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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.

Manolo Blahnik

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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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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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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 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 don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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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 always love China, especially the old China.
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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 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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I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
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It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.
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Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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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.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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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 don't like very young women very much. Never did.
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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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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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