Manolo Blahnik Quotes - Page 3

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• Trends don't interest me.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Trends, Interest

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• David Lynch is démodé now, if you look at his films. I looked at them the other weekend.

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  Weekend, Looks, Film

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I watched L'eclisse [1962] with Alain Delon and Monica Vitti. Changed my world. What a glamorous and modern film. This is what a genius is - the thing of a genius. The dresses, the tiny heels, the Cardin look, the boys dressed up as Italian gigolos - it was divine, very modern. [Michelangelo] Antonioni, I loved and I realized: how modern.

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  Italian, Boys, World

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I'm an old bag - I like old things.

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  Old Things, Bags

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Saws, Should

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.

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  Years, Fabulous, Adore

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The most tragic moment of my life was the first show I ever designed for. I had been asked to make shoes for Ossie Clark's show in the early '70s. I was so inexperienced that I didn't put the steel in the heels of the shoes, which is required to support the shoe and the wearer. So the girls came out walking very strangely in these rubber, bendy high-heeled shoes I had made. I thought 'Oh dear god! This is the end of me.' But after the show, even David Hockney and Cecil Beaton said to me 'It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.'

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  Girl, Moving, Shoes

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• 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.

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  Tattoo, Girl, Boys

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I only saw one collection of Victoria Beckham, and I thought it was very much like Pierre Cardin or Marcel Rochas dresses. She's thought about it, and she knows what she wants. And people buy it, so that means she works. She has this incredible will power to do something that she likes to do. And I love that. I respect that.

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  Mean, People, Dresses

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

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  Looks, Mystery, Life Is

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.

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  Football, Stars, Player

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• I always love China, especially the old China.

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  China

  Interview with Anna Coren, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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

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  Wall, Way, Kind

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

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  Reading, Shoes, Wish

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.

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  Shoes, Knows

  "FNO: Manolo Mania" by Ella Alexander, www.vogue.co.uk. September 8, 2010.

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• These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Dainty

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• I thought Victoria Beckham was going to be one of those pop girls, but she's absolutely the complete opposite. She's a working girl. She knows what she wants. And when she doesn't know, she really prepares herself. I love this working type of women. And she's a girl from - I don't even know where she's from.

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  Girl, Opposites, Want

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Moving

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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.

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  I Like You, School, Kids

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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

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  Feelings, Age, Golden

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Men, Class

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Girl, House, Sitting Down

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Fun, Home, Tangier

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!

  Manolo Blahnik

  Amanda, Knows

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.

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  Disease, Want, Forget

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 21, 2013.

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