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

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Manolo Blahnik
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 27
Artist
Businessperson
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
Shoe Designer
Manuel Blahnik Rodríguez
Manuel Blahnik Rodriguez
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Smallest
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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.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
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Trends don't interest me.
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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.
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I thought Victoria Beckham was going to be one of those pop girls, but she's absolutely the complete opposite. She's a working girl. She knows what she wants. And when she doesn't know, she really prepares herself. I love this working type of women. And she's a girl from - I don't even know where she's from.
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Maintenance is terribly important.
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I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all.
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I don't think about myself very much.
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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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