In the early rooms we can admire heels with fur, lace-up, and sicilian corals. In Pic1, "Permin" pumps (2011-2012 - suede and fur shoes). Moving to subsequent rooms showcases shield multicolor leather shoes from 70's till now, ankle-boots as well as crazy neon fischerman-boots (resulting by a collaboration with Vetements), denim-country boots, bone bottoms and further fringes.

A couple of rooms later there's a glamorous heel waiting for your eyes in a showcase among eleven shoes in satin. It's "Pacrabor" ( a gold brocade sandal with hand embroidery made in 2015 - Pic2). I love this color comb. Maybe that' s why they were like calling me at the end of that corridor!

Then, we can move through further showcases with pumps as from Disney fairytales ("Guagnione" pumps (2011-2012) and "Gonul" mule (2008) in gold-velvet-lilly-white satin). A curious jump into japanese culture then faces us on strange sandals inspired to Geishas in spotted pony with aluminium four pronged heels. This is "Jetta" (2011), indeed, Pic3. At the beginning I was quite wondering about its comfort. It was not one of my favourite but here it deserves special mention as much as it is so unique. Leave back the Japanese room to move to an exotic eastern room with floral-blu printed walls hosting "savage" shoes inspired to Africa and Russia with further leather, fringes, patched style, tartan, fur, army details. 

Then stop in one of my favourite rooms of this exhibition dedicated to SS2016 where flowers, fruits, trees, leaves and parfums welcome us in a fairy atmosphere. The fab "Clizia" boots are here (Pic4): mesh ankle-boots decorated with chiffon and vinyl flowers and glass beads. I loved this section where the panel explained that collection called "Nature", where a botanic flavour reminds viewer to Manolo Blanhìk childhood in Canary Islands and his fascination to " formal qualities of flowers".
The artist designed a shoe included in this collection called "Lagartija" (lizard - here on the right), "which is the result of this everlasting memory of his childhood". Nature world has been a perennial inspiring source for MB ever since his first collection made for the already mentioned Ossie Clark in 1972: a pair of shoes with featuring red suede cherries with ivy.

Subsequently, an entire room regards Marie-Antoinette movie, as already mentioned. Shoes in this room show his studies on that age to achieve results as performed in this  movie (Pic5 - "Tourzel", satin mule with crystal buckle which I love the color of): a TV at the end of this section shows some scenes from that film. 

Special mention to the physics-challenging heels in the subsequent sections show once more the abilities and studies of this artist in Architecture and Art: Pic6, "Armadillo" (1999) mule closed to "Plutania" (2012). His interest in nature comes back somehow anticipating the YSL pumps introduced during the last Paris Fashion Week by Anthony Vaccarello's Collection as topic of the previous post to this blog (0.6).