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...LOCATIONS TOURS: New York City has become the world's singles capital - at least in the popular imagination - thanks to the girls of Sex and the City. Spend a morning or afternoon in their Manolo Blahniks with the On Locations walking tour of Manhattan. O.K., you don't have to be single to participate, but the tour does celebrate the single life to the max. You can sit on the stoop of Carrie's apartment building, enjoy one of Miranda's beloved cupcakes (from the same bakery featured in the show) and see other singles haunts made famous...
...reaches for fashion terms to make her point about how female ambition is thwarted: "A staple of movies, novels and TV: the hard-charging female executive in her Armani power suit and Manolo heels. She's smart, aggressive, successful--and most people can't wait to see her get her well-deserved comeuppance...
...millions of powdered wigs, miles of elaborately embroidered silk, and of course enough painted, prancing ponies to mobilize a small republic’s national guard. That, and shoes. Many, many glorious shoes (which a discerning eye and a taste for Spanish decadence will surely recognize as the immortal Manolo Blahnik’s own handiwork). All this is to say that the film, as an aesthetic object created for pop-culture consumption, is nothing short of gorgeous. But at the same time, it feels about as fleeting as the 80s glam-rock symphony that pervades it—delightful...
...SHOES Manolo Blahnik crafted 20 new shoe styles for the film. Five of the styles will be available at his boutiques this month...
...Harvard trait: good taste. The real trouble with 02138 is that it doesn’t understand what makes Harvard great. It embraces jewels and jetsetters; it rejects the eccentric, the nerdy, and the badly dressed. In 02138, the frumpy physics concentrator who doesn’t know a Manolo Blahnik from a Birkenstock is tossed aside in favor of the Hermes-toting development admit from Greenwich. It celebrates those who parasite upon the Harvard name instead of those who contribute to it. The founder of 02138 says that as Harvard graduates, we share “cultural...