Blahnik by Boman: Shoes, Photographs, Conversation | 
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| Author: Eric Boman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $85.00
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 112952
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 13.8 x 11.2 x 1
ISBN: 0811851168
Dewey Decimal Number: 391.4130222
EAN: 9780811851169
ASIN: 0811851168
Publication Date: October 13, 2005
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Condition: Brand new book may have a remainder mark SLIGHT SHELF WEAR ON DUSTCOVER AND TINY TEAR
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Product Description
Long before their supporting role in Sex and the City, Manolo Blahnik's shoes were legendary—exquisitely detailed, unabashedly luxurious, and impossibly sexy. The epitome of sophistication and taste, they have graced the feet of royalty, supermodels, and movie stars. In these breathtaking pictures by Blahnik's longtime friend, photographer Eric Boman, the shoes take center stage in a dazzling array of intriguing and often lighthearted scenes and settings. A white leather stiletto plays an incriminating role in a suggested crime worthy of Hitchcock. A pale green mule nestles among ferns in homage to Blahnik's recurring botanical themes. The straps of a sandal echo the strands of spaghetti in which it lays entwined. Boman's unerring eye and oddly keen understanding of Blahnik's creations make for spellbinding pictures, full of wit, playfulness, and sole. Elegant allusions to Blahnik's eclectic influences abound—from the cinema to history, from the natural world to art and literature. As covetable as a pair of Manolos, this is a book of consummate creativity, addictive power, and unrivaled individuality: a cult object on a cult designer.
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Great Seller!! January 19, 2008
Mark A. Thomas
My wife absolutely loved this!!!!! This has earned me so many points!! LOL Thank you.
Blahnik by Boman July 18, 2006
Frances Lynn
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just happened to be in Selfridges/London last year, coinciding with Eric Boman and Manolo Blahnik's book launch. There were queues and queues of eager fans lining up to get their newly purchased books autographed by the fashionable duo. It was all very civilised, even though security guards were holding back the frenzied mob, while Boman and Blahnik relentlessly signed with tireless good humour and charm.
Blahnik has been the ultimate cobbler to the stars since the Seventies, and Boman is a veteran, top photographer who's been photographing beautiful women for years (his most recent book, "Dames" show-cases his portrait-photogaphy). It's fortunate for Manolo that Eric came up with the novel idea of photographing his old friend's shoes. It was also conducive for the book that he supplied the witty 'photographic conversation,' for although Manolo's shoes are the most exquisite in the world, a book would have been pretty one dimensional with pedestrian sole snap-shots of his pumps without Eric's creative input.
Boman has not only managed to produce imaginative photographs of the beautiful shoes, but has elevated Manolo's footwear to museum status. Thanks to his original and highly imaginative photographic compositions, the elegant pumps have been transformed into classical portraits.
Boman and Blahnik's old friend Paloma Picasso has supplied the foreword, helping make this beautifully produced book a must have gift, especially for people with tasteful shoe fetishes and aficionados of superior glossy art books, the kind which are too exquisite to grace coffee tables.
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!! February 24, 2006
Salvatore Ruggiero (New York, NY United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The genius design combined with amazing photography and styling make for a journey of beauty.A must have for the collector of fashion and photgraphy books.
 Good creation to show you Manolo Blahnik shoe art. January 17, 2006
Tseng Chih Hung (Taipei, Taiwan)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am a photographer and also a high heels collector. There is a project in my mind since one year ago, I want to creat a book to present the art of high heel design, just like this book. I have many ideals. However when I saw this book, I think I need new ideals, or my friend will think that my work is just a copy.
I will rate 4 to 4.5 stars to this book.
shoes...no odor December 24, 2005
Beano Filipino (Cupertino, Ca. USA)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
like shoes? photos of shoes? buy this book!
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