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
china
I always love China, especially the old China.
inspiration triggers
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
girl men class
I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.
hate today attention
I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
important maintenance
Maintenance is terribly important.
looks mystery life-is
If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
girl house different
It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a house full of . . . I don't know, anybody. Cecil Beaton, Diana Cooper . . . And there I am sitting down with these creatures of the 20th century, and it was normal to us.
shoes knows
I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
trends interest
Trends don't interest me.
beautiful vision too-much
I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!
mean people dresses
I only saw one collection of Victoria Beckham, and I thought it was very much like Pierre Cardin or Marcel Rochas dresses. She's thought about it, and she knows what she wants. And people buy it, so that means she works. She has this incredible will power to do something that she likes to do. And I love that. I respect that.
sexy clothes body
Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.
fashion designer fashion-designer
I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
fashion discipline details
What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.