"If Manolo has an Achilles’ heel, it is his sweet tooth, and so, consequently, the shoes are confectionary—high-glucose bonbons for the foot. A lover of opera (the more histrionically tortured the diva the better), Manolo naturally bestows upon his shoes their own peculiar music—the rhythmic staccato of stilettos striking parquet, the dry rattle of pearls swinging from the vamps of mules, the breezy rustle of raffia." [Source]
