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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.
Manolo Blahnik
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Manolo Blahnik
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 27
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Fashion Designer
Shoe Designer
Manuel Blahnik RodrÃguez
Manuel Blahnik Rodriguez
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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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My most treasured clothing item is first suit that I made - acid green. It was disgusting, but I love it. It's been mended a million times, but I still wear 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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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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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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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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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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It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.
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The greatest luxury is being free.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I'd been to Saint Petersburg before, but there's been a change in people's minds. Maybe it's a fashionable thing, but people have returned to the churches. I went to a Russian Orthodox and a Catholic church - both of the queues, enormous!
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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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I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
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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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What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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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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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 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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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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