shoes I can buy for her?
Mike
Manolo says, the Manolo he has two reactions to his friend’s desire to buy his wife the perfect shoes.
Firstly, truly this is the young man deeply in love!
Secondly, Ayyyyyyy! Buying the perfect shoes for the wife? Abandon hope all ye who enter here! This way madness and disappointment lie!
Selecting the perfect shoes to be given as the gift is perhaps the most difficult task the Manolo can imagine.
Not only must the shoe be beautiful and luxurious, but the giver of the gift shoe must have the acute knowledge of the shape of the recipient’s foot and the sense of her personal style.
This it is why it is, in the opinion of the Manolo, it is better to pick out the fine leather handbag, perhaps from the Kate Spade or the Prada.
However, if the friend of the Manolo persists in the mad venture, the Manolo would suggest giving the shoes together with the reservation to the fanciest restaurant in the town, so that the potential crushing disappointment will be cushioned by the nice meal, and perhaps two or three bottles of the expensive wine.
Thus, with this in the mind, the Manolo suggests that the Iliad from the Michael Kors has the classic yet senusous line that few women could resist.
The final piece of advice, it is to buy the shoes at the place with the liberal policy of returns.
Manolo says, quick Robin! To the Manolo Mobile!
P.S. More pictures of the Manolo Mobile, Mark 2, here, here, and here in action. (Scroll down.)
P.P.S. The Manolo Mobile, Mark 1.
Manolo says, in the November, the Manolo posted the news that his internet friend the Debutaunt had been afflicted with the grave illness.
Here is the update from the sister of Debbie.
Dear Manolo,Just wanted to let you know an update on my sister at www.debutaunt.com. She is going to be getting her blood stem cell transplant on Monday. Right now, the Debu is already admitted to the hospital to get the preparatory treatment—radiation and chemo. The blood stem cell transplant is not an easy process to go through but it gives the best hope to thousands of people, including my sister.
Though going through a transplant is not terribly fun, we learned something that we didn’t know previously—that the donation process is pretty easy. People think of donating blood stem cells as being very painful, and the old way of doing it was certainly not comfortable. But the new technology does not involve an operation into the bone marrow, rather, they just take extra stem cells out of the donors’ blood—kind of like giving platelets.
My sister was fortunate that she had a match in my brother. But there are thousands of people who are not that lucky and rely on the National Marrow Donor Program to find a match. Here is information on how to join it: http://www.marrow.org/HELP/join_the_registry.html .
Anyhow, with the transplant, the Debu is going to be in the hospital for 20-40 more days and is already bored as heck. As her hospital fashion statement, she rejects hospital gowns as being too immodest and ugly, and favors Nick and Nora pajamas (Target now carries them—they are the most genius company). She has the internets in her hospital room, and it has been a lifesaver to be able to visit her internet friends. So if you would like to visit, I am sure she would adore it.
Buona giornata!
Steph
Once again the Manolo implores his many readers to send the prayers and the positive thoughts toward the Debutaunt so that she may be restored to the health.
