Word: manolos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...filed, steamed, exfoliated, polished, painted, or moisturized. I didn’t look a thing like Opal Mehta. Opal Mehta didn’t own five pairs of shoes so expensive they could have been traded in for a small sailboat. She didn’t wear makeup or Manolo Blahniks or Chanel sunglasses or Habitual jeans or Le Perla bras. She never owned enough cashmere to make her concerned for the future of the Kazakhstani mountain goat population. I was turning into someone else...
...this approach. “You can put the girl in couture,” one of the Haute Bitchez tells Opal, “but you can’t put the couture in the girl.” Similarly, put the automaton in Manolo Blahniks and all you get is an automaton in uncomfortable shoes...
...What lifts Boone from his paddock in northern New South Wales is the angelic figure of Marlene in her Manolo Blahniks. The daughter-in-law of Leibovitz, a Picasso-like modern master, she has come to value a work that has miraculously found its way into the hands of Boone's neighbor. But nothing is what it seems: Manhattan-accented Marlene is in fact a trucker's daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying...
...With Carey's fictional engines at full throttle, it seems petty to point out that Manolo Blahniks were virtually unknown in 1980. Or the unlikelihood of someone like Boone receiving a museum retrospective at 30, then falling into obscurity a few years later. And the early-'80s New York art scene was a little livelier than the moribund one his characters inhabit. But Carey isn't so much interested in the art world as in creative enterprise itself. "Shame, doubt, self-loathing," admits Boone, "all this we eat for breakfast." Perhaps we can allow Carey his moments of doubt. After...
...then, the market may already be crowded. Just before New Year's Eve, Tag Heuer hosted an all-night party for big spenders in Goa. About 400 diamond-dripping, air-kissing Indians decked out in brands like Manolo Blahnik and Balenciaga sipped champagne and sampled canap?s as they watched Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan play volleyball and emcee a bikini contest. "India cannot hide behind the fact that it is a developing country anymore," says Khan. "Every Indian now wants to own products that inspire awe and envy." Can the French sell cake to people who not long...