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...Manolo Blahnik hates traveling. He hates airports, train stations, planes and trains. But these days Blahnik spends most of his time on the road. He goes to Italy, where he still personally oversees the production of his $500-a-pair shoe collection; to the Canary Islands, to visit his 90-year-old mother; to the United States, where most of his customers live. He also travels from his Georgian home in Bath, where he stores some 10,000 pairs of what he affectionately calls his "stupid shoes," to his office on the fashionable King's Road in Chelsea, London. Blahnik...
...together three seasons' worth of feminine, flirty, busily constructed clothes. He did this while still living withhis parents and drawing a $15-a-day allowance. And yet all fashion indices point to him as the Next Big Thing in Frocks. Magazines have written worshipfully about him. Manolo Blahnik collaborates with him on shoes. Posen's shows feature A-list models like Naomi Campbell, whom he pays in clothes. And during last week's Fashion Week, when all the most influential sheiks of chic were in Manhattan, Bloomingdale's devoted a row of windows to his work. "I haven't seen...
...gave quite a few of them. Galella was the guy who had to hang around outside expensive restaurants, then chase the well-fed celebrities to their waiting limousines. What the two men had in common was anger. While it may be true that Warhol used to kiss the Manolo Blahnik boots of the stars, in some of his Polaroids of the famous at play you sense the same undertow of loathing you find in his silk-screened portraits of Marilyn and Liz. Likewise with Galella. His pictures can remind you of Susan Sontag's observation: "To photograph someone...
...deal PINK FLOYD '70s rockers say pressing new CD will damage environment so they'll plant a forest. We've thought of another solution: no new CD Losers MICHAEL JACKSON Stores cancel 50% of orders for Jacko's $30 million album Invincible. Rejected titles: Indigestible, Unrecognizable, Inflammable MANOLO BLAHNIK Shoe designer pulls dangerous titanium stiletto heels from latest collection. He wasn't fooled by 19 orders from a mysterious Alberto "Al" Qaeda DANIEL RADCLIFFE Twelve-year-old Harry Potter star is redubbed after voice broke mid-film. The director felt the new beard and chest hair worked...
...understand that aspects of this city are status-conscious and Manolo Blahnik-obsessed. And I don’t begrudge the HBO tycoons their right to make money off of it. Nor do I begrudge Sarah Jessica Parker and Co. the right to discuss the intersection of relationships and partial lobotomies (in the latest episode, she decides they could go together like “chocolate and peanut butter”). I begrudge the way “Sex and the City” threatens to embody New York City. Yes, it’s glitzy. Yes, its social scene...