Manolo says, many of the Manolo’s internet friends have asked the Manolo to post the pictures of Faye Dunaway in the yellow, feathery, knee-high boots, and in the outfit with the PanAm logo.
The Manolo points you to these images, which you will view at your own peril…
Manolo says, savor these words, dear internet friends: “New Jersey High School Prom.”
Such delicious and horrifying images are conjured up, no?
And yet, for the most part, the young women who were selected to be the “clients” were smart, and sophisticated, and somewhat knowledgeable about fashion. And they seemed to provide enough guidance to the designers so that some of them were able to produce attractive and flattering gowns.
Undoubtedly, some of this precocious knowledge is attributable to Project Runway, itself, for it has popularized the production of fashion like nothing before it. Certainly, the fashion blogs also deserve much credit here, as they have demystified fashion and made it accessible, so that for the first time the voice of ordinary enthusiasts can be heard and respected.
This is all so encouraging to the Manolo, who hopes for nothing less than the complete democratization of fashion, in which talented young peoples in New Jersey, and Manitoba, and Minas Gerais, and Botswana can produce beautiful clothes and sell them to people on the other side of the world.
But back to the Project Runway, and to the designers who were confronted by these young women who had definite ideas of their own. Predictably, Christian, who is the most immature of the designers, had the most difficulty adjusting to the demands of his outspoken client.
Manolo says, yes it is only January, and the spring is still decades away. How you long for the coming of the summer, when you can wear beautiful, strappy sandals from clever designers without feeling conspicuously out of place.
Look! it is the new Summer 2008 sandals from Prada! Is that the ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds?