Lunch with the FT: Manolo Blahnik:
“I always tell the children,” — Blahnik is an honorary professor at the Royal College of Art and the “children” are his students — “‘Don’t do shoes! Do hats!’ And the shoes are so strange, so vulgar. 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.” …
“I detest this period of fantasy we were in where you had something for three seconds and then you threw it away,” he says, opening his eyes wide in horror. “The last few years have been a nightmare! It’s one thing to have a dream, but this was overkill! I was in Los Angeles last year, because they were giving me that award where they can spit on you and stomp on you. What’s it called? A star on the Walk of Style?”
I like how someone who puts feathers and buckles on d’Orsay pumps is going around calling suburban aesthetics attention-grabbing. Maybe it’s a European twist on the term ‘suburban’?
Previously: John Fluevog on Manolo Blahnik
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