The Eyes are Getting Crazy
Manolo says, this picture of Katy Perry, it has reminded the Manolo of something, or someone…
Jennifer Wilbank, the Runaway Bride with the crazy lady eyes
Katy Perry is getting the crazy lady eyes!
Ayyyyy! Life with the Russell Brand, it is taking its toll!
Manolo says, the Manolo’s friends at the Harper’s Bazaar have launched the new website drawing attention to the scourge of designer fakery: Fakes are Never in Fashion.
Harper’s Bazaar’s Fakes Are Never In Fashion™ initiative has been working for years to expose the criminal activities connected to the sales of counterfeit products. The sales from these fake products fund child labor, sweat shops, drug cartels and even terrorism. American companies also lose an estimated $20 billion from the counterfeit goods industry.
The Harper’s Bazaar peoples have even included good advice for avoiding the fake shoes.
Phoney Baloney, Plastic Fake, Not Christian Louboutin Shoes
* Location – Luxury designer shoes are never sold by a street vendors, flea markets or low end stores. Buy from authorized retailers. These can easily be found on the brand’s website by looking at the locations the product is sold.
* Inspect The Bottom – Many fake shoes come with a thin plastic film attached to the bottom of the shoe. No luxury designer would put out a product with plastic covering.
* An Inside Job – Many counterfeit boots are created with cheaper interior materials. Instead of the shoe being lined with suede or leather, the fakes are lined with a much more noticeable, cheaper fabric.
Seams & Stitching – Crooked, poor stitching or messy seams, on Sheepskin boots for example, are signs of a counterfeit product.
* Packaging – If a certain luxury brand packages their shoes in a logo box or with a dust bag and these items are not included with your purchase, your shoes are fake. Also be sure to look for flimsy, poor quality or different size packaging.
* Holograms – Many brands are incorporating the use of holograms on their labels. Do some research to find out if the shoes you are trying to purchase normally come with a hologram. If you don’t see one, it’s a fake.
* Price Cuts – If the shoe you are trying to purchase retails for $1,000 and it’s on sale for $200, it’s a fake. Discounts like these do not exist with luxury goods. If the price sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Of the course, none of this is news to the long-time readers of the Manolo, for the Manolo has been crusading against the fakes and the off-knocks for many, many years.
And now, for your viewing pleasure, the video of the fake Christian Louboutin shoes being destroyed by the front loader…
Most satisfying indeed!
Manolo says, our friend Twistie is discussing the lovely art of ribbon embroidery…
…the art of taking lengths of ribbon and sewing them decoratively onto a background. I love ribbon embroidery.
It is quite attractive and historically important.
Manolo says, there is something exquisite about this suede, cuffed, ankle bootie from the Chloé.
This is not the big, flashy, glittery Louboutin platform, or the scheming-to-win-our-hearts Jimmy Choo pump. No, this is the subtle shoe, with the perfectly beautiful and restrained combination of colors and details. Look at the manner in which the buff color of the interior contrasts perfectly with the dove gray of the exterior!
This is that rarest of shoes, the one which can be worn profitably, to great effect, by the smart and stylish older woman, or the intelligent, young, sexy thing.
Manolo asked, whose shoes?
Manolo answers, it is the Julienne Moore!
Congratulations to the Manolo’s internet friend Danna for being the first to correctly identify this week’s personage of note.
Manolo says, if you are looking for the good quality, handsome, equestrian-style boot from the designer the Manolo admires, than you could not do much better than the Edita from the Elie Tahari.
Nor could you get it at the better bargain: $150 off of the regular price, the savings of more than 30%!
So Friggin Ladylike!
Manolo says, the Snooki, she is not just the cultured lady-thing who drinks her herbal tea with the pinkie finger extended, she is also now the published author person!
Snooki once told a reporter for the NY Times that she’d only read two books in her life, Dear John and Twilight. The orange wonder can add one more book to that list, because her new work of “fiction,” A Shore Thing, is out in stores today. […] The book is about a character named “Gia,” who is basically Snooki, and her cousin, who rent a “Seaside Heights beach house/dump” over the summer and try to get laid.
Ayyyy! It sounds like something by D.H. Lawrence!
Of the course, we must now look at the excerpt of this debut masterwork, The Shore Thing.
A hot guido was staring at her – in a nice way – from across the room.
Gia smiled at him. His back against the wall, he stood just off the dance floor, thumb in a belt loop. His chest muscles strained the fabric of his black tank top. It fit across a tummy that was hard and flat enough to cut salami on. No tattoos, which meant plenty of empty space on his arms to ink PROPERTY OF GIA. He started as if he could see through her dress, right down to the zebra-print bra and thong set underneath.
“I found him,” Gia said to Bella, draining her Slippery Nipple in one long suck…
The Manolo was right! It is exactly like D.H. Lawrence, only with less swarthy gamekeepers, and more swarthy guidos!
But wait, it gets better…
Manolo says, the twelfth day of Christmas approaches, which for many peoples of the Manolo’s acquaintance means it is time to take down the Christmas tree. Our friend Christa, at the Green Manolo, has some of the suggestions…
Put it in the trash? No way, that’s for amateurs. Recycling the Christmas tree? Now that’s what I’m talking about.
Sent back from the future to kill the woman who will give birth to the leader of the resistance.
The Manolo asks, somewhat hopefully, if you push the red button on the lapel, will it self-destruct?
P.S. Via the Celebitchy.
Manolo says, the Manolo cannot say exactly why, but the Manolo finds these leather and suede Burberry ankle booties oddly compelling.
Perhaps it is the au courant, militaristic, puttees-and-combat-boots look that the Manolo is responding to. On the one of the hands, the five inch heel is outrageous, but, on the other of the hands, the khaki leather with the straps and buckles is familiar and Burberryish, something that would certainly go with the iconic trench coat.
Meanwhile, the black version of this shoe does not particularly move the Manolo to appreciation.
Yea, or nay, dear internet friends, yea or nay?
