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...TRAVEL Fashion: Manolo Blahnik Shopping: Celebrity Castoffs Books: Best Travel Guides...
...TRAVEL Fashion: Manolo Blahnik Shopping: Celebrity Castoffs Books: Best Travel Guides...
...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, England, 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...
...into the cultural landscape. Bianca Jagger wore a pair in 1977 when she rode into Studio 54 on a horse. Carrie on Sex and the City was mugged for hers. Now the shoes are the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London and a new book, Manolo Blahnik Drawings (Thames & Hudson; 200 pages). To prepare for both, Blahnik spent much of the holiday season traveling even more. "I don't like this kind of attention," he says. "I still think 'Why did I let myself into this madness...
...details in a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes can vary greatly: the elegant ones?plenty of satin stilettos for brides-to-be; the funky ones?his take on the Timberland boot, the Tims (picture a suede work boot with a four-inch heel; now picture it on Jennifer Lopez); and the subversive ones?his personal favorite is a shoe of steel, aluminum and titanium that never made it to production because the razor-sharp heel could pierce someone's hand. Creations like these make women fanatically loyal to Blahnik...