Manolo Blahnik

[Dulcisima]

Manolo's are super sexy...

 

[LostInNJ]

From Neiman Marcus:
The classic d'Orsay revamped with sexy patent leather and a high-stepping heel.
• Black patent leather.
• Pointed toe.
• 4 1/6" covered heel.
• "Chisiomod" is made in Italy.

Those are the quintesential Manolo's IMO...and I know I spelled that word wrong...I'm just to lazy to look it up in the diciontary

 

[msminicooper]

Manolo sample sale

Does anyone know the approximate date/month the Manolo sample sale is held in New York? Or even in London?

 

[liberty33r1b]

^yeah, i wanna know that too!!! please someone help.....

 

[mb117]

Manolo Blahnik
Aim: To get sandals for $100
How: The sale takes place every season at the Warwick Hotel from 9 a.m.-11 a.m.. What insiders don’t know is that the doors open up to the public after 11 a.m.. The only ones who know about this well-guarded secret? Loyalists who are in with the store clerks and friends of editors

newyorkmetro.com

NEW YORK — What’s a girl to do — buy Manolo Blahniks at $100 a pop or vote? Such was the dilemma fashion devotees grappled with at the Manolo sample sale on Election Day.

Well, they are the fashion flock, so you can guess which one won.

The earliest arrivals set up camp at the Warwick Hotel at 5 a.m. The doors, which opened “early” at 8:30, were manned by Manolo public relations girls wearing “Vote or Die!” T-shirts. Meanwhile, the adjacent holding pen contained a crowd of 25, ranging from fashion assistants to lawyers to manicurists. They’d been lucky enough to snare one of the early shopping slots before the general public arrived at 11 and anxiously waited to be let into the main room.

Naturally (and thankfully, proving that rabid fashion types don’t totally live in a bubble) the topic of conversation turned to the presidential race. WWD seized the opportunity to conduct an informal poll of 20 shoppers. Only three had voted, one of whom was an intellectual property lawyer who pulled the lever for President Bush at 6 a.m. Another was a fashion editor who made sure she got to the polls by 8:30 so she could make the sample sale. The third, a department store merchandiser, voted at 7:45 before heading up to the hotel.

One Condé Nast assistant declined to give her name or the title of the magazine she worked for because “I told my boss I was voting when I was really coming here.” She even covered her face with her handbag when a photographer showed up.

Inside the main selling room, the long rectangular card tables were covered with mounds of shoes. Shoppers tore through them, hoarding piles for themselves and unself-consciously plopping down on the floor to try on boots and pumps.

So was it worth it? “A pair of Carolines in crocodile for $400?” one fashion publicist, who’d been there since 5:15 and was voting after work, said of her purchase, which normally would retail for $1,975. “Yeah, life-changing.”

...chaos

WWD.com

i know this doesn't answer your question, but they are fun articles.

 

[msminicooper]

Thanks so much!

That was a cool article...

I already knew where the sale is I just need to find out the date of the next one so I CAN BOOK MY PLANE TICKET!

Someone out there must know!

 

[mb117]

since it is open to the public after 11, why not contact the manolo store directly.

212-582-3007

...If I had to guess a month, I would say mid-January...but I would contact the store to be certain.

 

[mirrra]

found wonderful photos from the upcoming book "Manolo Blahnik"
at www.stern.de photo Eric Boman

 

[Golden_butterfly]

^ Thanks for posting

 

[stilettogirl84]

found wonderful photos from the upcoming book "Manolo Blahnik"
at www.stern.de photo Eric Boman

pictures are fabulous!

 

[nay-k]

Oh my god
this is the most beautiful thread EVER!
first I am going to buy the blahnik by boman book immediatelly!!!!!!!!!
and I saw manolos here I have never seen before!!!
my favorite manolos of this season are:

 

[Lovin_It]

more

Think these are from last season - but I just love them - the texture looks so nice. Problem (for me) is that they are $2200!! ..... still I can wish!

 

[ckashie]

New season Manlolos... I'm posting my faves :

 

[Constance]

custom-made manolos

have been reading about custom made manolos for quite sometime

how and where can i avail of such services?

is there an additional cost?

how long before the shoes are ready?

thanks in advance

 

[stilettogirl84]

You have to physically go in to the Manolo store- in NYC, or I think theres another one or two stores somewhere- you can get up to a size 43, any color/ material / heel height, and it costs about 20% over regular retail depending on the material

 

[stilettogirl84]

OOOOOH!!!

 

[Constance]

You have to physically go in to the Manolo store- in NYC, or I think theres another one or two stores somewhere- you can get up to a size 43, any color/ material / heel height, and it costs about 20% over regular retail depending on the material

thanks.
can you "mix-match" features from different shoes?
and how long before you can get the shoes?

 

[stilettogirl84]

thanks.
can you "mix-match" features from different shoes?
and how long before you can get the shoes?

I don't know if you can mix/ match, but i imagine that it takes a long time to get them- several months at least

 

[nay-k]

don't like the manolos of this season.
but I would like to see some new paintings of him. does anybody know where I can find some new ones? does he actually publish them somewhere?
sometimes I like the paintings more than the shoe!

 

[Womanolo]

I've hinted to (alright, told) my loved ones I need the new album that's been brought out - it's a collaboration between Manolo Blahnik and his friend a photographer. There's an excellent picture in it of a pair of spaghetti strapped orange heels done to look like as if they were the actual pasta.