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Dream Shoes from Manolo Blahnik

Irene — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:26:20 +0000

Shoes created by Manolo Blahnik are always recognizable: a narrow toe, a high heel and something unique in material, design or adornment. For more than a 30 year history of the brand Manolo Blahnik has designed lots of shoes that have become real works of art. The designer has unique steady style but he keeps running bold experiments and searching fresh ideas. That makes each pair of his shoes special and inimitable.

The most beloved models among Blahnik’s creations are pumps with a stiletto heel. The designer takes classic shapes as a basis and then adds some distinctive features. He paints shoes in bright colors or adorns straps with stones, feathers, buckles.

One of the favorite shoes for lots of fashion lovers is a model featuring extremely thin straps that make an emphasis on how sexual a female foot looks. By the way, Uma Thurman has already tried them on.

Actually, among Manolo Blahnik fans there are a great number of celebrities. For example, Madonna, Electra, Sarah Jessica Parker, Hillary Duff, Kate Moss and so on and so forth. Interesting to know that in a wardrobe of Diane von Furstenberg, well known designer, are kept more than 80 pair of Blahnik masterpieces. Impressive, yeah? There is no doubt Celebrities Go Mad about Shoes.

The most famous fan of the designer is doubtlessly Sarah Jessica Parker. On the screen Carrie Bradshow in Sex and the City always wore shoes from Manolo, spoke about them all the time and even meeting a thief begged to steal anything he wanted but for her favorite pair of sandals.

So it is a pity that in a new series that is about to come out the stage director has decided to change Manolo for Christian Louboutin. Though, Blahnik seems to be glad. According to his words, he has never dreamt of being famous but after Sex and the City every passer-by recognizes him, so he has got tired of being in the limelight.

I wonder that Manolo Blahnik brand has no designer stuff as any other brand does. Each pair of shoes is the hard work of Manolo.

Flower Shoes by Michel Tcherevkoff

Irene — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:36:30 +0000

The name of Michel Tcherevkoff is getting more and more popular from day to day. Michel is a famous designer known for his imagination and peculiarity. The designer was born in Paris in a Russian family. He graduated from a law school and after studying he took up photography. At that time Michel Tcherevkoff moved to New York where he has been living till today. It was in New York where he began the career of photographer in advertising.

But how did he make such an unusual collection, how did this idea come into his mind? It was then that he was making an advertisement for a cosmetic company. One of the flowers seemed to him look like a female shoe. He began to develop this idea and so the famous collection Shoe Fleur appeared. The designer became famous very quickly. All his exhibitions are a success.

You can see numerous handbags and shoes made of real flowers and leaves taken from nature and turned into a masterpiece with the help of camera and Photoshop. It’s a pity that you can only adore these shoes but can’t wear them. Though fashion lovers would do it with a great pleasure, don’t they?

All of these flowers Michel Tcherevkoff buys at the market and then spends all his efforts and time creating new miracles.

In the result of his infinite fantasies the book “Shoe Fleur” came out. It consists of 4 parts: Fall, Spring, Resort and Bridal. Here you can also find 100 photos of flower shoes and handbags.

Michel considers the collection his hobby. According to the designer, everybody ought to have hobby. Thus life has not only job and routine but pleasure as well.
Michel Tcherevkoff has such clients as Canon, EMI, Valentino, Missoni, Prescriptives, Maybelline and L’Oreal. He has received lots of awards and gained the world popularity.

Yummy Red Shoes

Irene — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:44:16 +0000

There were times when red boots were the privilege of emperors. Nowadays every person can enjoy the footwear of red color, it is popular among women all over the world. Such footwear looks especially great with dark tints(grey, black, dark blue) of clothes. After all, a pair of red shoes can bring brightness and freshness in any boring image. But how to choose red footwear and what is better to wear with it? There are lots of questions to discuss. Let’s take a look at some yummy red shoes.

J Shoes Florence Shoes

These shoes will perfectly go with jeans and pipes. You will certainly stand out in these edgy loafers by J Shoes. The model is set in shiny patent leather or soft suede upper. It is designed with a cotton bow with suede or patent aglets to set a polished and sophisticated look. Lined in leather and cushioning insole. Constructed with flat traction leather outsole and 3 inch stacked leather heel.

This footwear is for everyday use. The Retro flats feature a peep toe and leather upper. Great traction with the rubber sole bottom. The model is created for both stylish and active women.

Such red shoes can look in different ways depending on what you wear with them. For example, they look festive with black; fresh with white; funny and unusual with blue. Anyway red shoes look bright and stylish. The thing is to stay within reasonable limits. Buying red shoes, think it over carefully where to put on such footwear and what of your clothes will go with it. If you do that you are sure to be in the centre of attention.

Celebriries Go Mad About Shoes!

Irene — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:49:08 +0000

Often we try to persuade ourselves that celebrities are ordinary people with ordinary tastes. However, I can hardly believe in this. The majority of them, for example, go mad about shoes.
The well-known singer Celine Dion once said that she has 3 thousand different pairs of shoes. The singer confessed that shopping for her is a real problem. She can hardly stop.
Even some men have a similar disease. Elton John is the owner of more than a thousand pairs of shoes.

Paris Hilton travels around the world, boosting Paris Hilton Footwear Collection. However the star doesn’t carry these shoes – she has about 400 pairs of footwear, moreover each pair is custom-made (on the one hand, it is connected with her capriciousness, but on the other hand, the star has the big size of the foot).

The actress Jessica Alba collects footwear as well. Footwear occupies two rooms in her house. What is surprising is that in everyday life Alba carries nothing but slippers. She needs heels only for official events which take place approximately once a week. Once Jessica paid over 40 thousand dollars for a pair of shoes from Celine collection.

Avril Lavin’s favorite footwear is sneakers. However, she has no favorite shoe brand, therefore the singer buys up everything she likes! “I have Converse sneakers, Dickies and Osiris as well. I don’t know for sure how many…but over a hundred.”

David Beckham is very picky about his footwear, it is important for him from a professional point of view. That’s why his football boots are custom-made. The trouble is he puts on such football boots only once.

Beckham’s wife Victoria buys a pair of shoes from each Christian Louboutin collection. Can you imagine that? Victoria is so mad about heels that in case there’s no her size, she buys a bigger one and carries it putting some paper in it so that not to slip out.

In short, stars’ madness about footwear is obvious. Many of them even launch own shoe lines. And when their closets are replete with numerous boxes with footwear, stars sell them at auctions considerably raising their own popularity.

Timberland - Fall/Winter 2009-2010

Irene — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:58:53 +0000

Timberland footwear brand does not belong to Fashion Houses with century-long histories, and is not represented at the High Fashion weeks in Milan or Paris. Nevertheless, the most famous creation by the brand’s designers – the yellow boots – are exhibited at the London Museum of International Contemporary Design and is sold at the famous London store - the Selfridges. In fact, “yellow boots” are so closely associated with the brand, that if asked, any American would easily make the connection: Yellow Boots - Timberland.

The legend has it, that the color of the shoe – the bright yellow - was not chosen at random. The shoe was intentionally made to stand out in the forest environment, so that the woodsmen, who were by the way the target audience for the shoe, would not drop timber on each other when working. This version is supported by the name of the brand itself – Timberland, and the company’s logo - American oak.

The models of the last couple of seasons are notable in that they all tend to carry that new trend in Timberland shoes, where conventional American style is being replaced with the new shapes and lineament of footwear for men.

The new Fall Winter Collection continues to surprise us with new ideas, implemented into the models, where classical features are beautifully combined with innovative solutions and high-quality materials.

The shoes in this collection are primarily inspired by the shoes of the English workers in the 30-s. The shoes were made of rough materials and were produced according to a special technology. Looks like the polished worn out leather, along with big buckles and zippers are the distinguishing elements of this season’s Timberland shoes. The collection is divided into three styles - Colrain (military style), Counterpane (ultrastylish shoes) and Tackhead (reflection of the new inventive Timberland style).

Celebrities Choose New Balance

Irene — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:09:25 +0000

Throughout the years New Balance brand has established itself as a reliable, high quality, inexpensive shoe producer, who spends a minimum amount of time and effort on advertising. The philosophy of the company lies in the fact that no particular emphasis is given to any specific shoe.

Another interesting point is that instead of giving their shoe styles sophisticated and catchy names, like most of the other shoe manufacturers do, New Balance assigns a number to each of the styles. When the shoe is redesigned, the style is marked up by one. The mystery of what those four or three digits in the name of the style are is yet to be resolved by the general public.

Today, given the number of appearances by world celebrities made when wearing New Balance shoes, it looks like the trend of no or, better to say, little advertising, is about to change. It all started with professional NBA basketball players (Charlie Bell of Milwakee Bucks and Matt Bonner of San Antonio Spurs), who wore New Balance shoes (BB 8026 and BB904) during a couple of games.

The trendency is now being picked up by Hollywood stars, who all of a sudden seem to be in love with New Balance Styles. Kanye West became the first celebrity to appear in public wearing the exclusive United Arrows x New Balance 997.5 while accompanied by his bold girlfriend. Kanye West was also spotted wearing the same pair of sneakers during the High Fashion Week in London.

Other less glamorous Hollywood stars, such as Hayden Christensen, Seth Rogen and Eric Dane also gave in to the New Balance fever. While Christensen chooses classical running shoes New Balance U420BG, Dane preferred a more popular New Balance style - New Balance M1400LLV.

Now, why the celebrities chose to wear New Balance is a big question. Time will show whether this is a conscientious step in the direction of increased advertising volumes, or a willing choice of Hollywood.

Boots From A Fairy-Tale

Ann — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:15:53 +0000

Strang. Japanese. Fashionable.

Ann — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:29:18 +0000

Ed Hardy Issues Evening Shoes

Ann — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:37:21 +0000

A popular teenage brand Ed Hardy has surprised the educated public. The company, that became famous due to bright models of different types – mainly sneakers, boots, keds and everything that is useful for the active lifestyle of an urban youngster – decided to offer its customers female evening shoes.
A bright collection with the company’s print (that looks like a tatoo) got the name Stacey. All the shoes have a 10-11 cm heel. An average shop price of these shoes amounts to $ 165

Bigfoot Is Real! And He Wears Shoes!

Ann — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:40:15 +0000