Name That Shoe
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Manolo says, the Manolo’s internet friend Mizz Tissa has challenged us to Name That Shoe!
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Mr. Henry in London
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Manolo says, Mr Henry shares with us the manifest delights of London.
A sinuous, undulating woman with blond dredlocks danced erotically with a shiny hula hoop. Propriety prevented Mr. Henry from enjoying the full performance, however, propriety and a glance from Mrs. Henry.
You must go and read the whole thing.
Thank Goodness for Velcro…
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Manolo says, otherwise it would take hours to get into and out of these very costly, old-school Dolce & Gabanna gladiator sandals.
Yes, they may not be the most subtle expression of the Neo-Classical trend, but they are not entirely without their artless charm.
Words of Wisdom
Monday, June 9th, 2008Manolo says, the Manolo’s friend Twistie has wise words of wisdom for those who are obsessed with battling the bulge.
I know once I stopped worrying about dieting, I thought more about taking care of the people around me. I thought more about making art, music, and laughter in my home. Everybody relaxed more. Until that happened, I hadn’t realized how much time I was wasting on thinking about not eating food, or what it was doing to my personality.
The Breakfast of Henries
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Manolo says, Mr. Henry has made the Manolo laugh first thing in the morning.
Mother Henry is approaching her 77th birthday and charges around town like Hillary Clinton on energy drink. Recently she shared an unusual dietary secret. She starts her day with spinach.
You must go read the whole thing.
The Fab Crush Interview
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Manolo says, the kind peoples at the Fab Crush blog have done the short interview with the Manolo. Here is the excerpt.
We like Manolo’s Gallery of The Horrors. If he had to choose one of the worst Shoe Crimes, which one would it be?The Croc; with out the doubt , the Croc. It represents all that is evil about the modern world; the ugly, cheap plastic object that infantilizes the wearer and abuses the eyes of the beholder. They are peasant clown shoes, for clownish peasants.
Naturally, you must go read all of this.
The Manolo Week in Review
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Manolo says, here is the best of the previous week from the Manolosphere.
¿Se imaginan a Christian Louboutin tocando la guitarra y desgarrándose en un escenario como Ozzy Osbourne o Iggy Pop?
At these prices, Mr. Henry doesn’t feel that to expect one decent meal is asking too much. It’s an amusement park, after all. When you are hungry, you are rarely amused.
A una amante del calzado, denle uds una pasarela para escudriñar, repasar, mirar, admirar….y encontrará curiosidades varias, como las que he ido mostrando desde que finalizaron las Pasarelas para el Otoño Invierno 2008/09.
Who’s Milking the Frog?
I was filled with loathing at the idea of someone else buying my skirt before I had the chance to strap on William Shatner (there’s a sentence I never expected to get paid for. WS is, of course, the name of my corset) and see if the thing would zip up once I moved my innards around.
Guess what they got Hugh Hefner for his 82nd birthday?
Ultimately the best thing to do is stand up tall and remember that no one cares that you have love handles as much as you do!
There are many, many soccer moms around here, and I know exactly what they are like.
Welcome to Cthulhu-ville, where the overlords are unspeakable, the architecture is non-Euclidean and the natives are eldritch.
I was pretending to work on various projects on the day in question when I heard the unmistakable sound of a largish truck backing into my driveway.
These otherwise normal Hugo Boss dress shoes should make quite the aural statement.
Tal vez sean los genes y el inevitable factor de ser hija de una gran diva e ícono de la moda, Jane Birkin.
The Manolo Week in Review
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Manolo says, here is the best of the week from the Manolosphere.
Remember Tang? It’s what we had before we had SunnyD. Old people remember Tang, and the thing we remember best about it is that the astronauts had Tang in their space ships, and so we wanted it.
La primera vez que los ví no fueron de mis favoritos, recuerdo que desde el principio los llamé “andamios” porque su tacón me recordaba a esas estructuras que hay en el exterior de los edificios y creo que ha fuerza de verlos decidí cogerles cariño y hasta decir ¡Qué bonitos!
Walt Disney World is America’s #1 tourist destination – a vast Orwellian shining city in the swamp brimming with bratty English schoolchildren spitting insults at cowed, permissive parents, with tattooed teenagers trying desperately to pretend they aren’t walking beside uncool parents, and with grinning sunburned, foot-weary pilgrims of pleasure plodding on and on and on.
There is all this hand-wringing about how computers and video games are ruining our kids, but my son loves nothing more than playing in the mud. I wish I was kidding.
I was in my twenties when I first heard of wedding planners. My first thought was ‘what a ridiculous idea!’ because it never occurred to me that anyone would need someone to tell them how to get married.
The pickup skirt is “in” these days among many designers.
Last night as I was glamorously soaking my feet in my equally glamorous beige Rubbermaid dishtub full of epsom-salted water and rose oil (ignore the old-folk associations, epsom salt soaks are brilliant)…
Despite all the attention and service being lavished on him, why does Quentin Tarantino look so unimpressed at his joint birthday bash with Fergie?
Es mil veces más chic llevar un Marc Jacobs (de carne y hueso) que un chihuahua
If you, like me, have more books than you know what to do with but aren’t willing to donate them to a books for teachers program, then you may just have more than a passing interest in bookshelves.
Robert Redford costumed himself as an old-fashioned school teacher…
Los amantes del trabajo de Scott Schuman, mejor conocido como The Sartorialist, podrán satisfacer sus bajas pasiones y placeres culpables con el suplemento especial dedicado a las modelos dentro de la majestuosa niña mimada de Carine Roitfeld, VOGUE París.
