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6 hours ago PAPIERDOLL -- So sometime around last week we reclaimed our name on Youtube and all of a sudden everyone in the Queendom (the men too, all two of them) started uploading videos and making videos their favorites. Now our channel on Youtube is populated with videos from runway shows and Lykke Li (buy her album, NOW) and [...]
Despite the three-inch wedge heels on her black patent leather shoes, after hours of walking, Ms. Saujani, a former hedge-fund general counsel and a successful political fund-raiser, seemed as calmly cheerful as she did at the outset of the day.
Finally, as we returned to her office, I asked: About those shoes?
“They’re the Kate Spade wedges,” she said, sagging slightly, as if she had only just then been reminded that she had feet. “They’re these politician-woman shoes.”
She had gotten the tip from someone who worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton. They are apparently something of an “it” shoe right now for women in politics: Ms. Saujani said that Kathleen M. Rice, who is running for attorney general, also wore them (a photograph on Ms. Rice’s Facebook page bears that out). The chief of staff for a prominent woman in Congress told me that she, too, religiously relied on her Kate Spade wedge heels (though she spoke on the condition of anonymity because she preferred not to be known for her brand of footwear).
“They’re very comfy,” said Annie Mullaly, Ms. Saujani’s finance director. “They’re like Crocs. You’ll see them everywhere once you’ve identified them.”
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But the Kate Spade wedge heels are not just one candidate’s shoes. They seem to be the shoes of a circle of younger women aspiring to power or already in it, women directly and indirectly passing on to one another ways of navigating the particular challenges of being a woman in the public eye. A woman must look put-together, but not as if she is a slave to fashion; she must look groomed, but never be spotted grooming.
That is all well and good if you want to look like the politician, however, if your tastes run to the slightly more aggressive, and you wish perhaps to make the statement on the campaign trail…
With these on your feets, you would not ask for the votes, you would command them!
P.S. The Manolo has long been the fan of the Kate Spade shoes, for exactly the reason cited above, they are well-made, reasonably comfortable, and perfectly suitable for the working girl.
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.
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 PAPIERDOLL -- Apparently Christina Hendricks has a heck of a time scaring up a dress for awards ceremony’s like last Sunday’s Emmys, where she wore Zac Posen. “People have been saying some nice, wonderful things about me. Yet not one designer in town will loan me a dress,” Hendricks, 35, told Scottland’s Daily Record. “They only lend [...]
Manolo says, here are the Manolo’s favorites from the Carpet of Red from the last evening.
Susan Sarandon…
This is the lovely, restrained, classic black gown, with the proper amount of glamour, and unlike many of her most recent outfits, does not display her magnficent Sofia-Lorenesque bosom overly much in the vulgar manner.
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Emily Deschanel…
Few are the times the Manolo can recall bangs working for such the august occasion, but here they go marvelously with Emily Deschanel’s tiered purple gown. The look is fun without being silly.
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Kim Kardashian..
It is too bad she and her family are such awful, grasping people, because she is undeniably beautiful, and her Cleopatra-esque dress is perfectly suited to her coloration and features. Gorgeous.
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Lea Michele…
Ayyyy! This is perhaps the Manolo’s favorite of the entire evening. This is all about proportion, femininity, and exactly the correct accessorizing and hair. This is the prime example of how the great outfit can completely transform someone into utterly super fantastic!
Manolo says, among the trends the Manolo detected at the Awards of the Emmys last evening was the peoples who’ve decided to just say “the Hell with it.”
Krya Sedgwick reports that Louis Licari was was all booked up.
Well, at least the Beau Bridges dyed his eyebrows.
Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father’s persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late.
SCENE
Hospital Room
DOCTOR
(pulling sheet over corpse)
I’m sorry Mr. Cheyenne, you’re too late
CHEYENNE
Nooooooooo! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy, God, Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Arggggghgle-barggggghgle!
(falls to floor in agony. Copious weeping. Gnashing of teeth).
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Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father’s humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller – an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father’s nemesis.
As his quest unfolds, Cheyenne is reawakened by the people he encounters and his journey is transformed into one of reconciliation and self discovery.
SCENE
County Store in Mississippi
CHEYENNE
(holding out black and white photo of smiling Nazi.)
Excuse me, have you seen this man?
MAN LEANING AGAINST CRACKER BARREL, WHITTLING
(spits tobacco juice into dirt near sleeping hound)
Nope.
CHEYENNE
(he squats in the dust near the porch, and rocks back on his heels. Tentatively he reaches out and pets the dog.)
Are you sure?
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As his date with destiny arrives and he tracks down Muller, Cheyenne must finally decide if it is redemption he seeks ….or revenge.
ALOISE MULLER
(extending briefcase full of gems)
You are ze smart young man, I could share some of zese diamonds vit you, to forget about what you have learned.
CHEYENNE
(waving gun)
I don’t want your filthy blood diamonds. You persecuted my father!
ALOISE MULLER
(whips out knife and attacks, knocking the pistol from CHEYENNE’S hand.)
Zen you must die, filthy rockstar pig-dog!
( As the pair struggle the diamonds are spilled into the water below, where they glistening like so many priceless gems in Manhattan drinking water.)
ALOISE MULLER
No! Not my precious diamonds!!!!!
(He slashes out angrily, misses and falls on his own blade, and dies.)
CHEYENNE
(falls to knees, raises hands in supplication)
Nooooooooo! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy, God, Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! Arggggghgle-barggggghgle!
