Fashion’s leading shoemaker, Manolo Blahnik is one of the handful of designers whose name is synonymous with their product.
His success has lasted from setting up as a shoe designer in a Chelsea boutique in the 1970s to the present day, with American Vogue’s Anna Wintour declaring ‘The truth is, I wear no other shoes except his’.
Blahnik has collaborated with many leading fashion designers – from Ossie Clark at the start of his career and John Galliano at Dior at its height – but Blahnik’s greatest achievement is to have made footwear, previously subservient to the overall concept of a look, the most important of all accessories.
His many covers and features in the pages of Vogue reveal that wearing a pair of ‘Manolos’ is to be utterly transformed; in Blahnik’s dreamy, handmade creations, a woman can reinvent her personality. She is a Lolita in his Mary-Janes and a red carpet diva in his satin mules. Or as Madonna once put it, with characteristic bluntness: ‘His shoes are wonderful, and they last longer than sex.’
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- Authors:
- Fox, Chloe
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781849499712
- Illustrations Note:
- Full colour photographs and illustrations throughout
- Number of Pages:
- 160
- Publication Date:
- 05/10/2017
- Publisher:
- Quadrille Publishing Ltd
- Series:
- Vogue on Designers
- Year Published:
- 2017
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Quadrille Publishing Ltd
- SKU:
- 9781849499712