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Manolo Blahnik Biography

Manuel "Manolo" Blahnik Rodríguez CBE (/məˈnoʊloʊ ˈblɑːnɪk/; born 27 November 1942), is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brand.

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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.

Acid, Disgusting, Love, Million, Suit, Wear

You realize how much fun we did have, with no money at all. We'd stay in peoples' homes in Tangiers. When you're young, you invite yourself.

Fun, Home, Homes, Stay, Tangier, Tangiers

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.

England, Loyal, Men, People, Sense

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.

Century, Down, Girl, House, Know, Normal

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

Hat, Jewels, Mean, Same, Shoes, Thing

I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.

Delicate, Long, Movement, Time, Type

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.

Eccentric, Nonsense, Nothing, Shoes, Walk

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.

Happens, Know, Shoes, Time, Two, Years

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

Century, Hepburn, Important, Looks, Miss, Missing

But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.

70Th, Age, Feelings, Golden, Resist

I don't think about myself very much.

Think, Thinking

You put high heels on and you change.

Change, Fashion, Heels, High, High Heels, Love

You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde Kostiff riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.

Hat, Mad, Memories, People, Riding

I always love China, especially the old China.

China, Love, Old

I'm loyal to my thoughts, to my friends. This is what I really like the best. Loyalty. Sounds goody-goody. Maybe that's not the one you wanted.

Friends, Loyalty, Maybe, My Thoughts, Sound

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.

Anonymous, Fenn, Girl, Saws, Sherilyn, Should

I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.

Insecure

I never watched those Spice Girls. I didn't enjoy that at all. So I didn't know Victoria Beckham well. But she came out with this pretty boy, got married, and the boy got more tattoos and more tattoos. And then I met her a few times, and we started work, and something happened. You know, she wanted it. She loves what she's doing.

Beckham, Boys, Girl, Met, Spice, Tattoo

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

Kind, Wall, Way

I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by whatever, it's not there. The kids today-what the hell are they going to be? I like young people - yes, I do. But when I talk to people at the schools, and they say, "I saw you on the Twit," I don't even know what they are talking about.

Culture, I Like You, Kids, School, Talk, Think

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