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.
There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
I don't belong to anyone.
I really connect with Victoria Beckham's desire to do something that she wants to do. Of the girls we've been talking about, she's one of the few that has this incredible sort of "I want to do it, and I want to do it well. "
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
I think Lucy Ferry, now Birley, is absolutely beautiful. She's a modern girl, but she moves beautifully. Amanda [Harlech] moves beautifully when she's not working. All those English leftover society girls.
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.
I eat a lot of chocolate.
I get more tired by travelling than anything.
Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.
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.
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!
I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here anymore. Not even Tina [Chow], who was to me absolutely the most important girl of the time. Tina was absolutely the chicest thing, the way she kept herself, the way she moved. You're born like that - you cannot acquire it. All those upper-class girls, people like Catherine Tennant, they used to be there in Chelsea, sitting on the couch. Now Chelsea is full of Russians.
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.
The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks.
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.
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.
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.