Quote

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Manolo Blahnik

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Manolo Blahnik
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 27
Artist
Businessperson
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
Shoe Designer
Manuel Blahnik Rodríguez
Manuel Blahnik Rodriguez
Credo
Detail
Smallest
Details
Discipline
Fashion
Best

More quotes by Manolo Blahnik

Image
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
Image
I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I always love China, especially the old China.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I'd been to Saint Petersburg before, but there's been a change in people's minds. Maybe it's a fashionable thing, but people have returned to the churches. I went to a Russian Orthodox and a Catholic church - both of the queues, enormous!
Manolo Blahnik
Image
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
Image
It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
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
Image
I don't like very young women very much. Never did.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I'm loyal to my friends, but I have so few now.I force myself to see people when they're here. Or when I'm here. I don't live in England that much now in the sense that I spend time in factories. I'm such a factory man now. This is really what I enjoy doing.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
Trends don't interest me.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.
Manolo Blahnik
Image
It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?
Manolo Blahnik
Image
I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
Manolo Blahnik