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I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.

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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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I don't like very young women very much. Never did.
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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'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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These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.
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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 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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I don't think about myself very much.
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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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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 didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.
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I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
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The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
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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 forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
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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've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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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 always love China, especially the old China.
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