The Power of Blahnik Sandals

If ever Manolo Blahnik is well-known as a good source of high-heeled shoes and sexy stilettos, more of the credits should go to the quality of the brand itself rather than the honor that was created by the American TV series Sex and the City. For one, the brand has been in existence since 1973, decades since Sarah Jessica Parker and her Carrie name in SATC made waves in the ratings game.

Manolo Blahnik was born in the Canary Islands, studied in the University of Geneva, moved to Paris for further studies, and later figured his first shoe shop in London by acquiring the existing Zapata to build his own empire around it. Creating glamorous shoes is what his shop stood its finances by and it proved to be more of the company's strongest pillar when Hollywood models started to take notice. Parker is one of the many regulars that frequent Blahnik's place for amazing shoes and awesome heels that go well with the chic outfits they wear to parties and other glam functions. The amazingly high pairs of slip-ons -- with up to five and one half inch of heels -- designed by Blahnik are mainly found distinct through the embellishments of either beads, ribbons, or buckles.