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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

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Manolo Blahnik
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 27
Artist
Businessperson
Dressmaker
Fashion Designer
Shoe Designer
Manuel Blahnik Rodríguez
Manuel Blahnik Rodriguez
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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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Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, Aaaaahhh, irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.
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Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.
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I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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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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When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.
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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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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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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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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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My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
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I don't like very young women very much. Never did.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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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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It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?
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