JUL
2006
18

The Next Carnivale of the Couture

Manolo says, the topic for the next Carnivale of the Couture it has been posted at the very smart website of the Fashion Incubator. Tell us about the most technically complex garment you have either owned or constructed, describing it’s unique features. Feel free to include photos if you have them. This it is the marvelously thoughtful and important question.

JUL
2006
18

Baube?

Manolo says, Ayyyyyyyyyy! The Manolo he is most emphatically not the Baubé Has anyone received the Fall “Book” from Neiman Marcus? There is a cosmetics insert with a cartoonish hairstylist/makeup artist character by the name of Baubè in it. And Baubè “speaks” eerily like our beloved Manolo. And if The Manolo has the gig writing the parlance and the patois for this Baubè character, “bravo,” I say. It’s pretty cute, it’s funny, it’s well-illustrated and I hope it pays buckets of dough. If he doesn’t have the gig, and I kind of think not (he’s more erudite than this Baubè…