Top 100 Manolo's Quotes
#1. The really great thing about my shop is that there's not one dead animal in it ... Manolo's got a load of fabric shoes as well! We use plastic, fabric, rubber- anything but leather. I almost feel like I've been put here to show everyone that it's unnecessary.
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#2. You'd see extraordinary-looking people around in the '70s. It was so exciting! You'd have mad people, like Gerlinde [Kostiff] riding around on her bicycle with a huge hat. Everybody was doing things. I don't have any bad memories of that period.
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#4. I'm going to look the way God intends me to look ... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.
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#5. I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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#7. Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.
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#8. What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.
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#9. I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.
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#10. I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
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#13. About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
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#15. I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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#16. In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke.
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#17. 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!
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#20. ] 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.
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#23. The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
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#24. 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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#27. 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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#28. I'm always kind of contradictory to what people want and what's selling. But maybe I should care now because I have two or three more outlets. I have to be more adaptable color-wise to what people want. It's usually just black and pink, and that's it.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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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#34. I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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#36. I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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#38. If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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#40. People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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#41. I'm totally twisted. Instead of, "Oh god, I don't have platforms - they won't like me," I was much more, "I'm doing what I'm doing, and if you don't want to buy it, then don't buy, but that's just what I'm gonna do." It gave me strength. It worked for me.
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#42. My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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#43. Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.
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#45. I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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#46. 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.
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#47. These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.
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#48. I don't like very young women very much. Never did.
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#49. I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.
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#50. I forget about the diseases that I have. I don't want to know.
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#51. 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.
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#52. I'm relating to a period that doesn't exist anymore.
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#54. I adore Jean-Louis Trintignant - even at 100 years old he's fabulous.
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#55. Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
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#56. In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.
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#59. The only people that come to my mind in the last years are Lee McQueen and John Galliano. Truly, truly ... How do I say? Full of ideas. Full of the smell. They just had this incredible passion for what they did.
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#61. A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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#62. I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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#63. The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks.
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#65. It was so interesting that the girls were moving in such a different way.
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#66. I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!
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#70. You get two weeks after you do a shoe where you can test whether it's good or not - if you're going to like it in 20 years. Then I know that it's going to be my shoe for a long time. That doesn't happen very often, but it happens.
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#71. It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?
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#72. I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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#73. I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style.
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#74. That kind of woman who used to be there at the time is not here any longer. In 10 years, people disappear. But I fantasize still about those kinds of women, and that kind of life that doesn't really exist any longer.
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#76. Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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#78. 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.
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#79. When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.
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#80. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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#81. When I was out of favor and people didn't want that type of boot, flats, or high heels with the elegant, dainty things, it gave me much more energy.
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#83. My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
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#84. It's the only thing I really enjoy - so fresh, even now that I'm doing the new sampling. I'm dying to go to the factory, which is like nobody's idea of fun. But it's mine.
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#85. 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."
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#87. 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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#88. For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The
Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame
and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.
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#89. I'm a great observer of delicate situations and women. I really like that bygone type of movement, and for a long time I had been looking for it.
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#90. 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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#91. When I was a boy I remember the women, how they dressed, how they behaved, what was important to them at the time. Like Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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.
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#94. Passion is passion. It's a sort of madness and possession of what you do or what you think. This is the difference of life: passion and commerce, which most of the people know as "P.C." But people have just got "C" now instead of "P."
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#95. I'm going to do what I do, even more exaggerated. This is my attitude always. I don't betray myself at all.
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#97. Remain dignified, dress well, be good to other people and you'll be fine.
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#98. 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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#99. But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.
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#100. I didn't need it [formal training], because I've got the best taste in the world.
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