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Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.

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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
Shoes
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Women
Way
Quickest
Metamorphosis
Instant

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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.
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I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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Maintenance is terribly important.
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These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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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.
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I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
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I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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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.
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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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Trends don't interest me.
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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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It's the only thing I really enjoy - so fresh, even now that I'm doing the new sampling. I'm dying to go to the factory, which is like nobody's idea of fun. But it's mine.
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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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I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.
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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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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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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I don't like very young women very much. Never did.
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Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
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