Manolo Blahnik Shoes Quotations

You put high heels on and you change.

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

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

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.

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

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.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture 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.'

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.

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