A DECADE OF LOVE

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of MANOLO BLAHNIK’S most iconic and instantly recognisable style, Hangisi, Manolo Blahnik is delighted to announce the global launch of “A Decade of Love” an exclusive capsule collection of four Hangisi styles across three heel heights inspired by New York City.

First introduced in 2008, the Hangisi instantly became a global success. Originally created in pink, black and green for the Spring Summer 2008 collection, Manolo drew inspiration from Napoleon I, Josephine and Pauline Bonaparte.

‘I have always had a fondness for brilliant accessories, so we created a court shoe with this beautiful embellished buckle, which I found in Italy’. Since then, Hangisi has been produced in over 100 different materials and colour-ways and in seven different heel heights; it has also evolved into boots, mules, d’Orsay, flats, bags and belts.

The unforgettable blue version was a bespoke creation made exclusively for the film, Sex and the City. The shoe – far from being an incidental piece of costuming - plays a pivotal role in the plot, itself becoming a leading figure in the New York based script. Months after Mr. Big gilts Carrie, she returns to the dream closet Mr. Big built for her at the penthouse they were going to share as newly-weds to take the royal blue Hangisi she carefully placed in a shelf the first time she visited the walk-in closet. There Mr.Big asks Carrie to marry him, proposing to her with the now-iconic shoe. It’s the defining moment of an epic love story, sealed with the muchemulated blue pump.

Brides to be follow the famous adage “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” the resplendent royal blue Hangisi, though serendipitous in its creation, has firmly established its position as the unrivalled modern day ‘something blue.’

Fast forward to 2018 and the Hangisi still remains one of the brands best selling shoes. The rich blue satin pump paired with the iconic embellished buckle has become the pinnacle of luxury shoes and every woman’s fashion fantasy. Each buckle is beautifully handmade in Italy by skilled artisans and contains 144 dazzling crystals of the highest quality perfectly placed in broach-inspired setting.

For the 10th Anniversary, the iconic shoe is beautifully reinterpreted in New York City inspired prints and delicate embroideries that celebrate the Manolo woman and her long-standing love for this forever special shoe. An ode to the New York cocktail culture, the Cosmopolitan print is presented in pink, contrasting grey and black and shades of blue; a map marking New York’s famous scenery is created in luxurious detailed embroidery. In tribute to love itself, a love letter is immortalised in a shoe featuring a monochrome handwritten print; rounding of the collection is a re imagination of Carrie’s royal blue shoe, featuring A Decade of Love textural embroidery and a brandnew blue buckle -truly something blue and something new.

10 years on from the iconic Sex and the City shoe, Manolo Blahnik presents a coveted collector’s series of styles to mark a new chapter in the history of the much imitated but never equalled Hangisi, a celebration of A Decade of Love.