My shoes are not fashion, they are gestures. So says Blahnik in a book that lays out his designs as brightly colored whimsies, sketches deftly convey the essences of his creations. Drawings show shoes alone or with a hint of foot and leg, and yet there is so much energy and color in the 134 illustrations (125 in color) that they seem to wink and pirouette off the page. As designs, the shoes are salacious cartoons of themselves, curvy and heeled, bejeweled and shimmery. Celeb quotes, interspersed throughout, heighten the spiraling sense of posturing and play. Madonna says, they are as good as sex...

foreword anna wintour

about manolo andre leon talley

manolo at work michael roberts

without tradition we are nothing anna piaggi

the drawings

the 70s

the 80s

the 90s

the 2000s

liking'feets'eric boman

the step into possibilty amanda,lady harlech

captions

special thanks