Manolo Blahnik Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Maintenance is terribly important.

Women are wearing tight and sexy clothes again. It is the body-conscious mentality, and women are revealing every bulge.

These are very dainty and superrefined, but really vile.

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

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

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

I always love China, especially the old China.

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.

I eat a lot of chocolate.

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.

I get more tired by travelling than anything.

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.

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

Trends don't interest me.

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.

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.'

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

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.