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Shoe Designer Inspirational Quotes (53)

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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
Manolo Blahnik
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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.
Manolo Blahnik
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I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
Manolo Blahnik
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The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.
Giuseppe Zanotti
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That kind of woman who used to be there at the time is not here any longer. In 10 years, people disappear. But I fantasize still about those kinds of women, and that kind of life that doesn't really exist any longer.
Manolo Blahnik
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These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.
Manolo Blahnik
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Maintenance is terribly important.
Manolo Blahnik
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I always love China, especially the old China.
Manolo Blahnik
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Trends don't interest me.
Manolo Blahnik
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My most treasured clothing item is first suit that I made - acid green. It was disgusting, but I love it. It's been mended a million times, but I still wear it.
Manolo Blahnik
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I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.
Manolo Blahnik
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Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could have his own special collection out.
Giuseppe Zanotti
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The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly . . . How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.
Manolo Blahnik
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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
Manolo Blahnik
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I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
Manolo Blahnik
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I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
Manolo Blahnik
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik
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I saw these girls like Sherilyn Fenn and Lara Flynn Boyle that should be working now instead of these anonymous girls. They're all the same.
Manolo Blahnik
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I do think one should have clean feet.
Manolo Blahnik
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I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.
Manolo Blahnik
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I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power!
Giuseppe Zanotti
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik
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Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as P.C. But people have just got C now instead of P.
Manolo Blahnik
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I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.
Manolo Blahnik
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