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
sounds
I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
amanda knows
I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
blur 80s
Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
old-things bags
I'm an old bag - I like old thing.
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 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.