JUL
2012
05

Photo from The Worst Wedding You’ve Ever Attended

Manolo says, the aged bride wore white, the groom ate your soul.

MAY
2011
12

The Abyss Also Stares

Manolo says, this news item surprises the Manolo not in the least. Karl Lagerfeld was obviously joking when he told Hilary Alexander, “I don’t want an intellectual image, I’m a fashion person,” back in January. His latest project – and he is perhaps fashion’s greatest multi-tasker – is to publish the entire works of Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th century German philosopher. Lagerfeld told WWD he would be publishing Nietzsche’s work, in 12 volumes, the way the German philosopher would have wanted it: typeset print alongside the original manuscripts complete with hand-written corrections. Only 3000 copies of “Nietzsche’s Nietzsche” will be…

MAY
2011
03

Meanwhile, One Terrorist Mastermind Remains at Large

Manolo says, chocolate has never looked so creepy.

JAN
2011
04

Gruesome

The Manolo asks, somewhat hopefully, if you push the red button on the lapel, will it self-destruct? P.S. Via the Celebitchy.

NOV
2010
09

What is Happening at Lanvin?

Manolo asks, what is happening at the Lanvin? The torturing of the models with the agonizing shoes… Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz recently explained that he had to scrap a lot of the heels in his spring 2011 show because “We did the rehearsal and all of a sudden I saw the girls couldn’t walk. I saw the agony in their faces. They were shaking; they looked like alcoholic girls.” . The release of the frightening and nightmarishly surreal promotional video .. . The normally adorable fashion director looking like Norman Bates’ chubby cousin. . Dearest Alber, the Manolo must ask,…

OCT
2010
20

Six Years of Shoeblogging: The Fresh Prince of Darkness

N.B. In honor of the Manolo’s six years of shoeblogging, the Manolo has decided to repost this week some of his favorite pieces. This animadversion on the New York Magazine article about the Evil One, has proven to be one of the most popular posts the Manolo has ever written. It originally appeared on February 7th, 2006. Manolo says, even from his sick bed, the Manolo he still feels impelled to rise to do battle with evil. Look at this lengthy article in the New York Magazine, which the Manolo has annotated below for your edification. It is like the…

SEP
2010
27

Things That Frighten The Manolo: Alien Abduction

Manolo says, please, Manolo, do not be ridiculous. It is only the optical illusion. There are no such things as the aliens who will suck you up into their spaceships with the tractor beams, where they will subject you to the intrusive probings with their grotesque and perverted appendages. Surely there must be the more mundane explanation…perhaps at the Wikipedia… Named for their alleged skin tone, “Greys” are most widely associated with the alien abduction phenomenon, wherein claimants allege that Greys are intelligent extraterrestrials who visit Earth and secretly perform medical experiments on humans they have temporarily kidnapped….A composite description…

APR
2010
22

Karl Lagerfeld: Like the Hyena Who Has Found the Fresh Carcass

Manolo says, ayyyyyyyy! This photo will give the Manolo nightmares for months to come!!! What? There are more photos? Does our suffering know no bounds?

APR
2010
15

Dinner with Karl Lagerfeld

N.B. Guest post by Steven Cojocaru. Read more at Cojo’s blog CojoStyle. Karl Lagerfeld, one of my biggest idols, arrived at a dinner for Ralph Lauren in Paris turned out in a dandy and dramatic look which I LOVE. The Chanel designer looks like the owner of a Parisian male escort service crossed with an Egyptian mummy. I can picture him going back to his tomb after the party, slipping into a fabulous duchess satin sleeping gown, and dealing with all the Pharaohs risen from the dead to beg him for a 30 percent discount at Chanel. Now remember these…

APR
2010
01

Bloggerfeld

Manolo says, perhaps, if you are the very long term reader of the Manolo, you will know that today is the day we commemorate the times the Evil One, Karl Lagerfeld, hijacked the humble shoe blog of the Manolo. It was, to say the least, the very trying time for the Manolo.

MAR
2010
13

Both Furious and Triste

Manolo says, there are the all too frequent moments in fashion when the movie Zoolander seems like the documentary. Behold this scene recorded by Guy Trebay of the New York Times at the end of the Evil One’s most recent Chanel show (the theme of which was apparently, “Sexy Yetis Visit the Fortress of Solitude“). But there was also a Woody Allen moment, and it occurred after the last of the models, clad in fake fur Wookie-wear, had sloshed through the puddles and offstage, and a small group of Mr. Lagerfeld’s industry friends tried to see and congratulate him. For…

NOV
2009
06

Totally Looks Like…Evil!

Manolo says, frankly the Manolo finds the snowy grill to be less grotesque. P.S. Thanks to the Manolo’s internet friend Mimi.