I’m a teacher at an all-girls high school. I need a pair of low-key heels to wear to Prom, graduation and a family wedding this spring. Something that will not break the bank.
Kristen
Manolo says, oh, how the Manolo well remembers the night of the grand prom at his alma mater, Our Lady of the Flaming Spleen Country Day School (who motto is still “The Wrathful Word Turneth Away Evil”).
How could anyone forget Sister Assumpta, looking like Ernest Borgnine in the wimple, standing at one side of the gymnasium dance floor, armed with something like the lifeguard’s hook, the long pole with the crook on the end.
If, during the slow jam, the bodies of the couples drifted too closely together, or the hand of the boy slipped too far down the back of the girl, Sister Assumpta would make her presence known, using her shepherd’s crook to forcefully yank the pair of would-be lovers back to propriety.
Of the course, the Manolo never had any problems on that score, indeed, for the young Manolo the prom was less about the slow-dancing with the girls, and more about the sartorial splendor. Finally, the Manolo’s customary Neo-Edwardian morning coat, embroidered waistcoat, and spats had found the appreciative audience!
Look here is the Wystere from AK Anne Klein, the nude patent pump that will work well for the graduation and the wedding, and will not the bank break.
Manolo says, why has no one until now told the Manolo about the work of the photographer Christian Tagliavini?
It is so wonderfully amusing, and made out of the cardboard.
Taking 13 months to complete, 1503 is largely inspired by the masters of the Renaissance, notably Agnolo di Cosimo (usually known as ‘Il Bronzino’) who was born in the same year as the title. Using cardboard & paper in place of material allows Tagliavini to design each item from the patterning to the final construction of form completely. In his series Dame Di Cartone (literal translation: ‘Cardboard Ladies’) several influences from art history & other eras are again present resulting in striking imagery.
From beginning to completion Tagliavini’s work is a labour of love. He admits that he enjoys the process as much as the resulting photograph, constructing an aesthetic from scratch he feels is incredibly satisfying from a creative & philosophical point of view. With as much done in situ as possible, including the illusory lengthening of the neck Tagliavini reduces the amount of postproduction needed thus retaining the immediacy of the image beautifully.
Monday, 30 January 2012 SHOEBLOGS (Jerome C. Rousseau) --
Manolo says, it is Monday and you are back at your desk, working to increase the gross national product of your home economy, and you have decided that it amazing how little things can substantially increase the quality of your life.
For the example, the grand nabobs at your office have recently seen fit to replace the old BunnOmatic coffee pot with the new, fancy-lad, single-serving pod machine which brews the perfect cup every time. The old way was fine, as long as you poured your cup from the pot in the first three minutes after it was produced. Later than that, the coffee tasted like the sludge scooped up from the floor of your brother’s garage. And now you must admit, that it is amazing what the good coffee can do for your mood at the place of the office.
Of the course, some of this natural enthusiasm for the fruit of the brown bean has been tempered by the overly bombastic manner in which the corporate panjandrums have introduced the improvement, with grandiloquent pronouncements and frequent reminders that ImInTech Corp “cares for its family of associates.”
This would not be so troublesome, except that over the past year nearly half the “family” has been “right-sized” out of existence, this while your CEO, Mr. Amenhotep, recently spent two millions of the dollars having the seats of his private jet reupholstered in crocodile and hippo leather.
But, at least you still have the job, and the coffee tastes all the sweeter for it.
Here is something else that will undoubtedly make your working day more pleasant…
No one much cares about Katie Price these days or ever, really but it's a guarantee that her picture will get posted when she shows us her boobs or crotch and today is the day Katie Price gives us a huge look at her snatch by spreading wide and showing us her panties. If you look closely you can see that Katie could use a good waxing but none the less here is Katie Price and her panties, upskirt photo for your Monday morning pleasure or pain. Enjoy.
It wouldn't be Monday without a boob post and Olivia Wilde gives us just that. Boobs hanging out of her shirt and a near nipple miss or hit ...either or. Olivia doesn't happen much here on this site. Is she a model? Actress? Who cares, as long as she has her boobs out, it's good enough for me. And you.
Here is Jennifer Love Hewitt trying her damnedest to look sexy. To me it looks like she is constipated which can happen when the jewels you bedazzle your vagina with happen to gravitate to a nether region. The guy is the best part actually, what a stink eye he is throwing the Hewitt.
I wasn't going to post this adorable dormouse clip because I hate losing any time out of my life (that I'll never get back) watching stupid videos. That said, this damn little dormouse is so freaking cute you have to click and listen. I am a little worried about the tiny critter it seems like he may have sleep apnea because he's a little too chubby ;) but it's adorable.
Jessica Simpson not only has a swollen belly she has huge lips now too. Jess woke up this morning with lips like sausages. Of course she tweeted this photo and had this to say:
Woke up looking like the lip injection fairy visited me in the night! Is this how pregnancy face begins?! Yikes!
Poor thing! You know, after the lips it's usually the nose that gets fat too. Jessica is destined to plump up everywhere just like a Ball Park Frank.
At the urging of a friend, I’m subjecting myself to a so-called “speed date”, where you spend five minutes each with twenty different people, trying to decide who you’d like to see a second time for a real date. My question, of course, is what shoes should I wear? I want to look confident but approachable, sexy but demurely so. Please help.
Shannon
Manolo says, the romance, it is not dead! It is only sleeping!
“So, what do you do,” asks the Shannon.
Number 1: “This and that,” says the pale man with the lank hair and incipient potbelly, “you know, the usual. Little of this, little of that. Whatever gets me by, eh?”
DING!
Number 8: “I work for a hedge fund,” says the handsome man with the beady eyes, “one that specializes in foreclosing on low-income residential properties in distress. I’m the one who makes sure that the deadbeats are tossed out into the street. Ha, ha, ha!”
DING!
Number 13: “Real estate, babay! Big money real estate!”
DING!
Number 17: “I owned the liquor store, with my cousin, Hamid. But, he is now in Guantanamo Bay.”
DING!
Number 20: “I’m a park ranger,” says the square-jawed fellow with the twinkling brown eyes, “It’s a good job. Gives me a lot of time to think, lots of time to work on my poetry. On the weekends, when I’m not running triathlons, I like to volunteer at an animal shelter.”
