Pedro Garcia for the Monday
Manolo says, it is again Monday, and you woke up filled with indignation at the dreary, narrow-minded, Croc-wearing peoples who would ruin your extravagant shoe-based fun. Who are they to suggest that the purchase and enjoyment of $500 shoes is in any way immoral?
Bah!
Ayyyy! Pedro Garcia Jeweled Buckle d’Orsay shoes!
One look at these, and all is again right with the world, and the nattering nay-sayers in their peasant shoes are recognized as insignificant distractions from essential things, such as beauty and truth, and the truth in beauty.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Ah, it appears the Manolo wasn’t really all that chastened!
Indeed, as I have said here before, it’s tough not to love the Manolo just a little more each day. (So why try?)
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:09 am
I heart you, Manolo!
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:37 am
Those shoes are absolutely lovely.
I, too, wondered how chastened you really were. What I find heartening is I know, one day, you’ll post some superfantastic shoes one Monday, and ma2one will show up with all her great vengeance and furious anger…and she will absolutely, positively, have to have them, even if they cost $800 and take food from the mouth of her (undoubtedly) lovely child, who, sadly, will have already had his toes ripped off from wearing crocs on an escalator.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:58 am
Ah Manolo, you do brighten this miserably wet, grey, Canadian West Coast winter Monday. In the middle of all this snow-turning-to-slush-under-the-onslaught-of-wind-and-rain, the beautiful, beautiful shoes!
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
I never believed the Manolo had backed down from his position. And those are lovely, lovely shoes! Thank you so much for sharing them with us. Now, if I could find the money ….
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
I feel all better now!
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:13 pm
LOL, Victor :)
I love the brown pair!
December 3rd, 2007 at 2:29 pm
I will take 2 pairs please. One for the garden(brown I’m thinking…)and red for smashing the crocs! Woo hoo it’s Monday!
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Lovely stiletto heels - the perfect diameter for stabbling through the holes of Crocs! Where is your comfort now, peasant!
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:13 pm
“Where is your comfort now, peasant!”
K2, you crack me up! :)
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Not even $500! Ha! I don’t buy cheap shoes.
[ducking]
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Those are indeed beautiful, and it is right and good that they be celebrated as such; that they cost money is beside the point. I just like to look at them on a dreary Monday (yes, especially the brown ones; if I put them with a caramel silk dress, who could resist me?).
Wasn’t it George Bernard Shaw who said, “A true artist will kill his own grandmother for the sake of his art. The Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies!”
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Why the hell would I window shop at a blog celebrating things I COULD afford? Those shoes I don’t need to admire on the internet; they’re strapped to my feet.
There is one point about Crocs I’d like to make that I do not think has been mentioned yet; there’s often an idea that Crocs are an economical choice because of the pricetag on the shoes. However, putting aside the issue of longevity, I do not think Crocs are a practical shoe because they encourage event-specific shoe consumption. Crazy people aside, most realize there are events where Crocs are not appropriate, yet comfort is still required. So rather than buying one well-made, always appropriate pair of good shoes you’re sacrificing quality for closet-clogging quantity.
I’d love to see the Manolo’s recommendation for a stylish, well-made Croc alternative. Preferably with only two digits in the pricetag…then we have ammo for the haters.
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Here here Sarah! I would most enjoy seeing the Manolo’s picks for economical Croc alternatives
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I love the Manolo, who recommends such beautiful shoes, for this is the overflow of the beauty and truth in the Manolo! *muak!*
December 4th, 2007 at 2:48 am
wow. those are some beautiful shoes. whenever shall i meet the benefactor who will buy them for my precious piggies?
December 4th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
What beautiful objects!