She describes how she collected homes, antiques, investments, and, of course, Manolo Blahnik shoes.
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He has all the experience required behind him in the guise of former Once boss Manolo Saiz.
But the boys were only eleven, and the affair was broken up by a priest and schoolmaster named Manolo.
Nearly all the bullfighting in Spain, and much of it in Latin America, was under the control of Manolo Chopera.
Two other former cycling team officials, Manolo Saiz and Vicente Belda, were cleared, as was Fuentes' sister and fellow doctor Yolanda.
"We are as committed as ever to the U.S. market, " Manolo Sanchez, chief executive of BBVA Compass, said in an interview.
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.
An energetic young man, Lolo Martinez, runs the place while his brothers and sisters wait tables and his mother and father, Churre and Manolo, do the cooking.
Manuel Martinez, as he then was (Manolo Chopera is an untranslatable slang name everyone called him), had little enthusiasm for engineering and preferred to work with horses.
In the case of the HBO hit series Sex and the City which concluded its run in 2004, these have been some pretty big Manolo Blahniks to fill.
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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.
Goals from Fredy Guarin and Rodrigo Palacio put Inter in a commanding position but two goals in four minutes from Alessandro Diamanti and Manolo Gabbiadini pushed the match into extra time.
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In the bar's seating area, patrons are rather eccentrically greeted by a stuffed giraffe in one corner and a pair of Manolo Blahniks, mounted like a hunting trophy in a glass box.
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.
The cupcakes Sozzi refers to are those made famous by Bradshaw and her Manolo-clad gal pals back in 2000, when the gang first stopped by the West Village branch of Magnolia Bakery to snack on Red Velvets.
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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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