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You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens.

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Manolo Blahnik
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 27
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Manuel Blahnik Rodríguez
Manuel Blahnik Rodriguez
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