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...What's the real reason she's always so eager to watch Sex and the City? So that she can get a better look at Carrie's Manolos. Forget snow boots, this year buy her shoes she wouldn't buy herself. About $1,000 by Manolo Blahnik...
...chair (above, $5,400) is the handiwork of the Campana Brothers, Brazilian designers known for using inexpensive materials. At www.mossonline.com. For Her What's the real reason she's always so eager to watch Sex and the City? So that she can get a better look at Carrie's Manolos. Forget snow boots, this year buy her shoes she wouldn't buy herself. About $1,000 by Manolo Blahnik. For Friends O.K., the whole yoga fad is beginning to get on your nerves: when did all your friends become so bendy? Still, if you can't talk them back onto...
...Barnes & Noble from work to catch urban fiction novelist Candace Bushnell, who also wrote the Sex in the City novel, discussing her latest work Trading Up—a book about a distressed Victoria’s Secret model searching for love in her Manolo Blahnik heels. Upon asking a clerk about The Nanny Diaries in an attempt to flaunt my knowledge about the genre, I was told that since the book was two years older, it had been relegated to the standard fiction department. Apparently urban fiction goes in and out of style as fast as designer couture...
...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...
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...