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.
huge life
My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
spain london
Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
amanda knows
I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
training taste needs
I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.
china
I always love China, especially the old China.
blur 80s
Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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.
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.