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The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly . . . How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.
Manolo Blahnik
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Manolo Blahnik
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 27
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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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Maintenance is terribly important.
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I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
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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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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 forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
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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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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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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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It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?
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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
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It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.
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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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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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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 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've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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