Nike's new Air Jordan shoe: Ann Arbor area's hottest Black Friday item?

The shoe is called the Air Jordan III Black/Cement, and it's highly anticipated, said Ida Hendrix, general manager for Briarwood Mall.

Hendrix said Briarwood doesn't typically get customers waiting in line outside the mall doors before Black Friday opening since there are five entrances, but there will be customers waiting to buy the new shoes at Champs Sports and Foot Locker.

“This particular release has been anticipated for a very long time,” she said.

Champs will open at midnight Thursday, along with at least 21 other stores at Briarwood. The shoe will be available as soon as the store opens.

Foot Locker has yet to announce what time on Friday it will begin selling the Air Jordan, but as of Tuesday afternoon, the store planned to open at 4 a.m. with the rest of the Briarwood stores.

Ty Mopkins of Ypsilanti's Puffer Red's and Jus Shooz in Wayne, said there is a huge amount of interest in the shoe release and people will be standing outside both stores before they open at 10 a.m. on Friday.

“There will for sure be people waiting in line,” he said. “We get maybe 50 to 100 calls a day for the shoe.”

The Air Jordan III Black/Cement sells for $160, and don't expect it to be marked down for Black Friday sales, Mopkins said.

“The shoes we get here are limited and really exclusive,” he said. “Normally we don't mark them down because the new products come out and the companies don't allow it.”

There will be another Air Jordan shoe release on Dec. 23, and Mopkins said sales for that one will be “bigger than any other shoe.”

Manolo Blahnik shoes: Cinderella's Mary Jane!

Today we return to a timeless classic, the Campari Mary Jane of Manolo Blahnik shoes for years on the crest of the wave for their ability to combine a romantic and elegant, with a touch of class and modernity that are a bit 'all the characteristics that a woman wants in a shoe, or elements that would reflect his personality. The Campari Mary Jane, who owe their fame among other things, to "advertise" that the model has received in the American series "Sex and the City really become an evergreen, and many of us it can only give pleasure.

The success of Campari recently that Manolo Blahnik has chosen to collaborate with the famous jewelry brand Tous , to transform its shoe charms jewelry, which confirms the passion for a shoe that is really special.

Then are so many brands that choose to reinterpret it according to his own vision of fashion, as has happened with the spring / summer 2011 Prada , eccentric but beautiful.

The model that we propose again Campari Mary Jane is now one of the most romantic, in fact I immediately associated with fairy tales and Cinderella in particular. A prince who gives you a shoe so I will not get married? Maybe someone will have to say about the color, I think this is to make the special model, as well as a more rounded shape than the Mary Jane rectory.

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