JUL
2009
30

Giuseppe Zanotti: From Sublime to Ridiculous?

Manolo says, compare and contrast the following two shoes from Giuseppe Zanotti.

Giuseppe Zanotti Patent Leather Ankle Boots   Manolo Likes!  Click!Giuseppe Zanotti Leopard Print Platform Wedges

Manolo says, when the Manolo’s shoe-obsessed friend Wayne pointed out these two Giuseppe Zanotti shoes to the Manolo, the Manolo’s initial reaction was to laud the first for it’s combination of classical beauty and sublime construction, while deploring the second for its irrational science-fictiony exuberance.

And yet…the longer the Manolo considers the second shoe, the more he has reconciled himself to its over-the-topness. Indeed, the Manolo now believes that the right rock-n-roll girl could make this shoe work for her in the right conditions with the exact right attitude and outfit. Everyone else should select the first, which is undeniably beautiful.

Of the course, the real question is how can two such very different shoes, which share almost nothing in the way of aesthetic vision, be produced by the same designer?

The answer is, that they are not. There are clearly two different designers at work in the Zanotti atelier.

JUL
2009
30

News from Texas

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The Manolo’s Sharp-Eyed Readers

Manolo says, the Manolo never ceases to be amazed by the shoe-spotting ability of the Manolo’s sharp-eyed internet friends.

For the example, yesterday, while preparing for the Whose Shoes Wednesday the Manolo mistakenly included this fragmentary photograph in his collection of the Lady Gaga shoes.

Not Lady Gaga's Boots

This is not Lady Gaga, something the Manolo in his haste to prepare the post had missed.

And yet, even though it was the single image among nearly the score, this did not prevent the Manolo’s readers from identifying to whom they belonged.

The first to do so, was the Manolo’s internet friend Jo.

Nicole Scherzinger, I think?

Followed by the more complete identification made by the sharp-eyed sharpy, Rachel Marie

Those are Pussycat Doll paws-who else wears tartan parachute pantaloons with knee high boxer boots? It is Nicole Scherzinger! She redeems herself with her other footwear choice, though. I heart you, Manolo! Kisses

And then, here is Long Island, calling the Manolo out this morning.

I love you Manolo but I think you throw a ringer photo in with this lot. I believe that photo of the young lady in plaid wearing lace-up boots is Nicole Scherzinger. However it possible that both could wear the same equally outrageous combination.

And naturally, these readers of the Manolo were exactly correct.

Nicole Scherzinger and her marvelous boots!

It was the Nicole Scherzinger!

Whose Shoes Wednesday…The Answer!

Manolo asked, whose shoes?

Lady GaGa's Shoes!

Manolo answers, it is the trying-too-hard-to-be-moderately-outrageous Lady GaGa!

Congratulations to the Manolo’s internet friend Sean who was the first to correctly identify this week’s personage of note.