Manolo Blahnik famous quotes

There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Fashion #Shoes #Charming

The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Shoes #Two #Secret

People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Fashion #High Heels #People

You put high heels on and you change.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Love #Fashion #High Heels

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Missing #Important #Looks

Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Shoes #Way #Metamorphosis

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Shoes #Feet #Special

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Fashion #Design #Half

I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Training #Needs #World

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.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Mean #Jewels #Shoes

I eat a lot of chocolate.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Chocolate

I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Fashion #Designer #Fashion Designer

I don't belong to anyone.
-- Manolo Blahnik

I do think one should have clean feet.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Thinking #Feet #Should

I couldn't care less about business.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Care

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Football #Stars #Player

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Fashion #Discipline #Details

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

#Looks #Mystery #Life Is

Maintenance is terribly important.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Important #Maintenance

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Hate #Attention #Today

It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Girl #Moving #Interesting

I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Insecure

I always love China, especially the old China.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#China

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.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Spain #London

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Inspiration #Triggers

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Blur #80s

The greatest luxury is being free.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Luxury #Being Free

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Beautiful #Running #People

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Beautiful #Wanted

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Fashion #Divorce #Men

It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Dream #Who Cares #Care

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

#Shoes

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.'
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Girl #Moving #Shoes

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.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Shoes #Eccentric #Nonsense

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Shoes #Furniture #Tempted

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Fashion #Paris

I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Beautiful #Vision #Faces

Trends don't interest me.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Trends #Interest

I get more tired by travelling than anything.
-- Manolo Blahnik

#Tired