OCT
2012 25

Multiple Choice Time: Dolce & Gabbana

I’m going to Italy with two pairs of shoes. Talk about a tough decision. I mean, it’s Italy. That’s where the shoes were BORN. Selecting one pair of flats and one of heels was like Sophie’s Choice, except you can always have more kids, but Miu Miu only made those vernice slingbacks one season. As much as I’d like to traipse around the cobblestones of Italia in my most precarious heels, it’s not going to happen. You need to be either a billy goat or an Italian woman to carry that off and since I am neither (although I do…

OCT
2010 28

Dolce & Gabbana Calf-Hair Leopard Knee Boots for the Pumpkin Patch

Manolo says, finally, after much wishing your part, that broad-shouldered man with the cornflower-blue eyes and the curly hair has asked you to accompany him on the outing to the rural pumpkin patch with this three nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie (or so you imagine them). But, although you have the high-end blue jeans, the rustic-fabulous sweater, and your trusty Barbour coat all picked out and ready to go, you realize that this combination, while perfectly appropriate, is perhaps too muted. You must complete the outfit with feetwear that are both practical and capable of expressing your inner diva. The…

AUG
2010 18

Dolce & Gabanna and the Big Cats

Manolo says, Meow! Two Leopards And the Ocelot!

FEB
2010 16

Bright Colors for to Hasten the Arrival of Spring

Manolo says, winter, winter go away, bring the Manolo the fine spring day! So that he may see these shoes on the feets of his friends. The Kayla from Elizabeth and James in bright multi-snake yellow-yellow-yellow. The Lacross from Stuart Weitzman in sea patent aniline blue-blue-blue. The Estelle Wedge from the Dolce and the Gabbana in kelly-esque, sorta-MG-racing greeny-greeny-green. And now, this is the time on the Shoe Blogs when the Manolo dances!

OCT
2009 14

Suede Butterflies from Dolce & Gabbana

Manolo says, this beautifully wonderful D&G butterfly-encrusted shoe is the marvelous example of how the designer can take the basic suede black pump and move it from the mundane to the super fantastic!

MAR
2008 27

Delicate Shoes of Great Cost

Manolo says, the Manolo’s friend Linda Grant has recently purchased these Dolce & Gabbana shoes (in black patent), which sadly, have not withstood the test of (short) time and London streets. I mentioned last week that I had bought a pair of Dolce & Gabbana shoes. I wore them for the first time on Thursday. When I got home the leather on the soles was pitted and worn away. I was going to take them back to Harvey Nichols for a refund but first went into my excellent local shoe repairers for an opinion. They told me that the shoes…

FEB
2008 26

Dolce and Gabbana for the Spring

Manolo says, the Manolo commends to you these marvelous white and navy peep-toe pumps from the Dolce and the Gabbana. Are they not beautiful? What’s that you say, “But Manolo, it is not yet the summer time. I cannot possibly wear the white shoes before the Day of Memorializing.” Ha! The Manolo scoffs as such fashion timidity. Are you not the confident, super fantastic, adult person, one who is fully capable of charting her own way in the world? Indeed, you are fashionable woman, hear you roar! Do not worry what the petty arbiters of outmoded fashion standards say, this…

JAN
2008 22

Dolce & Gabbana Patchwork Ankle Strap Sandal

Manolo says, this sandal from the Dolce and the Gabbana is sort of item that rides the very thin line between utterly tacky and completely stunning, and for that reason the Manolo loves it! For as we know, the true fashion is found on the border between the classic and the trashy.

DEC
2007 17

Holiday Shoes 2007, IV

Manolo says, here are the beautiful Dolce and the Gabbana golden peep toe pumps, perfect for the most festive of holiday events not involving Santa-intoxicated children and mountains of tattered wrapping paper.

SEP
2007 14

Dolce and Gabbana for the Weekend

Manolo says, it is Friday, and what better way to celebrate being the Disco Queen of Suburbia than with the exuberantly purple, metallic, platform peep toes from the Dolce and the Gabbana?

MAY
2007 25

Kylie Minogue And The Dolce & Gabbana Lucite Platforms

Manolo says, the Manolo is of two minds about the shoes. On the one of the hands, they are compelling and baroque, on the other they are slightly ridiculous. However, despite this confusion, the Manolo does know that if the Kylie Minoque wishes to wear these shoes, she needs to pair them with something simple and elegant, something not as underwear-flashing busy-trashy.

APR
2007 03

Dolce & Gabbana Silver Spring

Manolo says, surprisingly, the metallics are still in, but this year, it is the silver that is hottest, and you could not do much better than this silverly slingback from the Dolce and the Gabbana.