Many people especially guys would be wondering who the heck is Jimmy Choo AND Manolo Blahnik.. well girls, educate them! but then i don't think many girls would know too.. haha.. okay, here's some info about them :-
Jimmy Choo
Was born in Penang, Malaysia in 1961 into a family of shoe makers. He made his first shoe when he was only 11 years old. He attended Cordwainers's Technical College in London and the London College of Fashion. All Jimmy Choo Couture shoes are hand-made, his unrivalled craftsmanship is demonstrated with obsessive attention to detail. Jimmy Choo Couture Shoes compliment the very finest designer clothing.
Jimmy Choo's style is always elegant, feminine and occasionally seductive. Jimmy Choo Couture shoes were favoured by the Princess of Wales, who would buy one style in several colours for evening wear and to coordinate with her day suits. Jimmy Choo lost count of the number of shoes he made for Princess Diana. After the separation she could frequently be seen in his delicate high-heeled shoes, a style that she could not wear when walking with her shorter husband.
isn't this piece beautiful? it's simple and pretty *drool*
one of Jimmy Choo's store and this store is at Fifth Avenue
Manolo Blahnik
Born in Santa Cruz de la Palma in the Canary Islands in 1942, Manolo Blahnik was brought up there on the banana plantation owned by his Czech father and Spanish mother. He and his younger sister Evangelina were educated at home rather than being sent away to school.
The family often travelled to Paris and Madrid, where his parents ordered clothes from his mother’s favourite couturiers, like Cristobál Balenciaga, and his father’s tailor. Sometimes his mother improvised and she persuaded the local Canary Islands cobbler to teach her how to make Catalan espadrilles from ribbons and laces. Manolo loved to watch her making them.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Blahnik concentrated on mastering the techniques of shoe-making by finding the best possible factories to work with and studying them carefully.The process of creating a Manolo Blahnik shoe begins with Manolo sketching it at home in Bath, his London office or one of his northern Italian factories with a Tombo Japanese brush pen in three minutes of “firm, assured hand movements followed by precise, sharp little jabs as the details are fitted in”. He then takes up to a day to carve the last – usually from beechwood – and then sculpts the the heel, which is carved first on the machine, then chiseled and filed by hand. When Blahnik is satisfied, an aluminium mould is made of the last and then the plastic last from which the shoe will be made.
Ossie, a later version of a shoe designed for Ossie Clark in 1972
Illustration: Manolo Blahnik
Unpublished drawing by Manolo Blahnik of fantasy summer shoes, 2000
Stilettos are like diamonds.. girls' best friend.. although there's some studies showing that stilettos are not good for health, but... oh well.. what the hell.. it makes a woman feel sexy wearing it.. more confident and it also gives that S body shape that we always wanted.. for me, i'd settle for no less than 3 inches of stilettos..
Right now, i can't afford any shoes from Jimmy Choo AND Manolo Blahnik.. a Choo will cost me about USD 400 at least.. darn! but the good news is that Jimmy Choo will open his first shoe shop in Singapore and the next one will be in Malaysia (early next year) keeping my fingers cross.. i'd want to own my OWN Choo! hehe.. which means i gotta work harder and find the extra money for it..
All i could afford now is just Vincci shoes! stacks of them.. from sandals to 4 inches stilettos.. haha.. keeping most of it in my car boot.. don't you dare to steal my shoes.. i have my Viper alarm to protect them.. muahahaha...
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