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HOUSTON The favorite shoe among the SUV (sport-utility vixen) crowd is Manolo Blahnik's $455 "sneaklo," above, a stiletto boot with a lug sole, according to Ken Downing, a vice president of Neiman Marcus...
...complicated: if Moss wears it, everyone else wants to wear it too. For designers, there's really no better way to improve their image or move merchandise. Last winter Moss showed up at Manolo Blahnik's Design Museum show in London wearing a shredded Lanvin dress and sent fashionistas clamoring for anything by Alber Elbaz. At Mario Testino's exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, she wore a Balenciaga dress and a fur stole, and--poof!--Tom Ford was designing fur stoles. Last summer she turned up at a cosmetics party in a pair of Vivienne Westwood platform pumps...
Like a star of the silent screen, Moss doesn't talk about her career, the headlines or the rock-'n'-roll lifestyle. "She creates an excitement about herself, through her style and taste--somehow outside of fashion but always fashionable," says Blahnik. Now that's a commodity. --By Camilla Morton
Specifically, I want to be Ben Evidente. The greatest shoe salesman in the world, Evidente, 33, is the anti--Willy Loman. He is a celebrity not only in Manhattan, where he has been selling for the Manolo Blahnik store for the past 12 years, but also around the world. When he stayed with clients in Brazil for Carnaval, he was bold-faced in the paper. Blahnik signed a copy of his book for Evidente, "To Ben. Without you, we are nothing." He makes so much money that he just bought a vacation house in Hawaii. And here at the semiannual...
...rocked Japan's fashion scene. Last year, the icon of Japanese haute expression, Yohji Yamamoto, joined forces with Adidas to sell a new line of sportswear, tagged Y-3. This month, Puma will showcase its latest sneaker collaboration with Yasuhiro Mihara, Japan's version of a younger, spikier Manolo Blahnik. Ironically, the decision of these high-fashion designers to come down from their ateliers and mix with the skateboard set is less their own than the imperative of the one sector of Japan's lackluster economy that's still spending: the nation's youngsters. "Like...