She describes how she collected homes, antiques, investments, and, of course, Manolo Blahnik shoes.
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Mr. Blahnik, the spiritual son of Vivier, is less ethereal, more of a court poet.
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Blahnik has been designing shoes since 1971, but became a household name when Carrie Bradshaw swooned over his gravity-defying stilettos.
The globe-trotting daughter of a former Cantonese diplomat is feisty and impassioned, like a stiletto-shod mashup of vintage Spice Girl and Manolo Blahnik.
At a recent cocktail party at New York's Connoisseur's Antique Fair, Manolo Blahnik-heeled women cooed over brightly colored and intricately patterned Afghan rugs.
"Manolo Blahnik's success skyrocketed as a result of Sex and the City, " says Paula Correri, accessory editor at Tobe Report, a retail consultancy.
Heels are never out of the question, even on the subway, and both the Barneys and Manolo Blahnik sale dates are entered religiously into calendars.
You might even see women hugging a pair of Louboutins tightly next to their bosoms or a few caressing the fur detailing on a pair of Manolo Blahnik boots.
Artists taking part in the show include Julian Opie, famed for designing a Blur album cover, film director Ken Loach, designer Zandra Rhodes, Turner Prize nominee Keith Tyson and shoe designer Manolo Blahnik.
Her dark, luxurious hair evoked Jacqueline Bisset, though some people compared her to Diane Von Furstenberg. ("I'm much prettier than she is her face is too broad, " she'd insist.) My mother was five foot four but stood taller in her signature Manolo Blahnik stilettos.
Edited by Vogue Features Director Eve MacSweeney, the book is made up of essays by authors including Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Karl Lagerfeld, Carly Simon, George Plimpton, Manolo Blahnik, Anjelica Huston and Joyce Carol Oates paired with iconic images that appeared in Vogue.
So when Victoria Beckham was pictured wearing the Manolo Blahnik "Monk" shoe designed for her spring 2013 show, the world was treated to a plethora of stories, the gist of which was: now that the queen of the towering heel was in flats, it was safe for the rest of us to wear them, too.
The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.
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