Manolo Blahnik 2012

When Sex and the City disappeared from our screens Manolo Blahnik lost years of intense media exposure, but there are always reruns. When I lived in Battersea I walked past the Manolo Blahnik shop quite often because I had a friend who lived on Christchurch Street. Blahnik was big before SATC and will continue to be so as the shoes from his spring collection for 2012 clearly shows.



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Manolo Blahnik

I knew about Manolo Blahnik long before Sarah Jessica Parker started strutting around in his shoes as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. I used to walk past his head office on Old Church Street quite often as a friend of mine, Christoph, lived a few doors down. It was and is always fun to look at his window displays. The man really knows how to make beautiful shoes.


Today he is a household name and thanks to the American series mentioned above he is known from one end of the world to the next. The commercial value is unbelievable and he would have had to pay millions for advertising to reach the same result.

I suppose he is laughing all the way to the bank.

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