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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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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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I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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Trends don't interest me.
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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.
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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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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 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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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 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'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.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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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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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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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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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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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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Maintenance is terribly important.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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