Manolo says, perhaps not as amusing as the Manolo’s Gallery of the Horrors, but this short article in the New York Magazine is important nonetheless.
Let us devoutly hope that the author is wrong about the next big ugly shoe trend…
Salt-Water Sandals worn proudly by adult persons!
Which is, of the course, yet more evidence of the continuing infantilization of Americans.
Jemaine says, we’d be getting crazy if one of us was lucky enough to be born a lady.
Manolo says, the Manolo’s dear internet friends at the Bag Snob have reported the case of the public relations person who became abusive when the blogger did not do what was desired.
We weren’t going to do an editorial on this bag line but have received over a dozen crazy harassment emails from the PR girl representing them so we decided to put it out there so you can stay clear of this line of horribly made and very cheap bags. Kelly first received an email two months ago from Zina Eva’s rep asking to participate in our monthly bag giveaway but after receiving the samples this weekend we decided the bags were not up to Bag Snob par and we couldn’t possibly endorse it let alone give it to our readers. […]
We promptly contacted them and told them we’d return the bags and will not be able to include them in our monthly giveaway but the PR girl turned nasty and started sending us harassment emails with racist overtones. Let’s see, she accused us of using fake last names because our names are English/European yet we don’t look European (Basically non-white people are not allowed to have European surnames according to this genius PR girl) and then she accused us of trying to scam them of $150 (wholesale price) bags?!?!??! How is it a scam if we didn’t want to keep the hideous bags for our giveaway?
This is outrageous behavior, and as counter-productive as anything the Manolo has ever heard of. The P.R. person who sent these emails and her firm should be named and denounced publicly.
No blogger, no person, should ever have to tolerate this sort of abuse for giving his or her honest opinion about the shoddy product.
In fact, once this person and her firm are named, you may be certain that the Manolo will never, ever respond to any press release or email from this firm, and he would suggest that other fashion bloggers likewise boycott them, at least until the most public and groveling sort of apology is issued.
Manolo says, already there are many good entries in this week’s manifestation of the Build the Outfit contest, featuring these marvelous Enzo Angiolini boots.
Of the course, it is not at all too late to enter, indeed it is still early, as the contest will continue until Saturday, at which point the Manolo will pick the winner and award the $100 gift certificate from Zappos.
But, even if you do not enter, you must go now to the Manolo’s Super Fantastic Forums look at those entries which have already been submitted. You will see that the many of the Manolo’s internet friends are as talented as any professional stylist now working.
