APR
2011
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They Named That Shoe WHAT?!?

N.B. Our friend, the witty and oh-so-smart Nancy Friedman, is back! “A shoe is more than a shoe,” the designer Maud Frizon once rhapsodized. “It is movement and repose; it is human contact with the earth.” Oh, those shoe designers. They do get a little carried away. What else could account for the giddy names they often bestow on their creations? Not all of them, of course. As I explained in my previous post about shoe names, some shoe brands follow logical naming formulas, using the first letter of a shoe’s name to identify its last (the shape on which…

APR
2011
21

Whose Shoes Wednesday…The Answer!

Manolo asked, whose shoes? Manolo answers… As the Manolo said, this has turned out to be one of the most interesting and difficult Whose Shoes Wednesday challenges ever. It is perhaps not surprising that no one identified this week’s celebrity of note, as we do not think of Bianca Jagger as being the comfort shoe lady, but that is what she has become. Like many of us, she has tragically developed the bad feet.