Rihanna’s collaboration with Manolo Blahnik – Denim Desserts – have been out since May 5. This being a collab none of us will ever be able to afford, the shoes cost betweet $895 to $3,995, let’s take a look at some of the few people with major work benefits (or just rich enough) to try on the ”9 to 5” showstoppers.
First up we have JLo, who wore the boots in her Ain’t Yo Mama music video. Rihanna sent her the boots herself and JLo decided they were too bomb not to be in the video.
She recently did a Q&A on her Facebook page in which she talked about how it was to dance in them.
”They were hard to dance in. Everybody else was dancing, as you see, in kinda like combat boots and sneakers, and I walked out to the set and I was like, ‘Nobody wearing heels but me? OK!’ It was on concrete, outside, so it wasn’t the easiest boot to ever dance in, but we pulled it off.”
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley has also attempted to ”dance” in the $3,995 denim foot/legwear.
And then there’s ELLE editors Julie Schott, Sally Holmes, and Leah Chernikoff who were sent out by Nikki Ogunnaike, senior fashion editor at Elle, to try them out on the streets of New York.
”These boots are Attention Seeking 101. If Nikki blessed me with my own pair (size 38) I would wear the shit out of these with a sweatshirt and no pants every day. 9 to 5 boot, STAY.” – Julie Schott
”First off, they are HIGH, which makes them hard to walk in. Second, they’re fully lined in leather, which makes them sweaty to walk in. And while they look KILLER on Rihanna, they were not the most flattering on my bod.” – Sally Holmes
”When I put them on, something happened. The woman next to me told me how much she loved them. She told me she’d wear them in a heartbeat with ”really tight leggings.” I felt a kinship with her and felt emboldened: I mugged for the camera. Guys passed me and looked puzzled. But the women, they got it. And that’s what’s nice about these boots and Rihanna’s style in general. It’s for herself and for other women. Everyone else can take a seat.” – Leah Chernikoff
ELLE isn’t the only magazine wanting to try the badgals on. Glamour’s Caroline Solomon did the same, afterwards admitting ”they’re not the most flattering boots in the world, and I kinda felt like the Michelin man wearing denim ski pants chopped off at the crotch. But no matter, because like I said before, Yolo with a RiRi Manolo.”
Announcing the collaboration, Rihanna told Vogue UK:
”The day I see a woman in the street wearing my shoes…I am sorry for that woman, because I’m going to literally run after her, shouting, ‘Stop! Selfie! Who are you? Where did you get them?’”.
She’ll have to tweet her but what appears to be a ”regular human being with a Twitter account” has been spottet rocking the boots in front of her bedroom mirror.
@rihanna When bae knows how to Kiss It Better ???? Keep up the gr8t work u r a Legendary Fashion Icon & Cr8ter?? pic.twitter.com/q4eHoMsiZX
— Safari Gostosa (@Safari_Gostosa) May 11, 2016
And one of Riri’s personal favorites: Winnie Harlow:
Last but not least, Rihanna herself during a lil’ casual outing in NYC.
