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Manolo shouts, Work It, Strain GFAJ-1! P.S. Yegor Zaitsev! P.P.S. Smorzhoplivanie!
Manolo shouts, Work It, Strain GFAJ-1! P.S. Yegor Zaitsev! P.P.S. Smorzhoplivanie!
N.B. In honor of the Manolo’s six years of shoeblogging, the Manolo has decided to repost this week some of his favorite pieces. Here are two pieces in which the Manolo celebrated the fashion industry of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The first is from July 24th, 2006. Manolo says, Ayyyyy! It is the fashion week in Iran! High production values! Very figure flattering, that. She has got the Bette Davis eyes! ** Below is the second part of the “Fashion Week Tehran” series, from January 19th, 2007.
Manolo says, your mission, Ms. Vionnet, should you decide to accept it, is to embarrass the middle aged starlet using only the dinner napkin and the plastic bin liner.
Manolo says, like the shoe-shaped Bat Signal, the plaintive cry went out from deep within the blogosphere, “Manolo, please explain to us this picture of Sarah Jessica Parker, as it has vexed us mightily.” Although the Manolo’s good friend Linda Grant would likely refer to this picture as “mutton dressed as lamb,” the Manolo would prefer to call it “The Rose in Autumn…Late Autumn.” On the one of the hands, Sarah Jessica Parker looks as good as she possibly can: fit, happy, perhaps the too much eye makeup, and the too little powder, but otherwise vibrantly alive and shining with…
Manolo says, the peoples of Shanghai, they have surpassed the Americans in the race to ultimate in slovenly casualness.. ONE hundred thousand fireworks lighted the sky over Shanghai on April 30, marking the grand opening of the 2010 World Expo. For the city’s many pajama wearers, it also signified the start of a nightmare. After pumping $58 billion into staging this mega-event, which is expected to attract more than 70 million visitors over the next six months, city authorities started a campaign to suppress one of Shanghai’s most distinctive customs: wearing pajamas in public. Just as Beijing discouraged men from…
Manolo says, as if more proof is needed that the loathsome poncho is coming back into the fashion… Do not be Kim Kardashian. Do not wear the poncho.
Manolo says, this morning, the Manolo’s twitter feed is alive with the sound of horror, as various internet friends complain about the return of the fashion poncho. How soon the world forgets! Here, from March 9th, 2005 is the Manolo’s No Poncho Pledge… ********** Manolo says, it looks like something the carefully groomed, pedigreed siamese had dragged in. Manolo says, the Manolo he thought he had buried the poncho this most unattractive of the fashions. But now, thanks to the Martha, it is again rising from the grave! Formerly, the Manolo he had regarded the poncho as merely the benign…
Manolo says, frankly, the latest crop of Russian super models leaves something to be desired. P.S. What sort of designer would think this is the good idea?
Manolo says, it is the look on her face that really sells it. The designer eyepatch, circa 2005, circa 2007.
Manolo says, some things work on almost anyone. Some things only work on the skinny models. Some things work on no one.
Manolo asks, when did Kate Hudson turn into the hardened, 53-year-old divorcée?
N.B. Guest post by Steven Cojocaru. Read more at Cojo’s blog CojoStyle. Jessica: no, no, no, no, no!!! Forget Ken Paves, I’m the one who tosses and turns in my California King bed all night thinking about how to ‘save’ you from yourself. You know my family once tried to ‘change me’ and sent me to Outer Mongolia to live with monks. I turned quite a few monks over to my fab team, but that’s a different story. I have found some adorable gay monks who will take you in and burn that ill-fitting boob-spilling, optical illusion dress. That dress…