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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...
...exhibition, which runs until May 11, is a scrapbook of his career. Tucked amid white walls built of shoe boxes?the show was designed by his niece?are original sketches and magazine pages featuring his shoes, clothes by some of the designers with whom he has worked, a video clip of the mugging scene in Sex and the City and shoes?lots and lots of glorious shoes...
...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...
Princesses never do work with their hands—the occasional response paper aside—and what better way to show it than a well-groomed hand? Open-toe shoe season seems woefully far off, but dainty feet need to look good even when no one can see them. Unfortunately, a manicure-pedicure combo starts at $50 everywhere in the Square, a price absurd even for royalty. Sunny Nails in Central Square is far more reasonable, and has massage chairs (pedicurists at Pure Line and Sasha’s Skin Care both twist your feet and rest them...
Three years ago, the magazine published a feature on the University’s connection to the shoe industry, according to Gerardi...