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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Manolo Blahnik Quotes

I do think one should have clean feet.

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

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Trends don’t interest me.

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I couldn’t care less about business.

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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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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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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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But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.

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I don’t even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever – they’re all the same!

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

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I’m relating to a period that doesn’t exist anymore.

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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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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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Fun

I forget about the diseases that I have. I don’t want to know.

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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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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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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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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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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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