Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik
Manuel "Manolo" Blahnik Rodríguez CBE, is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth28 November 1942
CountrySpain
slovenly
slovenly and outwardly repulsive. But at the same time, is there not something magnetic?
anyone bothers express
In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.
The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
reading shoes wish
I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
loyalty sound wanted
] I'm loyal to my thoughts, to my friends. This is what I really like the best. Loyalty. Sounds goody-goody. Maybe that's not the one you wanted.
i-like-you school kids
I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by whatever, it's not there. The kids today-what the hell are they going to be? I like young people - yes, I do. But when I talk to people at the schools, and they say, "I saw you on the Twit," I don't even know what they are talking about.
feelings age golden
But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.
memories mad people
You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde [Kostiff] riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.
fun home tangier
You realize how much fun we did have, with no money at all. We'd stay in peoples' homes in Tangiers. When you're young, you invite yourself.
thinking
I don't think about myself very much.
amanda knows
I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
boys italian looks
I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [ Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.
weekend looks film
David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.
want disease forget
I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.