Manolo says, this smashingly sophisticated, summer 2012, thong sandal from the Lanvin is now on the sale, selling for nearly 60% off of the regular price! Still costly, but the bargain for something so handsome.
It is the tossup, really
Manolo asks, who wore it better? Malevolent crone, or freakish-scary doll girl?
P.S. From the Red Carpet Fashion Awards
Manolo says, here are the few things which may occupy the pleasant minute or two…
Helen Keller is apparently a staple of China’s school curriculum – an exemplary figure that overcame her disabilities to make a mark – and a socialist to boot.
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With more than 150 stamps, this document confirms Colvin as the tireless reporter, always ready to board a plane headed for nowhere nice.
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The Fashionable Bureaucrat
Manolo says, from the same people who brought you the $1600 artfully ripped, surplus t-shrt comes the $5,500 rayon, tuxedo jumpsuit.
Your boyfriend, The Sheikh, will love it!
Ayyy! Made of 95% viscose, 2% elastane, 3% polyamide!
Almost as entertaining as the Veblen good, aspirational pricing, are the sizing descriptions at the Net-a-Porter.
Close fitting style, stretch finish
Those with a curvy figure may wish to take the next size up
Model is 177cm/ 5’10” and is wearing a FR size 36
The French size 36 = US size 4.
Your size 4 buttocks will look marvelous in this rayon catsuit.
Yes, yes, the peoples who can afford this do not care about the price, and the peoples who care about the price cannot afford this, but still, this is another of the Balmain pieces (as good looking as it is) that strikes the Manolo as overpriced for no apparent good reason except to maintain the façade of exclusivity.
Manolo says, the Manolo recently learned that the tickets for the TED Conferences–which produce the YouTubes of the obscure middle-brow “thinkers” and pop-media savants flattering the ricos–cost $7,500 per person!
Thus, upon learning this, the Manolo put together this Venn diagram of the average TED Conference attendee…
The intersection of wealth, self-satisfaction and inanity.
Manolo says, Monday? We do not need no stinking Mondays.
Give us Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays, and the occasional Thursdays. Wednesdays, if you must. But, emphatically, no Mondays! (As for Tuesdays, we are somewhat agnostic.)
Nothing good happens on those Mondays when you have to go back to work. Yes, you make like your job, or find it not intolerable, but even in such cases is still the great imposition to have to cease the pleasurable activities of the weekend and begin the less-than-pleasurable activities of the work week.
Less reclining in the hammock in the back yard, the copy of the pirate-based romance in hand, and more sitting at your cubicle working on things romantic pirates would have regarded as inessential to the daily romance of piracy.
Well, at the least, you can pirate the little bit of time from your villainous employer by looking at the shoes on the internet…
It is the metallic slingback bow sandals from Jean-Michel Cazabat, the exact sort of simple, romantic shoe you will want to be wearing when bare-chested Captain Hunkybreeches (who is terribly misunderstood by the authorities) captures your ship.