JUN
2007
08

Backlash

Manolo says, the fashion bloggers are in revolt! Look at this from the Manolo’s internet friend Joanne at the Second City Style I quit. I’m finished. Kaput. After this column there will be no more: my days of writing about “celebrity” designers are finished. Whether it’s Victoria Beckam, J.Lo or Amanda Bynes, I’m tired of promoting celebrity over style, and making fashion synonymous with a cause celeb. I refuse to be part of any contemporary Emperor’s entourage who says s/he can be confused with a designer, or literally h/er “new clothes.” […] No, this is not the phenomenon I’m taking…

JUN
2007
08

2007, The Year of the Fetish Shoe!

Manolo says, here from the Daily Mail is that saucy trollop the Victoria “Posh” Beckham wearing the ridiculous and dangerous looking spikey shoes. And thus, with this picture, the Manolo now officially declares 2007, The Year of the Fetish Shoe. Forget for now the beautiful, elegant, and stylish shoes, and wear only those shoes which emphatically say to the public “the wearer of these shoes may be hired to satisfy your more outré desires.” Five and the half inch stiletto heels? The height of fashion! Weird dominatrix boots? Wear them to the red carpet! Bizarre and clunky pony-play platforms ?…

JUN
2007
08

Manolo the Columnist

Manolo says here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post. Dear Manolo, I’m about to have lunch with an ex I haven’t seen in fifteen years. Since I last saw him, I’ve come into my own, started a successful business, and have learned how to dress well. I’m thinking of wearing a cute, floaty, little black skirt, something that would work for lunch and a stroll in the park afterwards. What should I wear on my feet? Nora Manolo says, here is one of the surprisingly common problems of the modern age, how to induce…