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Carlos Santana Designs Huwwwat?

Carlos Santana designs women’s shoes. Yes, that Carlos Santana. You know, the multiple Grammy award winning Mexican legendary guitarist. He and his wife, Deborah launched together with Brown Shoe Company, Carlos by Carlos Santana

The shoes reflect the same passion, artistry, and energy generated by legendary rock icon Carlos Santana’s music. Carlos by Carlos Santana shoes are designed for women looking for hip and fashionable footwear that captures their style.

Although Carlos does not design the footwear himself, he is part of the design process. The interpretation of the multi-cultural, colorful imagery that surrounds Santana’s music brings the shoes to life. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Carlos by Carlos Santana shoes will be donated to the Milagro Foundation, which partners with the nonprofit community to serve the needs of children and youth. Started in 1998 by Carlos and Deborah Santana, the foundation supports educational efforts to help children and youth live healthy lives, literate lives and culturally enriched lives.

They’re actually not bad. In fact I like the printed ones:

And this one is reminiscent of vintage rock and roll shaggadelic posters of the 60’s and 70’s, the swirly/floral patterns are somewhat Pucci-esque;

Now wouldn’t be nice if I can have the following posters as prints for shoes:


The Who


Pink Floyd


Canned Heat


Canned Heat


Bob Dylan

These posters from the hippie rock and roll era are amazing, wala pang Photoshop nun, no CTRL+Z, everything was done manually and no len’s flare or bevel emboss abuse either. I wonder if those designers have to be on Lucy-in-the-Sky-with-Diamonds to come up with such crazy candy colors.

Medyo na-iimagine ko na yung mukha ng friends kong kilala si Carlos Santana. Hey Des, cute shoes! Then I answer, yes it’s by Carlos Santa… you know…that guitar legend, he’s in touch with his feminine side now. But then again, I rarely find straight men comment on shoes, maybe except for Ego. HAHAHAHA. When a guy says “hey, cute shoes”, we can assume he is straight but when he says “hey, cute cork-wedge-patent-flora-and-fauna-printed-anna-sui-fall-winter-2008-collection shoes” LOL, that’s a red flag right there.

Which reminds me, once I was sifting through a lot of resumes. I read this resume from a guy, about 28 years old, management/business graduate from a top university, with this and that credentials — in short he really sounded “gwapo” then the last section of his resume reads; Interests: fashion and shoes! Oh well too bad he’s overqualified for the position or we could have been together right now…shopping for shoes.

”Don’t tap those little last-season Prada shoes at me, honey”

Enrique, the gay pool cleaner
Legally Blonde

Separated at birth:

Carlos Santana, Woodstock 69 and Chris Cornell, post-Soundgarden days

Carlos Santana, Woodstock 69 and Chris Cornell, totally irrelevant to the topic.