Christian Louboutin Simple Ankle Boot for the Wednesday
Manolo says, after all of the buckles and straps and glittery glam-o-tchotkes, it is pleasant to see more tranquil, classically elegant shoes, such as this Simple Ankle Boot from Christian Louboutin .
Knock-off Christian Louboutin Boots
Don’t these Black Faux Suede Knee High Platform Heel Boots (that sell for only $22.99 from Ami Clubwear ) look like near replicas of Christian Louboutin Gazolina Black Suede Boots (that retail for $2,295 from Barneys New York)? Smooth faux suede uppers in a knee high platform boots. Rounded closed toe, front tonal stitching, 15 inch shaft measures from arch to top, 15 1/2 inch circumference with folded cuff that splits on back. Side zipper. Soft fabric lining, slightly cushioned footbed. 3/4 inch platform midsole, 5 inch high heel. Isn’t it so sad that most people (probably myself included) wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from a distance that you only paid 1% of the retail value? Christian Louboutin Boots
Interview With the Curator
Manolo says, the Manolo’s friends at the Collector’s Weekly (which earlier this year published the remarkable interview with the shoe collector John Walford ) have returned with the excellent interview with Elizabeth Semmelhack , one of the curators at the magnificent Bata Shoe Museum and author of the book Heights of Fashion: A History of the Elevated Shoe . There is much in this interview to both ponder and enjoy, but below are two intriguing excerpts. Collectors Weekly : How did a pair of Manolos or Louboutins become star accessories? Semmelhack : I don’t think that it was the designers themselves who did it as much as the culture. Clearly their shoes are lovely, but over the course of the 20th century, you have a great loss of accessories in women’s wear. I like to use the hat as an example of that. If you think about watching “I Love Lucy” on TV, so often she’s walking by a hat shop and she stops to purchase a hat. Now she’s got to hide it from Ricky because God forbid he sees it. It’s the hat that she must have, the hat, the hat, the hat. Along the same lines, we had white gloves and we had pearls and we had other similar ways of expressing status. With the loss of iconic accessories like those, shoes carry a greater burden of meaning. We now require shoes to really, as someone said, punctuate our fashionable outfit or unfashionable outfit, whatever we’re doing. They are increasingly a way of turning a generic outfit around, and I think that’s one of the reasons why shoes have become such a focal point of culture. We can read a lot into them. But today, where fashion has been so democratized, you can have two women of wildly different socioeconomic standings or wildly different social constructs of themselves going into the same, say, Gap store and buying the exact same pair of jeans. One might wear her jeans with a pair of Manolo Blahniks, making one statement, while the other woman puts on a pair of Keds to go watch her kids play soccer, and she makes a different statement. The loss of the hat as the fashion accessory elevates the shoes to the place of prominence? The theory is so simple and elegant, it cannot but be true. Here is the second excerpt, this time on the topic of clothing for the men. Collectors Weekly : What caused men to shy away from high heels? Semmelhack : One of the things that developed during the 1600s, and that really took hold in the 18th century, is Enlightenment thinking, which posited that men were innately rational regardless of their social stature. All men could be educated, and once a man, even a man of the lower social classes, was educated, he could participate in government, he could participate as a citizen. Some of the seeds of the American Revolution and the French Revolution were sown by this way of thinking, this idea of enfranchisement for all men. As this philosophy evolved, a dichotomy developed—men were deemed rational and educatable; women were irrational, sentimental, and uneducatable. Dress became an expression of these two different modes of gender-specific behavior. Men began to wear more dour clothing. They gave up makeup and highly ornamented clothing and heels. Those accoutrements became signifiers of femininity—especially the high heel, since it’s an irrational form of footwear, unless you are on a horse. So it became associated with femininity, and then was eventually linked to female desirability. There is so much here to consider that it would take many hours and words to fully digest. Above all, however, this reminds the Manolo of one of his favorite throw-away asides in Patrick O’Brien’s Aubrey-Maturin novels, from the book, The Reverse of the Medal , of the observation made on the London street in the year 1814. […] Jack observed with regret that the fine coloured coats of his youth were losing more and more ground to black, which, though well enough in particular cases, gave the far pavement a mourning air. To be sure, bottle-green, claret-coloured, and bright blue did appear now and then, but the far side of the street was not the flower-garden that once it had been. And pantaloons were almost universal among the young. Exactly! Male fashions reached their peak of refinement in the final quarter of the 18th century , after the peruke had begun to disappear, but while we were still free to enjoy embroidered waistcoats, brightly colored coats, and knee-breeches. It is the most enlightened style of dress that is at once flattering, manly, and elegant. And now you must go and read the whole interview , for it is most excellent, indeed.
Christian Louboutin Fernando Sandals For the Tuesday
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, and you are back at your desk, the glorious summer of 2010 proceeding without you. But, not to worry, you have had the sufficient dosage of summer over this past holiday weekend to hold you for many days to come. It was not the undercooked hot dogs, nor the overripe potato salad, but the near drowning incident that perhaps has soured you on the entire Fun In The Sun™ enterprise. But the less said of that, the better. All you choose to remember is the image of your husband pulling your teenaged son back into the boat by the hair, slapping him on the back as he coughed up water, and saying, “that was fun, wasn’t it?” And your son, your lovely, sweet boy, not only agreed to this maniacal proposition of fun-ness (fun-hood, fun-osity?) , not only agreed, but wanted to get back on the inner-tube as soon as possible. “This time,” he said, spitting up the algae, “I think I can get more air if you go a little faster, Dad.” Aaaarrrrrregggggghh! And then you remember, it is after the Day of Memorialization, you can wear the white shoes ! Celebrate the season with Christian Louboutin Fernando Patent Leather Sandals !
Christian Louboutin Annees Folles 140 pumps as seen on Sex & the City 2’s SJP
Sarah Jessica Parker graces the cover of the June 2010 issue of Marie Claire* magazine. Inside you’ll find SJP wearing these to-die-for Christian Louboutin Annees Folles 140 pumps (available from Net-A-Porter , $1095) along with exclusive interviews with SJP, Kristin Davis, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon about the upcoming Sex and the City 2 movie ( source ). *Special Offer! Subscribe (or renew) to Marie Claire Magazine for $7 for a 2-year subscription from Amazon.com - Save 92% off the $84 Cover Price! Your turn: Who’s planning a girls’ night out on May 28th to go see Sex and the City 2? I am! christian louboutin pump
Christian Louboutin Ronfifi Corset Boots For the Monday
Manolo says, it is Monday and you are happy to report that your Mother’s Day was not unpleasant. Your children took time out from their very busy schedule of digital communication to present you with the bouquet of flowers and the card, and to accompany you to the brunch at that Italian place you like. What was truly sweet, however, was that during your celebratory brunch, they had the great good courtesy to keep their cellphones in their laps. It was so wonderful! Whenever you looked down the table you could even pretend they were praying, their heads bowed, their thumbs furiously working at perhaps their rosaries. Less satisfying, was the appearance of your mother-in-law, Blanche, and her “old man” Jimmy, who were also present at the meal. Blanche is the wonderful mother-in-law, the sort who is sensible enough to help when needed, but also sensible enough to keep out of your business when not. However, what is troubling, is that she appears to have dealt with widowhood by joining the motorcycle gang. “They’re not a motorcycle gang,” answers Gary when you mentioned your fears to him last night “Yeah, but what about his beard?,” you snap back, “and those awful biker outfits?” “Jimmy’s alright. The dude looks like Santa Claus.” “I’m not sure. He seems a little rough to me.” The image of two, stout, elderly people in matching red leather jackets and chaps, eating eggs benedict, still lingers. “He’s a retired endocrinologist,” says Gary, “They ride a Honda Goldwing for God’s sake.” But you are not placated. You are worried for Blanche’s safety, and perhaps more than the little bit jealous that she seems to be having so much fun on the other side of seventy, heading off to Big Sur while you are still chained to your desk. What is needed now are boots! Look! It is the Christian Louboutin Ronfifi Corset Boots ! The exact sort of boots you would wear on the back of the giant motorcycle being piloted down the scenic coastal highway by Gary, except in this fantasy, Gary looks exactly like the young Lorenzo Lamas.
Christian Louboutin Speaks!
Manolo says, from our friends at NET-A-PORTER (who provided us with the delightful Giuseppe Zanotti interview ) comes this most amusing interview with Christian Louboutin. The first thing I really wanted to do was to design shoes for showgirls, because at the end of the day, you know, a showgirl is…is like a bird of paradise. It’s a woman, but it’s a representation of a bird, basically. At the end of my school, I did a big internship at Folies Bergère, and it was very interesting because, you know, if you like high heels, the showgirls are the best to actually show how to walk, how to manage, how to practice, but also they know great tricks about things, because not only they need to look, and to be good, but also they have to not to think about it. So, it has to be very comfortable, they don’t have to think about their feet. And, you know, at the first moment when I really thought up this stupid sentence, which is ’suffering to be beautiful’, doesn’t work. You know, showgirls cannot suffer to be beautiful. The Folies Bergère has interns? Of the course, you would be like the statuesque and colorful Bird of Paradise in these Christian Louboutin Ulona 140 platform sandals Although it would likely take several months of interning at the Folies Bergère to walk properly in them.
Christina Aguilera in Christian Louboutin Studded Sandals
Christina Aguilera wore sexy Christian Louboutin St Jeannette Black Stud Sandals ($975 from LuisaViaroma.com ) in her newly released provocative music video “Not Myself Tonight”. christian louboutin sandal
Christian Louboutin Coussinet Platform Slingbacks For the Monday
Manolo says, it is Monday and you are back doing that thing that you do during the week, but now filled with chocolate and jelly beans, and more honey-baked ham than was perhaps advisable to eat. But, other than the lingering side effect of the mild marshmallow peep poisoning, it was the very good holiday weekend, although, this morning has been somewhat marred by the knowledge that Danielle Steel owns 6,000 pairs of the Christian Louboutin fancy-lady shoes . 6,000 pairs of the Christian Louboutins! And here you are with only only two pairs, both of which are hand-me-downs from your crazy insane friend Ericka , and which, because of that, do not fit so well. But, such is the nature of life, in which the crazy sexy people and the obsessive-compulsive writing people who dress up like the duchesses in the Eloise stories are able to accumulate millions of dollars worth of luxury shoes, while hard working peoples, such as yourself, must go barely shod with only the couple-three dozen pairs of mostly mid-range shoes to your name. So you go to the website of this Danielle Steel, who, although not to your taste, is one of your mother’s all time favorite writers, to see what is all the fuss, and you discover this remarkable sentence… My other favorite haunt these days is IKEA … juxtaposed next to the photograph of the room that looks something like Louis-Napoleon’s boudoir. Clearly, this woman should be writing the Lord of the Rings style books about elves who have many complicated romantic entanglements, because she obviously has the very rich fantasy life. And then you imagine what the first chapter of this book would be like… Galindral Vinewhip sipped his warm mead, his first cup of the morning, and turned to the society pages in the Middle Earth Tattler to see who among his acquaintances was allegedly in love with whom, who was giving a dinner party where, who would attend, and who would presumably not show up because of the latest social feud. He knew only too well that there would be an item or two from their reporter in Marbellathric, that very tony resort on the sunny Aetheic Sea, where only the most beautiful elves wintered. He also knew that his ex-wife, Nostariel Grimjester, would be mentioned…. “Hmm,” you think to yourself, “this has potential.” And so you resolve in that instant to write the Daniel-Steel-meets-Tolkien novel and get very exceedingly rich (because everyone knows that the quickest and easiest way to spectacular wealth is by writing novels). But first, you must be inspired by looking at shoes you will soon undoubtedly own… Such as these unusual and arresting Christian Louboutin Coussinet Platform Slingbacks . Take that Danielle Steel!
Christian Louboutin Dolly Forever Barbie Doll
OMG, I love this Dolly Forever Barbie by Christian Louboutin (available from Net-A-Porter , $150) even more than I love the Cat Burglar Barbie by Christian Louboutin ! And my brother did get me the 2009 Holiday Barbie for Christmas! Christian Louboutin has collaborated with Barbie to create this limited edition ‘Dolly Forever’ doll. In a khaki mini dress, sunglasses, gold extras and Forever Tina fringed boots, she is the perfect gift for fashion lovers. She comes with a collection of 4 red-soled Louboutins, each with their own shoe box and bag. Limited edition Christian Louboutin for Barbie ‘Dolly Forever’ doll with red hair and green eyes. Barbie wears a khaki lace-front mini dress, gold accessories and fuchsia Forever Tina fringed boots, comes with 3 extra pairs of mini Louboutin shoes; gold Differa sandals, pink Barcelona wedges and lilac Mary Janes, each with a box and shoe bag. Barbie comes with a stand and is presented in a brown designer-style box.
Christian Louboutin Let Me Tell You Ankle Boots For the Monday
Manolo says, it is Monday and if you are American you are probably not back at your desk, in the stead you are still at home in your jammies, because that is the way you roll, baby. And now, because it is the holiday and the day after the Dia de San Valentin, and because you Holiday of Love did not perhaps live up to your expectations (as it did not involve the appearance of Fabio bearing the bucket of fried chicken ) the Manolo will show you some fantasy shoes from Christian Louboutin . Beautiful! Unusual! Fun!! Wicked Expensive!
Gwyneth Paltrow in Christian Louboutin Coussin Booties
Gwyneth Paltrow wore Christian Louboutin Coussin Caged Booties (available from Barneys New York , $1595) to the VBH Gallery in New York City last fall ( source ). Nappa leather taper toe caged ankle bootie with stacked platform, solid heel cap and back zip. 135mm thin stacked heel. Signature red leather sole. Available in Black. Made in Italy.
Christian Louboutin Candy Pumps
Pauline posted this fabulous picture over on our Shoeaholics Anonymous Fan Page (are you a fan yet?)… I saw these really over the top Louboutin’s at Neiman Marcus this week. I don’t know how much they cost because I was too intimated by them; sharp pointy studs, red patent leather, lace, zipper bow and trim, and of course the signature red on the bottom. I investigated and found them online at the Neiman Marcus website , and they are called “Candy”, no lie! And the price? $835. Happy Shoe Shopping! Christian Louboutin Candy Lace & Patent Spike Pump The boldest of hardware forms the perfect foil to feminine lace. Choose red patent leather with black lace or black/tonal. Goldtone hardware. Crescent cap toe with spikes. Zipper bow detail. Mesh lace shank with grosgrain trim. 4″ patent-covered heel. Signature red sole. Made in Italy.
Christian Louboutin Shopper and Pumps
Though Christian Louboutin is most famous for his red-soled shoes, the label does offer handbags and other accessories too. From the Resort Collection, check out this ribbon and chain print shopper . It’s the perfect bag for spring/summer 2010. This white canvas shopper tote features a red and gold ribbon and chain print. This bag has a front zippered pocket with a red tassel pull, red leather shoulder straps and silver hardware. Image: Neiman Marcus If you are going to get this bag, you should also consider the patent curve-heel pumps pictured with it. These sexy peep-toe pumps feature a curvy 4 7/10-inch heel and a platform sole. You can get the shopper and pumps right now at Neiman Marcus . The bag is priced at $695, while the shoes are $725. Image: Neiman Marcus Post from: Shoe Blitz
Christian Louboutin Python Bow Ballerina
When you think of Christian Louboutin , you think of sky-high heels with a red sole. However, today we have a pair of Louboutins that aren’t high at all — these Python Bow Ballerina flats ! These beige python flats are accented with black trim and a cute black bow on the vamp. Of course, they still feature the signature Christian Louboutin red sole . Image: Neiman Marcus If you are looking for a chic pair of designer shoes that are comfy too, these python flats are a good bet. They are available now at Neiman Marcus for $695. I think these would be a fantastic choice to wear when you are hosting a party. You can run around all night and tend to your guests’ needs while looking fabulous too! They are not availble to ship to Canada. Post from: Shoe Blitz