Ayyyy!
Manolo says, ayyyy! The honeymoon is over for Pam Anderson and her latest husband.
Manolo says, ayyyy! The honeymoon is over for Pam Anderson and her latest husband.
Manolo says, in honor of the Maestro’s birthday, the Manolo the Shoeblogger has decided to update his blogroll, and to throw it open to all of the new fashion blogs he has not previously included.
The are so many new and wonderful voices out there that the Manolo can barely keep up with his blog reading and linking.
So, if you are the fashion blogger who links to the Manolo, but you are not on the Manolo’s blogroll please leave the the comment here so that he may link back.
By the way, the links in the Manolo’s complete blogroll rotate randomly through the front page, 25 at the time. So everyone does appear on the front page. (If the Manolo included his whole blogroll on the front page there would be room for nothing else.)
Manolo says, today is the special day of obligation here at the Manolo the Shoeblogger’s humble shoe blog, for today is the birthday of our patron saint, the Maestro Manolo Blahnik, who was born on this day in 1942.
Naturally, we shall celebrate this holy day with feasts in the Maestro’s honor, toasts to his continued good health, and shoes!
Manolo says, here is the short and amusing newsreel from the 1930s, in which the unnamed “fashion designers” predict what the women of the future, in the year 2000, will be wearing.
About one minute into the film you notice the appearance of our old friends, the ubiquitous shoes of the future, here called the “Cantilever Heel”, but known to the connoisseurs as the “backward heel”, the staple of 1950’s science fiction, and more recently Marc Jacobs and Junko Shimada.
P.S. Many thanks to the Manolo’s internet friend Lesle for spotting this.
Manolo says, it is the Monday after the Thanksgiving Holiday and thanks to the undercooked stuffing, the overcooked turkey, and your husband’s insistence that you arise at four in the morning on Friday, so that you may do your first round of full-contact Christmas shopping at Best Buy, you have already had it with Christmas-Fest 2007.
You were actually happy to get back to the office, away from the ever-growing stack of mail-order catalogs, and the mountain of leftover dry turkey (who the Hell’s idea was the 24 pounder?).
And so now you are sitting at your desk, thinking, “Manolo, Take me Away!”
And so the Manolo does, by showing you something fun and frivolous and warm, like these beautiful Dolce and Gabbana pumps with the floral print.
With these shoes on your feets it is always the summer evening on the Amalfitano coast, with you and your consort (who is the image of your husband, only taller, without the little belly, and somehow, inexplicably, Italian) driving in the tiny sports car to this little restaurant on the beach, where you will be served grilled langoustines, crisp white wine, and this fabulous crusty bread baked by the owner’s mother.
Manolo says, in case you may have missed this last week, the Manolo caught the shoe designer Steve Madde stealing the designs of the master Christian Louboutin, and also the photos used by the Saks department store to promote the Louboutin shoes.
Over the weekend the Manolo’s internet friend Susan, at the Counterfeit Chic, dissected this case, and notes the irony that the photo stolen from the Saks website has more protection under the law than the design of the shoes, themselves.
Of the course, for the Manolo the greatest crime is that Steve Madden is attempting to defraud his customers, by making them believe his shoddily made shoes are exactly like the masterful original upon which they are based.
P.S. The Manolo’s friend Julie, also had the few erudite words to say about this case at her new shoe blog, Almost Heeled.
Manolo says, Glinda has continued her compiling of lists, with the seasonally appropriate list of the Top Ten Family Christmas Movies.
Naturally, there is already the spirited discussion in the comments section about “The Jimmy Stewart Movie Which Must Not Be Named”.
Manolo says, in honor of the Christmas Season the Manolo has revived the his Basement of the Bargains Blog, with the Twistie doing the honors as the bargain blogger. Go now and look at the things the Twistie and the Manolo have selected for your bargain-shopping enjoyment.
Manolo says, there is the longish article in the Spanish-language publication Paula about the rising influence of the fashion blogosphere.
Esculpir la industria de la moda, elegir íconos como Mary-Kate Olsen, decidir qué va a ser tendencia y qué no. No hace falta ser un diseñador reconocido o un monstruo sagrado de las pasarelas para dictar los cánones. Basta tener una computadora y conexión a internet. Colgar imágenes, comentarlas, hundir o ensalzar una creación… se convierten hoy en auténticos privilegios de bloguero. “No se puede tomar el pulso al universo de la moda sin devorar bitácoras”, opina la estilista española Cristina M. Faber. Sin embargo, es difícil saber qué viene antes: si la gallina o el huevo.¿Las fotografías que pululan por la red reflejan el estilo dictado previamente por los diseñadores, o son más bien las colecciones las que beben de las estrambóticas novedades que circulan por el ciberespacio?
Naturally, the writer mentions your humble shoeblogging friend the Manolo.
Prefiere mantenerse en el anonimato, pero si algo está claro, es que Manolo the Shoeblogger no es Manolo Blahnik. Su web es un homenaje al diseñador canario del calzado idolatrado por las protagonistas de la serie Sex and the city. “Un zapato es una obra de arte; sus líneas conmueven”, considera. Vive entre Nueva York y Los Ángeles y ronda los 40 años. Ya de pequeño soñaba con zapatos. “Pero nunca tuve dotes de creador, así que me conformo con escribir sobre ellos”, explica. Más de 6 mil lectores devoran a diario sus reseñas sobre Christian Louboutin o el británico Rupert Sanderson. ¿Un momento inolvidable? Leer un artículo del London Times, donde Blahnik dejó caer que admiraba su bitácora. Residió en Madrid hace unos años, y en parte por nostalgia y por el jugoso mercado bloguero español, tiene previsto fundar dos webs en castellano: Manolo y sus Zapatos y Manolo Novias. shoeblogs.com
Yes, it is true what is said here, the Manolo will soon be launching new blogs in the Spanish language!
There are far too few fashion blogs in other languages and the Manolo aims to rectify this with bitácoras super-fantasticas!
And so, if you have the native fluency in Spanish, and are obsessed with the moda, the famosos, and especially the zapatos, you may wish to send the Manolo the email about these new employment opportunities.
Manolo says, the Manolo bloggers have put together their gift guides so as to ease our shopping distress.
Isidore Gallant at Manolo for the Men has recommend ties and cufflinks and Frenchback boxers for the fancy man in your life.
At the Manolo for the Brides, Never teh Bride’s list is all about the luxury items.
At the magnificent Ayyyy! blog, the Manolo’s friend Spirit Fingers has given us her gift suggestions for the men and for the womens.
Darling Francesca, from the Manolo for the Big Girl, provides us the with the gift guide to end all gift guides, with dozens of ideas for every mood and event.
Twistie has provided us with the list full of kitchenware and cookbooks to satisfy the maker of the Christmas goodies.
The Good Glinda provides us with the list for the parents who must buy something for everyone.
Manolo says, today as the Manolo gathers with his friends and family to give heartfelt thanks for the true blessings that Divine Providence has bestowed upon him, you may be assured, dearest internet friends, that you will be counted among the foremost of these blessings.
Allow the Manolo to now wish upon you the happiest of Thanksgivings.
Manolo asked, whose shoes?
Manolo answers, it is the Katherine Heigl!
Congratulations to the Manolo’s internet friend Jennie, who got the correct answer on her third guess and who was the only person to identify the celebrity.
As the Manolo had hinted, here is the young woman, only 29 years old, who dresses like the older and more matronly woman. Worse as the performer, she has the stolid and dourly Germanic quality that might be mildly amusing in the Bremen hausfrau who cleans your gasthaus room, but is much less so in the actress.