For almost 40 years, Manolo Blahnik, the god of the high heel, has made inimitable women’s footwear. When Manolo won the Stiletto Award in 1998, the council of fashion designers described his designs as "collectibles for women whom barbies are too girlish and ferraris not girlish enough".
Blahnik’s essential vision is of a shoe as high as a tower, with a heel as thin as a toothpick. These are the shoes that have become footwear icons, known to fashionistas as simply Manolos — shoes that some people call ''limousine shoes,'' You can wear them, but walking in them becomes quite difficult and somewhat painful.
His shoes give the power to transform even the most practically minded woman into an elegant coltish coquette.
Blahnik’s essential vision is of a shoe as high as a tower, with a heel as thin as a toothpick. These are the shoes that have become footwear icons, known to fashionistas as simply Manolos — shoes that some people call ''limousine shoes,'' You can wear them, but walking in them becomes quite difficult and somewhat painful.
His shoes give the power to transform even the most practically minded woman into an elegant coltish coquette.
