Manolo says, all of this Galliano-based agita is making the Manolo want to go to his happy place…. In the Manolo’s Land of the Beautiful Shoes, it is always sunny and the people are always kind and considerate of others. And some of the most stylish ladies will be wearing the Paige Mesh Sandals from Loeffler Randall in nude, and others in the zebra.
Manolo says, the Manolo’s friend Linda Grant has written the consideration of the scandale Galliano for today’s Guardian in which she determines it is all about the transgression. According to fashion journalist Melanie Rickey, of the Fashion Editor at Large blog and Grazia, for years the industry has pushed Galliano to greater and greater extremes: “All everyone has ever wanted from John is transgressive fashion, and to use his excessive ideas to sell nice handbags and perfumes,” she says. And once you are set on a path to break taboos, it is almost impossible to find new ideas. So how…
Manolo says, you know it was the boring Academy Awards when the best thing the Manolo can find to criticize is the facial hair of the uber-masculine, super-heterosexual, manly-man-who-broke-the-formerly-virginal-Taylor-Swift’s-heart-with-his-high-testosterone-levels Jake Gyllenhaal.
Manolo says, this past week the FN Shoe Star unveiled the first challenge for the six contestants. In this challenge, they were introduced to the designer Rebecca Taylor, shown her latest collection, and then given ten minutes to sketch the shoe for that collection. Now, although there is no video for this week, the FN Shoe Star peoples are running the contest for the fans of the series to pick the best of these sketches and possibly win the $250 gift certificate from the Shoes.com. In general, the quality of the sketches was not bad, although the Manolo would have…
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