Miss Blips
Manolo says, the Miss Blips she missed her calling as the fashion model.
JUN
2005 10
2005 10
Excellent Advice!
Manolo says, if you, like the Manolo, are someone who loves the eBay you should read this from the Manolo’s internet friend the Cranky Biscuit.
Think that Louis Vuitton purse from that powerseller is authentic because they have a high feedback rating? Think again. Just because a seller has 500 feedback, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are trustworthy. Some unscrupulous sellers will sell hundreds of $.05 recipes (usually as private auctions) to get a high feedback rating, and then use that rating to sell fake designer handbags. They can also use this tactic to bury negative feedback from the buyers they fleeced, since they know that many potential buyers will look through the first few pages of feedback, but will probably not bother to wade through everything to find the negative ratings.
There is more! Go read it all.
JUN
2005 10
2005 10
Ride with the Devil
Manolo says, the Manolo he has blogged about the ridiculous diet book of the Evil One in the recent past, however, several of the Manolo’s internet friends have mailed him the link to this article in the Slate about the book.
The article by the Amanda Fortini, it is funny and worth the reading. However, for the Manolo, far better than the article is this picture of the fat Karl Lagerfeld it contained.
Manolo says, look at this, it is tragic, no?
Here is the fat, happy-but-crazy Karl Lagerfeld, smiling at us like the Sergant Schultz from the Hogan’s Heroes, wanting nothing more than the bratwurst and the pastries, and perhaps to destroy the House of Chanel with his clothing designs.
Obviously, this picture it is from before the Lagerfeld he made is infamous pact with El Diablo.
Now, the question for the Manolo, it is should the Faust/Lagerfeld be pitied, or despised?
JUN
2005 10
2005 10
The Shoes in the Field
Manolo says, the Wall of the Shoes, it has inspired another of the Manolo’s many internet friends to send him the link to the super fantastic exhibit of shoes at the Field Musuem in the Chicago.
JUN
2005 10
2005 10
Spinning in his Grave
Manolo says, this picture of the Lisa Marie and her mother, the Cruella De Ville, it frightens the Manolo.
JUN
2005 10
2005 10
The Wall of Shoes
Manolo says, one of the Manolo’s many internet friends has sent the Manolo a link to a picture of the wall of shoes.
I visited The Vintage Couture Show at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI today, and I thought about you as I viewed The Fab Shoes of the Elizabeth Parke Firestone, the wife of a wealthy industrialist who loved couture. An entire wall was filled with her shoe collection, and it was breathtaking. I posted a picture of the shoe wall on Flickr, and I thought you might like to see it.
Here is this super fantastic picture.
Pucci Makes the Smiles
Manolo says, the Manolo he woke up this morning feeling the need for something outrageous and happy-making. He could think of only one thing….Pucci!
Foul Fashion
Manolo says, Ayyyyy! The hot pants for the chicks they display the drumsticks!
JUN
2005 08
2005 08
Less Skin
Manolo says, look at this story!
Hip-hugging jeans and tight-fitting tiny tops are out. Less skin is back in for the young American.
U.S. fashion experts say a trend toward modesty is evident in new fall styles for clothing aimed at girls in their early teens, and will become more common with spring 2006 designs.
“We’re seeing skirt hemlines that are at the knee and are very demure, very proper pants, prim tops and large pearl necklaces,” said Gloria Baume, fashion market director for Teen Vogue. The magazine showcases fashion and photography much like its parent publication Vogue.
Baume, who said she looks to European fashion runways to spot what will be hot for American teens, said designers have been focusing on “ladylike and almost old-fashioned” styles that were inspired by the 1950s.
That would phase out the belly-baring, skintight numbers championed by the likes of Britney Spears. “There is nothing form-fitting about the latest fashions,” Baume said.
Does that mean the low-rise jean fad is over?
“I hope so,” said Baume. “I don’t like them. That style has been around for four years and I think girls are getting tired of it.”
CosmoGIRL! magazine fashion editor, Tara McBratney, agrees there is a new trend toward modesty in fashion, but she says it has little to do with pressure from conservative elements in society.
“Fashion is a cycle,” McBratney explained. “We got to the point where the jeans were as low as they could go, shirts were as cropped as they could go, baby tees were as tight as they could go, so the natural progression is for fashion to go the other way.”
This woman, the Tara McBratney, she is wrong. Yes, to some of the extent, the fashion it is the cycle, with the hemlines going up and down in the somewhat predictable manner. However, the Manolo he believes that this it is indeed the beginning of the partial return to the standards of the dignity and the comportment that once ruled.
Do not forget that our muse the Miuccia Prada, she has been talking about this very issue. For the example, here in this recent interview in the GQ.
With women, the more unhappy they are, the more undressed they are. This is true. Dignity’s another very important part of this. Sex and the City is the opposite of dignity. You have to have dignity for your body–this is with men and women. You need to have dignity towards how you are, how you dress, how you behave.
This it is so perfectly true, and so perfectly self-evident that the Manolo he cannot understand why it took so long for so many persons to realize it.