Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik
Manuel "Manolo" Blahnik Rodríguez CBE, is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth28 November 1942
CountrySpain
old-things bags
I'm an old bag - I like old thing.
weekend looks film
David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.
passion thinking differences
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."
passion years ideas
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.
periods
I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
nice believe reality
Peter Hinwood found all these old pictures - Polaroids - and when I saw them, I just didn't believe that the person in them was connected with me. I was in a hotel room with one of those front-and-back mirrors, and I thought, Who the hell is that? I used to be thin as a rake. I used to have the nice-shaped pecs. It's sad. No, it's not sad, it's the reality, and I've accepted this now.
i-like-you school kids
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.
I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
buy girls
I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
change season
I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
deal
I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
england learnt royal
The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.
wear women
I like women with style to wear my shoes.
I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.