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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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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.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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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 do think one should have clean feet.
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I'm totally twisted. Instead of, Oh god, I don't have platforms - they won't like me, I was much more, I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't want to buy it, then don't buy, but that's just what I'm gonna do. It gave me strength. It worked for me.
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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!
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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.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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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.
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I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
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It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?
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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.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
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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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Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.
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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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Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
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