Don’t take my Manolo Blahniks

There are shoes, and then there are Manolos–Clare Coulson.

blueprint of Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik–with their vertiginously high heels, elegant lines and witty, extravagant designs, Manolo Blahnik’s shoes are quite unlike any others. They provoke the kind of barely contained passion saved for illicit liaisons - which goes some way to explaining why Madonna once declared Manolos to be “better than sex”.

When Carrie Bradshaw, the shoe-loving central character of the HBO TV series Sex And The City, took a wrong turn after lunch in SoHo she found herself on one of New York’s grungier side streets and face-to-face with a mugger. “Please sir,” she pleaded. “You can take my Fendi baguette, you can take my ring and my watch, but don’t take my Manolo Blahniks.”

Will Carrie end up being the old woman who lived in her shoes? It’s just a matter of time before the movie reveals the truth! Such was Carrie’s fear at one point in the series, when she found herself down and out in NYC. She was getting evicted and upon seeking financial salvation she realized how much money she had actually spent on her Manolos over the years — lots.

That wasn’t the only Manolo reference on the show. You may recall the other status accessory Carrie favored, the Fendi baguette, was stolen along with a pair of Manolos she had scored at a sample sale. As well, the plaid pair she bought to up her height to compete with her nemesis Natasha. Oh! And when she had to take her shoes off for her friend’s party and they got stolen, so she “registered” at the Manolo store to get her pair back. Shall I go on? The giddy scene in the Vogue fashion closet when she raced for a pair of “Oh my god, Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes, an urban shoe myth.” Who can resist the beautifully crafted, lightweight, slender shoe? Not Carrie.

Thanks in part to Sex And The City Manolo Blahnik has become one of the handful of designers whose name is synonymous with their product. In his case it is his Christian name, because “Manolo” is now used as slang to describe very expensive, very beautiful shoes: even by the millions of people who have never actually seen a pair of Manolo Blahniks and could not dream of spending $300 or $400 to buy them.

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