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I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

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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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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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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 do think one should have clean feet.
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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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It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.
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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 forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
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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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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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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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It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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