FEB
2008 28

Antonio Bernardi Sans-a-Heel Platforms

Manolo says, the Manolo does not approve. The 5 1/2in creations by Briton Antonio Berardi can hardly be described as high heels, since they lack the most important part – a heel. For the bargain price of Â£1,800, the wearer will get to totter around with all her weight balanced on a thickened platform sole. Unsurprisingly, fashionistas are jostling to buy a pair. Stars including Gwyneth Paltrow and Uma Thurman invested in a black patent version costing more than Â£1,100, shortly after they were unveiled in Berardi’s spring/summer collection in Paris. And Victoria Beckham apparently has a snakeskin pair. They…

OCT
2007 08

At Some Point They Become Stilts

Manolo says, there is only one person who would wear such ridiculous feetwear. Answer below the jump.

OCT
2007 04

Manish Arora, Spring-Summer 2008

Manolo says, exuberant, ridiculous color is in!

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?

AUG
2007 16

The Dipwit

Manolo says, this platform peep-toe pump from Stuart Weitzman is not unattractive, indeed, it has much to recommend it. Unfortunately, this does not include the name.. But, as the readers of the Monolo know, the shoe designers sometimes go off the rails when naming their shoes.

JUL
2007 14

Whose Shoes, Weekend Edition

Manolo asks, whose shoes? When the Manolo saw the picture in this morning’s news feed, he immediately knew who it was, as only one person insists on wearing such over-the-top-shoes at any opportunity, however inappropriate, or whatever the cost in personal foot pain.

JUN
2007 12

The Disco Scream

Manolo says, five-and-the-half inches of mirrored ugly, and exactly the antithesis of the qualities the Manolo was praising yesterday. P.S. Many thanks to the Manolo’s friend Lindsey, who notes that they look bad even on the model.

MAY
2007 14

Build the Outfit

Manolo says, today, in honor of his new forums, the Manolo is starting the new game: Build the Outfit. The Manolo gives you the shoes, and you tell him what you would wear with these almost-but-not-quite tacky platform shoes from the Giuseppe Zanotti. In order to participate you must register at the Manolo’s new Super Fantastic Forums and leave your reply in this thread. On Friday afternoon, the Manolo will randomly pick the winner from among the participants and give them the $100 Zappos gift certificate!

MAY
2007 09

Roberto Cavalli, Lack of Restraint

Here you see the two pairs of shoes from the Roberto Cavalli, shoes which properly capture the Robert Cavalli aesthetic, which the Manolo might describe as “Long Island Russian Mafia Gun Moll”. And yet, for all of that, the Manolo finds these shoes “almost”. Almost worth wearing. Almost beautiful. Almost super fantastic. The problem is that the Manolo, who believes that true fashion lies on the border between the trashy and the classic, thinks that these shoes are located just across the fashionable border into the land of the trashy, which means these shoes are “almost”. Of the course, this…

MAY
2007 03

The YSL Tribute, Redux

Manolo says, here is yet another article about this year’s Super Duper Hottest-Hippest Shoe!!!!, the Yves Saint Laurent Tribute. (About which the Manolo has already written.) YOU’LL fall head over heels. Maybe literally. The must-have shoe for spring is the “Tribute” from Yves Saint Laurent, adorned with a towering 5 1/2-inch heel. Sold out in most New York retailers, it’s one of the tallest high-fashion shoes ever produced – yet celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani can’t wait to walk at elevations usually reserved for Las Vegas dancers and Vivid Video actresses. And who among us…

APR
2007 23

If You Must Have the Platform Shoes

Manolo says, yes, the Manolo thinks that the platform mania is coming to the end, but that does not mean that you should not enjoy it while it lasts, just that you should do so in the shoes that will not break your leg. Here is the cute platform from the Stuart Weitzman. The Manolo especially thinks that this would rock your summer in the whitish “chalk” color.

APR
2007 23

The Yves Saint Laurent Tribute

Manolo says, for the past few months the Manolo has tried to avoid writing about the Yves Saint Laurent Tribute pumps, the peep-toe mary jane platforms with the six inch heels. These shoes are the current “it” shoes, the hottest of the hottest, worn by the celebrities such as the J-Lo, the Becks, the Gwen Stefani, the Christina Aguilera and other hot young chickies who are in the eye of the public (often like the persistent sty). The reason the Manolo has avoided writing about these shoes is that he does not particularly care for them, and because it is…