23 Sept 2025
Some shoes become famous because of who designed them. Others because of who wore them. The Manolo Blahnik Hangisi managed both — and cemented its place in pop culture thanks to one fictional New Yorker with a shoe habit and a rent problem: Carrie Bradshaw.
Episode 2 of Pump Fiction takes us from Manolo’s Canary Islands childhood to the moment Mr. Big got down on one knee with a Hangisi instead of a diamond ring. Along the way, we explore how a single pair of satin pumps became shorthand for romance, obsession, and questionable financial decisions.
Here are three things you probably did not know about the Manolo Blahnik Hangisi — unless you have been hoarding them since 2008:
- Its name means “Which one?” in Turkish.
- It was inspired by 19th-century portraits.
- It nearly outgrew its creator.
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Come for Carrie’s proposal shoe, stay for the story of a shoemaker who accidentally created a global bridal cult.
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