Manolo's Shoe Blog

FEB
2015 14

The Bones of the San Valentine

Manolo says, many happy returns for the Día de San Valentín! May your day be filled with joy and chocolate hearts and trinkets made of pure love (and diamonds)! And now, let us not forget the reason for the season… Yes, those are indeed the boney remains of the San Valentín, or at the least one of the many relics that are claimed to exist. This nearly complete set of bones, which is one of the lesser known, is in the Real Iglesia de San Anton, on the Calle Horteleza, very near to the place where the tiny Manolo first…

JUL
2014 31

Manolo the Columnist: Audrey Glitter Sandals from Christian Louboutin

Manolo says, here is the Manolo’s latest column for the Express of the Washington Post. Dear Manolo, In three weeks, I’m turning 40 years old. Oddly, I’m not yet upset about passing this major milestone. although, I am worried that it’ll feel bad on the big day itself. To forestall that can you please suggest some party shoes for the big day. My husband is planning a evening dinner with friends at a nice restaurant, so something that will go with my little black dress. Stephanie Manolo says, do not despair, it is true what everyone is saying, 40 is…

FEB
2014 25

Manolo the Columnist: Laurance Cage Sandals from Christians Louboutin

Dear Manolo, Not only is weather here abominable, but worse my boyfriend won’t be able to get back from Atlanta in time for Valentine’s Day. Can you please, please suggest some shoes that will cheer me up. Monica Manolo says, just the mere two weeks ago, the Manolo was mocking the apocalyptic prognostications of the weather people, and now, ayyyyy! The real Snowpocalypse his finally here! And now, the Manolo is regretting his insouciance. Although, one must admit that it that the current situation is very much like the fairy tale of the Weatherboy who cried Winter Storm Wolf. If…

OCT
2012 09

It’s a Look

to quote our dear friend Thombeau…but is it enough? This ever-subtle wedge comes from that master of the understatement, Christian Louboutin. Somewhere in Shepherd’s Bush Holland Park, Edina Monsoon is missing a hoof cover.

JUL
2012 05

Cinderella. Louboutin. Cinderella by Louboutin!

Manolo says, Ayyyyyy! Finally, the fairy tale has come true!

JUN
2012 22

Christian Louboutin Icone Translucent Sandals for the Friday Night

Manolo says, it is Friday and you are saying to yourself, “Huzzah! The weekend, she is here,” even though, technically, the weekend, she is not here, as you still have several hours of paid drudgery left to perform. Still, what is required at this very moment is the little day dreaming, something to take you away from that which is oppressive and dull, to the glittering imaginary place where you are the Queen of the May! And, what better imaginary coronation garb for your regal feets than the Icone Translucent Studded Sandals from the Christian Louboutin? Ayyyy! So beautiful! So…

JUN
2012 15

Christian Louboutin Troisronds Platform Sandals for the Weekend

Manolo says, it is the TGI Friday. Time to cut loose, cut up, and cut out early from the place of employment, the better to get home to tart yourself up for the fantastic night of Friday evening fun. But first, before you leave the desk, one last look at what the Shoebloggering Manolo is up to, because, the Lord knows, when you get home you will not have the time to look at the computer, what with all of the demands placed upon you by your extensive regime de toilette. (Ayyy! Just getting into the foundation garments will take…

NOV
2011 10

Christian Louboutin at One Dollar Per The Week

Manolo says, here is the article to be filed under the heading, Super Models Say the Darnedest Things. “They make me feel like a woman. I feel they make you look very sexy, the cuts are beautiful, the lines, the colors the embellishments,” Huntington-Whiteley gushed to FOX411’s Pop Tarts column at the Christian Louboutin’s book launch at Barney’s in Beverly Hills last week. “I think he managed to capture something so special for women, every girl should be lucky enough to have them.” Yet amid this cash-strapped economy, the British supermodel has some words of wisdom for women pining for…

SEP
2011 12

Splash Peep-Toe Pumps from the Christian Louboutin for the Monday

Manolo says, it is Monday and you are back at your desk, and already the Summer of 2011 is fading into the rearview mirror of your life, growing smaller with each passing second. Of the course, given what the Summer of 2011 was like, this is not necessarily the bad thing. Indeed, if you could, you would jam your foot down onto the accelerator of the life-mobile, spewing gravel and little chips of asphalt into the face of the Summer of 2011, as you sped away. But you cannot. The great tragedy is that life is not the car your…

JUL
2011 07

Louboutin Measuring Tape Sandal

Manolo says, the Manolo is greatly amused by the visual wit of this Christian Louboutin sandal…très amusant, no?

JUN
2011 06

Christian Louboutin Ana Strass Crystal Sandals for the Monday

Manolo says, it is Monday and you are back at your desk wishing that you had managed to make the first two weeks of June your vacation, rather than the last two weeks of July. You need the break, because a) it has been the powerfully awful month or so at your place of employment, what with the off-laying of various low-level employees and the added work which has been piled upon you as the result, and b) because the school year has ended for your children, and your 12-year-old son and your 15-year-old daughter are at the home, alone,…

APR
2011 02

A Louboutin Love Affair

N.B. Today, the Manolo’s young friend Abigail Wilder Boatwright tells us about buying her first pair of the Louboutins. I can’t remember when I fell in love with Louboutins. I know I was in college when I first began to notice them, on celebrities and in magazine spreads, and I know that I immediately had to have them. I just didn’t have the funds, so I spent a lot of time looking at them in magazines. Of course, every chance I got, I tried on Loubies at department stores. Although, when I was planning my wedding, I decided not to…