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-Are you on? Are we on?
-[man] Yeah.
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Don’t tell me.
All this nonsense? Oh, God. Okay.
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Okay, let’s...
Now there’s gonna be... [exhales]
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[man’s voice] Where is the director?
I mean, that man is a disaster.
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[man 2] Tiny secret smiles.
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Like what?
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I don’t remember.
I don’t have secrets anymore.
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[man 1] This film is like
Gone W/z‘h the l/l//'no’. Two years on the make.
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I mean, honestly, this—
this is mingy documentary.
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Come here and direct.
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I’m sick ofthis story,
but its absolute the truth.
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The truth is that, um,
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| used to make shoes for lizards.
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[projector whirring]
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Barboles is like a big lizard
with a blue thing here.
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It was divine.
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The lizard was much more easy to do
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because they were just like somnolent.
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I catch them. I catch everything.
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And | used to do it
with Cadbury’s chocolate bonbon.
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And it was heaven.
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This is what maybe the only connection
that I had then and now.
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I didn’t think about shoes again
till much later.
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[Manolo] l was very in love with feet.
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I still love feet. Beautiful ones.
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[woman] I can’t remember the last time
I wore anybody else’s shoes.
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| just didn’t even look at them.
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[horn beeps]
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Manolo Blahnik means,
like, the happiest feet in the world.
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[man] He’s a poet. Poet in couture.
He’s a visionary poet.
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He’s up there with Baudelaire.
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[Manolo] I guess it was
a fixation since I was a child.
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[woman] Women dream about wearing
your shoes. Really, it’s a thing.
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I’ve been hearing that,
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and I’ve been hearing
the husbands all complaining
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about new love for me and my shoes.
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No one— No one— No one
have done another shoe better than Manolo.
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He’s the emperor of shoes,
and forever will be.
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He is the greatest shoemaker
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ofthe 20th and 21st century.
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There’s not much you can talk about shoes.
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They’re made for walking.
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[projector whirring]
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My childhood was absolutely
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the most extraordinary one,
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simply because I lived
in a place which is heaven.
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|— For me.
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[birds chirping]
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We had the house, beautiful house.
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Still falling to pieces but beautiful.
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And very kind of cut off
from the world in the ’50s.
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And then I had the wonderful parents,
especially my mother.
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She did have this incredible mind
and wandering mind.
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And she did paint well.
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Everything with her hands
she did it beautifully.
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She was very inventive, like me.
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Well, she invented some kind of shoes
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and she put through with pieces of chiffon
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that she had from before,
and it was incredible effect.
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My father was fluent in every language.
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Spanish even. Boom.
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| wish I can speak other language
like my father did.
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A really incredible father.
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Papa was Austro-Hungarian.
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So imagine.
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7:30, bath.
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Nails. Get ready.
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He would be very unhappy with my hair—
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going now, going up.
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l was not very quiet boy, no.
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Never was. Never will be.
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Yes, l was very demanding.
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And my father had the illusions
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that ifthis boy is gonna
be domesticated or whatever,
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we have to put him
in a serious environment.
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So when l was 14,
they send us to a school in Geneva.
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| always been interested in clothes.
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All my money, my pocket money,
went into magazines.
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Queen.
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l/ogue.
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American l/ogue.
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American Bazaar
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It was so exciting.
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Pictures of Bailey with Jean Shrimpton,
with hands like this.
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And was wonderful.
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And in summertime,
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my mother and father wanted me
to work at the United Nations.
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But I didn’t like it.
l was bored to tears.
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lam now 21 or 22.
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I want to go. I want to do things.
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One moment I wanted to be a decorator.
What a horror.
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But anyway, so I decided to go to Paris.
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[music playing]
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[woman singing in French]
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The first time that I really got
into a conversation with him was in Paris.
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He was so always— you know,
so dressed up and a monsieur,
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whereas I was a girl at the time still.
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But I was, you know— I think there was
mutual fascination right away.
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[Manolo] | end up working with two women
in an antique business.
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And I loved it because I learn a lot.
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| always learn things everywhere I go.
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Paloma used to come down.
“Do you work here? Are you mad?”
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She used to be there all the time.
We’re having tea all the time and cookies.
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Manolo had the strangest of diet.
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Dried bananas, avocados
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and then also this strange liqueur
called advocaat
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which was made of egg yolks,
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and very sugary.
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[no audible dialogue]
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[news reporter] “/n June,
you W/7/ o’ec/o’e by your votes.
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/f you say ‘yes, ’
/ W/7/ change those th/ngs
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Wh/ch are narrow and outdated. ”
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Pres/dent De Gau//e announced
h/s proposed referendum.
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No sooner had he spoken, then a fresh
Wa ve of anarchy tore Par/s apa/t.
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[Picasso] 1968, you know,
revolution, upheaval and demonstration,
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which I took some part in.
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I had this huge purple hat,
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and l was really overdressed
for a demonstration.
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[news reporter]
Tougher feta/Iat/on by not po//ce
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hasn ’t exact/y coo/ed the s/tuat/on.
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[Picasso] Police was running after me.
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I had to take shelter inside the Coupole.
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And those mean policemen
throwing tear gas bomb inside the Coupole.
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Everybody was crying.
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[news reporter] The Warn/ng that France
/s on the bunk ofpara/ys/s.
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But I don’t think Manolo
ever went to any of those.
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On the contrary, he would kind
of lock himself into his shop
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l was even looking at it,
I mean, like a sort of entertainment.
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Can you imagine how awful to say that?
But it’s the truth.
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I didn’t have any— I still don’t.
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I mean, any political beliefs.
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I never liked violence or marches.
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I can’t stand crowds.
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I can’t stand smells of people.
I don’t like it.
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I never like too much people, no.
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[chiming]
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In 71, I came to London because I knew
that I really loved London.
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London was...
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the wonderful.
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This is where you wanted to be.
This was where it was happening.
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It was bubbling. It was lots ofthings
that we wanted to discover.
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It was also such a democratic time,
you know.
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Hairdressers were sitting down
with duchesses for the first time.
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I mean, all the rules were being broken.
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[Manolo] It was something that I never
had— I never sort of felt before.
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This kind of incredible freedom
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ofthe people, the mind and everything.
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But it seems to me that a good time is—
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is much easier had by all now
than ever before.
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[man]
I When / d/e and they /ay me to rest I
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J‘ Gonna go to the p/ace that’s the best I
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I When //ayme down to d/e J‘
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J‘ Go/n’up to the spirit In the s/g/ J‘
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For the first time
in the history of fashion,
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fashion was emerging
from another city that wasn’t Paris.
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And then you had Mary Quant
and you had Biba
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and you had all those marvelous desi—
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And Ossie, of course. Ossie Clark.
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[Wintour]
The brilliance of England’s creativity—
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and it’s why they’re so fearless—
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is that they start with the talent
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rather than thinking about
“Oh, is it gonna make money?”
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Which tends to be a little bit more the
way things happen in the United States.
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All eyes were on London at that time,
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and it must have been such
an exciting and amazing time to be here.
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[Roberts] Where were you?
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l was in school, Michael.
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Yeah, I’m still in school,
but wanting to be part of it.
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[both laughing]
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Dying to be part of it, yeah.
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It was at Feathers
that Manolo discovered me
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and I discovered Manolo.
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Mrs. Burstein was important
because she gave me the green card.
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At the time you needed
to have a green card.
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And she said to me, “You speak French,
Italian, Spanish, everything,
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so get on.”
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[Burstein] Manolo just came in
and wanted a job.
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The personality’s always been there.
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The desire has always been there.
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And how can you resist any of that?
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But you know what?
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I met a wonderful woman there
called Andrea Crittle.
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And we worked very well.
We did send things to the press.
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And she had her little area downstairs
where Manolo was.
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He could have been a wonderful PR as well
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’cause he would talk to everybody.
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I don’t think
I ever saw him upstairs selling.
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I think he was
so busy downstairs chatting.
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[chuckles]
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This is where I learned my trade.
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He kept saying to me— [sighs]
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“Mrs. Sidney, Mrs. Sidney,
I must bring my portfolio.
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I must show you.
I must show you my drawings.”
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“Manolo, I’d love to see your drawings.
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Do bring them in.”
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Do you think I ever saw those drawings?
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I never even knew that he drew shoes.
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One time I went to New York with Manolo
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and I met Diana Vreeland to do
some photographs for Vogue.
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Of course wanted Manolo to meet her too.
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When people talk about you,
what do you hope they say?
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Was that a rude question? [laughs]
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No, | just hope they say that,
“Isn’t she beautiful?
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Isn’t she wonderful?
Isn’t she the most wonderful?
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-|sn’t she wonderful?”
-[laughs]
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Does any woman want anything else
said about her?
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[female reporter]
She d/scovered a// those mode/s.
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Remember TIA/Iggy?
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l/erusch/(a .7
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Pene/ope Tree?
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She genuinely liked young people.
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Genuinely adored young people.
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She was very clever
at being able to figure out
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what people were meant to be, I think.
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l arranged for Mrs. Vreeland
to meet Manolo in the museum.
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He came into her office
down in the basement.
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Very small, red. Hell red, the walls.
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Manolo was a big event,
meeting Mrs. Vreeland.
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Oh, we were, you know, dressing,
nervous, running, screaming,
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screeching, parrots calling,
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howler monkeys going down to the museum.
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And he gets in her office and he’s mute.
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[no audible dialogue]
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He is mute.
I said, “My God, Manolo, what up?
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Speak, speak, speak. What up?”
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Is this really— He’s mute.
He is humble. He is so mute.
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He— He’s petrified.
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He’s like he’s seen a— a vision.
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[Manolo] Museum really could
have been a disaster.
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It was a disaster, in fact,
because I was terrified.
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l was, like, speechless.
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It was a very important figure.
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[Talley] She had to do all the talking.
She met him and she adored him.
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She adored him.
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“How come you couldn’t talk?”
“Andre, it was Mrs. Vreeland.
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l was just absolutely petrified
and mesmerized by her vision,
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what she looked like and everything.”
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She said, “He showed me his portfolio.”
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And I said, “Two shoes.”
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That was, you know,
a key moment for Manolo,
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that she really said, you know,
“Concentrate on the shoes.”
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And it was such a right move.
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[Talley] And from there
becomes Manolo Blahnik.
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[singers vocalizing]
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[vocalizing continues]
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[vocalizing ends]
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I started to meet people—
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Chelita, Ossie.
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All these people
that they were doing things.
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Wonderful Chelita Secunda,
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which she was like assistant
to Ossie Clark,
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asked me to do this collection
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that could have been
the end of my career totally.
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I didn’t know much about shoes anyway.
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So I did kind ofthought,
“Ah, how wonderful.”
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Rubber soles.
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Heels of like— Big heels in rubber.
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And | forgot to put inside steel.
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And it was like...
the girls are falling off.
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People thought it was
like a new way of walking.
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And all these people were there clapping.
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And it was a disaster for me.
Anyway, you couldn’t walk.
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[Picasso] Wearing his first shoes,
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which were extremely uncomfortable,
but extremely beautiful.
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There’s a French saying,
“You have to suffer to be beautiful.”
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And so I thought I should abide
by this absolutely.
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So whatever it took...
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l was ready to go for it.
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So Manolo shoes—
I walked for miles with Manolo shoes,
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and they were excruciating,
but I felt so great.
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[man]
J‘ Or do What you want I
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I Just runn/ng W/70' J‘
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l was thinking about
how wonderful it used to be
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in Cheyne Walk.
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And all those people live there.
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Oh, my God. Everybody was there.
My God, Bianca and Marianne Faithfull.
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ln Portman Square. Everything.
Chelsea was like a village, you see.
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[man] B/anca re/ect/ng bott/e alter bott/e
ofpe/fect/y good Chateau W/ne.
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Madame ’s been ve/y d/fi‘I'cu/t today
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[Talley] You spent the day
talking to Bianca,
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but most ofthe time
she was busy combing her hair
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or just procrastinating
over her clothes or her shoes.
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[Manolo] She was divine though. You can
wait for her because she was like a...
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she had this incredible magnetism.
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[Talley] He would go
to her house in Cheyne Walk.
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And she was part ofthat scene.
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He was part ofthat decorative, glamorous,
English, London scene.
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[Manolo] l was so young.
Twenty-three or 24.
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So long ago.
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[laughs]
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l have a big poppy in my hair.
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I didn’t have one white hair.
This is tremendous.
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This is like one ofthose nights—
We did have wonderful times.
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Oh, she was beautiful.
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Ahh, the Queen Christina was a failure.
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Look at that.
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Oh, Jade.
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As a nanny, l was divine.
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No, lwasn’t. I look like
a sort of Romanian hustler.
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Ah, yeah, a kaftan
that I got in Tang— No, in Fez.
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Ooh, this is two oranges
and a flower and a bump out.
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l was a little bit down here,
or oranges were down.
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You know, I never liked very much.
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After that period,
I never dressed up or things like that.
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Isn’t it funny? Very old-fashioned now.
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But I did have a wonderful time
when l was young.
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I’m gonna do one ofthose kind of shoes
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that they wear in the Court of Cyrus,
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with things going up the leg.
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[man] The great joy
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was sitting in his study
whilst he drew shoes.
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He’d get a piece of paper
and he’d start telling a story.
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Coral here. Emerald.
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I’m gonna do a beautiful shoe. Emerald.
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And this one, something else.
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Ooh, I love that one.
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It’s not gonna be very commercial.
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[Talley] Manolo, his drawings—
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When you see the energy he puts in
the line in a drawing for a shoe,
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it’s masterful.
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The energy from the hand to the drawing
to the splash of color,
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it’s just extraordinary.
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I’ve seen that very rarely in designers.
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Maybe Yves Saint Laurent.
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lt’s gonna be in titanium or maybe—
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No, steel. But aluminum will... break.
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[Roberts]
So everything comes out of your head?
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More or less, yes.
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Yes.
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And it’s a lot of stuff, I presume.
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-Yes. Yes.
-lt’s a lot of stuff.
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But I never have problems
about having a lot of stuff.
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-Block.
-I like— A block? I’ve never had a block.
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Now, that one thing sounds presumptuous
and pompous, but I never had blocks.
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I don’t know what it is.
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This is medallions
or could be floral like that.
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But it’s not floral. It’s jewels.
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Sometimes I’m really happy
that | create this by myself
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because in my time there was nobody
doing designer shoes like this.
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It’s not— It’s not profitable.
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[man] All fashion was
about escapism and fantasy.
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Pure escapism.
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This is why I think he created
this environment
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for people to shop in
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because it took you into another world.
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[man] I met Manolo in the shop.
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l was friends
with Bianca Jagger at the time.
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l was her new friend.
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I lived in her pocket.
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At a certain point,
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I bought a pair of Manolo shoes.
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Zebra skin pumps.
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His men’s shoes, well, they’re just kind
of slightly more feminine versions
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of the women’s shoes.
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[laughing]
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I’ve still got them upstairs at home.
I’ve never worn them.
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[Wintour] When I moved back to London,
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I had just had my first child,
and he was tiny.
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And l was alone in London
and really didn’t know many people.
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And | used to go on Saturday mornings
to the shop, with Charlie,
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who was crawling around,
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just to see Manolo,
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because he was so enchanting
and welcoming and lovely
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and didn’t mind that Charlie knocked over
all the shoe displays.
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And he was always there.
I mean, he was never not in the shop.
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It just sort of made you feel loved.
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[Tree] I remember going into Manolo’s shop
for the first time
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and trying on a pair of shoes.
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A little bit like the ugly sister
trying to get into the glass slipper.
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’Cause Manolo went, “Ohh, ohh!
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Your feet, they’re like peasants’ feet.”
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[laughing]
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[Prieto] I decided I was going
to buy my first pair of Manolo’s in 1980.
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I bought them in the shop.
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l was obviously very
into Manolo Blahnik shoes before then.
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They asked me if I’d like
to come and work here.
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So, of course, I would jump at the chance
of coming to work here.
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And it’s my idea of heaven working here,
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being around all these shoes
that I love so much.
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There was like a little part of me
that said, “Well, perhaps he’s a poseur.”
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You know?
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But then I realized
that everything that he did
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was to do with expressing himself.
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It was really only
from his interest and passion,
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you know, that he dressed like that.
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He didn’t look
like anybody else at the time
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because it was the time of hippies,
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and it was the time of people
just wearing very relaxed clothes.
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And there he was,
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like a creature from
a completely different century.
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Manolo would fit into any century
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from the 15th
up to the beginning ofthe 19th.
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He constantly references
// Gattopardo in Sicily.
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He knows about the Sicilian nobles.
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He knows about the clothes.
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[Tree]
It’s very rare to see a younger person
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dressing as a 17th century
Sicilian gentleman.
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And he’s a vision in his beautiful suits.
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How does he get those tailors
to make those wonderful colors?
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The perfection,
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you know, absolutely
well-tailored clothes,
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hair that’s always pulled back.
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00:27:18,219 --> 00:27:19,550
He was very chic.
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00:27:19,621 --> 00:27:23,580
This sort of elegant,
sort of a bit like Tom Ford.
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That kind of elegance.
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[Talley]
First man on the cover of British l/ogue.
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This is a testament to his style.
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00:27:34,269 --> 00:27:35,998
And that was the moment that Manolo—
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Actually, he was rather sexy.
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00:27:38,707 --> 00:27:40,868
I mean, he was a very sexy young man.
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When we did that shoot,
I wanted to use Manolo as a—
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as a sort of model,
which he wasn’t too keen about.
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[woman] Bailey introduced us.
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And Bailey was just crazy about Manolo.
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He said, “You’re gonna love him.”
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And Manolo came in.
He was very light in his loafers.
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[camera shutter clicks]
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He practically danced into the studio.
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And he had that very high-pitched voice.
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Then we end up on a trip
to the Mediterranean and Corsica.
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And we become friends.
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[Bailey] We land in Corsica, and there was
some demonstrations going off.
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So there was lots
of shooting and banging and...
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So it started off good.
I thought, “This is gonna be a good trip.”
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[Huston] And there were things
that he absolutely hated doing.
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[Bailey]
He was so difficult I can’t tell you.
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00:28:34,996 --> 00:28:37,123
He was— He was appalling.
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00:28:37,198 --> 00:28:38,859
[Huston] Getting buried in the sand.
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00:28:38,933 --> 00:28:42,334
I remember a huge tantrum around that.
430
00:28:42,404 --> 00:28:45,396
“I won’t be buried in the sand
unless you bury yourself in the sand.”
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00:28:45,673 --> 00:28:48,938
So I have to be buried up to my head in
the sand so that Manolo would do it.
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00:28:49,010 --> 00:28:53,071
[Huston] He was squawking like a parrot,
saying, “Let me out! Let me out!”
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[laughing]
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[Manolo]
No, I’m not— I’m not a very easy person.
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What do you mean, fussy?
l’m difficult. Yes.
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When I don’t like something,
I just give hell.
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00:29:02,891 --> 00:29:04,825
[Bailey] And halfway through,
I was thinking, “Mmm,
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maybe I made a mistake.
439
00:29:08,730 --> 00:29:11,096
Maybe I should have
got James Dean or somebody easy.”
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00:29:11,166 --> 00:29:12,690
[laughs]
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He was a nightmare.
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00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,707
[Manolo] The ’70s were like a nonstop fun.
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The ’80s are nonstop work,
and then even more work.
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[crowd cheering]
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00:29:28,983 --> 00:29:30,678
[male news reporter]
Though st/7/ a commoner,
446
00:29:30,752 --> 00:29:32,913
the pretty Eng//sh g/r/
W/7/ be transformed
447
00:29:32,987 --> 00:29:36,184
Into the third /ady of the rea/m,
Pr/ncess of Wa/es.
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00:29:36,257 --> 00:29:39,249
[Prieto] Princess Diana came here
to buy herself a Christmas present.
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She was a flat shoe and low-heeled lady.
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00:29:42,831 --> 00:29:45,356
’Cause she was so tall,
it suited her look.
451
00:29:47,268 --> 00:29:51,796
But she turned up at the Serpentine,
looking absolutely amazing and stunning,
452
00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:56,901
and blew everyone’s breath away
wearing a pair of Manolo heels.
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00:29:56,978 --> 00:30:01,813
That’s when we slowly start
to become like a household name.
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[chattering]
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[applause]
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[man] The ’80s was about excess.
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00:30:13,428 --> 00:30:17,125
And Manolo’s part
ofthe great ’80s in America.
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00:30:17,198 --> 00:30:19,223
[siren blaring]
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00:30:24,205 --> 00:30:27,504
l was responsible
for Manolo making the decision
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to go into business
with people in America.
461
00:30:29,477 --> 00:30:31,069
He didn’t have a clue.
462
00:30:33,281 --> 00:30:36,250
New York was really exciting.
It was incredible.
463
00:30:36,317 --> 00:30:40,253
We started the shop in ’83,
and then it really took off.
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00:30:40,321 --> 00:30:43,950
And that’s how it was.
It was this shop and the New York shop.
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And really, that was the empire then.
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00:30:47,495 --> 00:30:51,329
It was introduction
to another kind of culture,
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another kind of way ofthinking
468
00:30:53,468 --> 00:30:58,428
and a way oftrying to please the buyer.
469
00:31:00,808 --> 00:31:02,969
[man] When you walk down
the street in New York City
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and you see the women sort of, like,
flash their hips a certain way,
471
00:31:06,548 --> 00:31:11,178
there’s the longevity to that sort of
sexiness and style in America.
472
00:31:11,252 --> 00:31:14,085
And | thinkthat Manolo
and what he does in his shoes
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have always been very true
to those themes.
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00:31:16,357 --> 00:31:18,052
And there was a time in the mid-’80s
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00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:20,060
when there wasn’t
a designer on Seventh Avenue
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00:31:20,128 --> 00:31:22,062
that didn’t have
Manolo Blahnik shoes on the runway.
477
00:31:22,130 --> 00:31:26,396
It was a great time in the expansion
of what we did in America.
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00:31:26,467 --> 00:31:31,166
And then suddenly I think that American
l/ogue decided at a certain point,
479
00:31:31,239 --> 00:31:32,501
“Why don’t you go to Manolo.”
480
00:31:32,574 --> 00:31:35,975
When Anna was helping designers,
she would say, “You need shoes,”
481
00:31:36,044 --> 00:31:38,512
and then they would go
to Manolo, of course.
482
00:31:38,580 --> 00:31:42,311
[Prieto] We collaborated with a hell of
a lot of designers in New York.
483
00:31:42,383 --> 00:31:46,342
Geoffrey Beene. We’re doing Bill Blass.
We’re doing Oscar de la Renta.
484
00:31:46,421 --> 00:31:50,084
[Talley] Then there was this long,
long relationship with Calvin Klein.
485
00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:52,251
Calvin is totally American,
486
00:31:52,327 --> 00:31:55,125
and he gave to people what they want.
487
00:31:55,196 --> 00:31:57,892
I did ballerina shoes,
and he was incredible.
488
00:32:02,136 --> 00:32:04,570
[female announcer]
Th/s season, New York’s /saac M/zrah/
489
00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:06,568
o/fers a cockta/Y of sty/e.
490
00:32:06,841 --> 00:32:10,038
I remember the best
of collaborations with Isaac Mizrahi.
491
00:32:10,111 --> 00:32:11,442
The pilgrim buckle.
492
00:32:11,512 --> 00:32:14,072
Yes, that pilgrim mule.
493
00:32:14,148 --> 00:32:18,312
l was gonna kind oftry
to glamour it up as much as possible.
494
00:32:18,386 --> 00:32:20,513
And I gave him that buckle and I said,
495
00:32:20,588 --> 00:32:23,489
“I would like you to make
something with this buckle
496
00:32:23,558 --> 00:32:27,927
to kind of say at once
‘pilgrim’ and “sexy pilgrim.’”
497
00:32:27,996 --> 00:32:29,088
Right?
498
00:32:29,163 --> 00:32:31,597
And that’s what he came up with.
499
00:32:31,866 --> 00:32:36,200
Manolo Blahnik shoes,
as fearlessly sexy as they are,
500
00:32:36,270 --> 00:32:39,137
they’re madly comfortable
to a lot of women,
501
00:32:39,207 --> 00:32:40,538
my mother included.
502
00:32:40,608 --> 00:32:43,475
Even if it’s that high a heel,
it’s still comfortable.
503
00:32:43,544 --> 00:32:45,569
I don’t know how he does it.
504
00:32:50,952 --> 00:32:53,512
I’m sure of all the collaborations
505
00:32:53,588 --> 00:32:55,579
that Manolo’s worked with over the years,
506
00:32:55,657 --> 00:32:58,217
probably John would be the closest to him
507
00:32:58,292 --> 00:33:00,988
in terms of his spirit and his romanticism
508
00:33:01,062 --> 00:33:03,087
and his fantasy
509
00:33:03,164 --> 00:33:07,601
and his sort of...
other worldliness in a way.
510
00:33:08,369 --> 00:33:10,564
-[screams]
-[laughter]
511
00:33:10,638 --> 00:33:12,629
I’ve no idea.
Did you hear what I was saying?
512
00:33:12,907 --> 00:33:14,169
No. ljust walked in.
513
00:33:16,678 --> 00:33:19,078
[Manolo] I say talent has no barriers.
514
00:33:19,147 --> 00:33:20,444
-You look great.
-So do you.
515
00:33:20,515 --> 00:33:22,107
-Are you kidding?
-Magn/'f/'que.
516
00:33:22,183 --> 00:33:24,413
-Magn/'f/'que. Tu par/es/
-But I’m interrupting.
517
00:33:24,485 --> 00:33:26,419
-You carry on.
-No, you just— you just made it.
518
00:33:26,487 --> 00:33:28,921
-Am I saving you?
-You just maybe saved my life.
519
00:33:28,990 --> 00:33:30,514
When...
520
00:33:31,659 --> 00:33:33,650
John, um—
521
00:33:37,965 --> 00:33:39,432
John lost everything.
522
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:42,196
And I think it was Andre
523
00:33:42,270 --> 00:33:47,230
that introduced him to an American banker,
524
00:33:47,308 --> 00:33:52,143
which then led to that amazing show
in the Schlumberger.
525
00:33:52,213 --> 00:33:54,943
We’d gone over to Paris thinking
where can we have the show.
526
00:33:55,016 --> 00:33:57,507
Mona Bismarck lnstitute.
527
00:33:57,585 --> 00:34:00,247
All over the African... No, no, no, no.
528
00:34:00,321 --> 00:34:03,188
And so then I said,
“Well, we can ask Madame Schlumberger.”
529
00:34:03,257 --> 00:34:06,658
We were just sitting on eggshells
waiting for her to say “no,”
530
00:34:06,728 --> 00:34:08,628
and she said, “But of course.
531
00:34:08,696 --> 00:34:11,722
I’ll just have to have
a little face-lift for the show.”
532
00:34:19,006 --> 00:34:21,270
Everything was donated.
Everything was donated.
533
00:34:21,342 --> 00:34:25,108
The jewelers of Paris.
Every supermodel modeled for nothing.
534
00:34:25,179 --> 00:34:26,737
Kate Moss. Naomi.
535
00:34:27,014 --> 00:34:29,346
Nadja Auermann. All ofthem.
536
00:34:29,417 --> 00:34:31,681
And then, of course,
there was Manolo with the shoes.
537
00:34:31,753 --> 00:34:36,417
And this was the moment
of John Galliano’s big, big moment.
538
00:34:36,491 --> 00:34:38,982
It was a pivotal moment in fashion.
539
00:34:39,060 --> 00:34:41,392
[Wintour]
It was just so magical and emotional
540
00:34:41,462 --> 00:34:44,363
and unlike anything anyone had ever seen.
541
00:34:44,432 --> 00:34:47,265
It is one ofthe most
exciting things I’ve seen in my life
542
00:34:47,335 --> 00:34:49,132
in that beautiful 18th century house.
543
00:34:49,203 --> 00:34:52,570
[Wintour] And John really
changed fashion with that show.
544
00:34:53,407 --> 00:34:54,635
[Manolo] It was extraordinary.
545
00:34:54,709 --> 00:34:58,270
A very limited amount of dresses,
but beautiful.
546
00:34:58,346 --> 00:35:01,042
It was the buzz.
It was the buzz. It was the buzz.
547
00:35:01,115 --> 00:35:03,709
And always Manolo Blahnik.
Always Manolo Blahnik.
548
00:35:03,785 --> 00:35:06,117
Always Manolo Blahnik.
549
00:35:06,187 --> 00:35:09,588
You just gasped at the genius of it.
550
00:35:11,025 --> 00:35:14,392
It will always be my favorite
fashion show of all time.
551
00:35:15,429 --> 00:35:17,624
[applause]
552
00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:24,364
-[Manolo] Ohh!
-[Galliano] Agatha.
553
00:35:24,438 --> 00:35:26,406
-Agatha.
-Agatha!
554
00:35:28,476 --> 00:35:30,774
This gave the attitude.
555
00:35:31,045 --> 00:35:32,444
-Agatha.
-That was Agatha.
556
00:35:32,513 --> 00:35:35,414
-And you remember that one?
-She— You could wear that now.
557
00:35:35,483 --> 00:35:37,417
-You can wear one now.
-Some girls do.
558
00:35:37,485 --> 00:35:40,682
These were worn
in the Sao Schlumberger shows as well.
559
00:35:40,755 --> 00:35:42,450
And you maybe didn’t approve.
560
00:35:42,523 --> 00:35:47,426
But with the seamed stockings
and the heels colored in too.
561
00:35:47,495 --> 00:35:48,689
-Darker.
_|_
562
00:35:48,763 --> 00:35:51,129
Probably not correct,
but it gave a certain kind of...
563
00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:53,167
-Different.
slutty look.
564
00:35:53,234 --> 00:35:54,258
Yes.
565
00:35:54,335 --> 00:35:57,270
You know that | tell the truth
all the time.
566
00:35:57,338 --> 00:36:00,068
It is one of my favorite
shoes of all time.
567
00:36:00,141 --> 00:36:02,336
-The one... Oh.
-[laughing]
568
00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:05,504
-Lo|a.
-[gasps] Lola Flores!
569
00:36:05,580 --> 00:36:06,638
No. Lola?
570
00:36:06,714 --> 00:36:07,738
Sl'.
571
00:36:07,815 --> 00:36:11,148
[both singing in Spanish]
572
00:36:18,359 --> 00:36:19,383
-[laughing]
-[singing stops]
573
00:36:19,460 --> 00:36:22,224
Of course I’d heard of Manolo the legend,
574
00:36:22,296 --> 00:36:24,560
-but I was just a runt out of school.
-And then I met you.
575
00:36:24,632 --> 00:36:28,261
I wouldn’t dare to come and meet
such a legend as you. Stop.
576
00:36:28,336 --> 00:36:30,327
-Go on then.
-And then I remember being in this shop,
577
00:36:30,404 --> 00:36:32,167
hearing clack, clack, clack, clack, clack.
578
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,572
And lo and behold, Manolo appeared.
579
00:36:34,642 --> 00:36:37,634
And l was quite—
I mean, I am quite a shy person anyway.
580
00:36:37,712 --> 00:36:39,577
-Which you are.
-And | froze.
581
00:36:39,647 --> 00:36:40,875
Are you kidding? I froze too.
582
00:36:41,148 --> 00:36:43,173
I’d heard so much ring, flash.
583
00:36:43,251 --> 00:36:46,243
Pictures of you in Italian l/ogue
with Anjelica Huston and—
584
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:47,480
{gasps}
-[Roberts] Oh, my God.
585
00:36:47,555 --> 00:36:49,750
-My God, this is a long time ago.
-Gorgeous. Glamour.
586
00:36:49,824 --> 00:36:51,655
This is about glamour,
but it’s a long time ago.
587
00:36:51,726 --> 00:36:53,353
Tres, tres long time ago.
588
00:36:53,427 --> 00:36:56,726
The smell of violets on your breath.
589
00:36:56,797 --> 00:36:59,129
-And Fleurs d’Oranger.
-Fleurs d’Oranger.
590
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,566
But never that would overtake.
That’s the elegance of Manolo.
591
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:03,536
You could imagine
the Flowers of d’Oranger, yes.
592
00:37:03,604 --> 00:37:05,128
-You see how it is?
-Seville.
593
00:37:05,206 --> 00:37:07,697
You look amazing. You always look amazing.
594
00:37:07,775 --> 00:37:09,470
Do | shine?
595
00:37:09,543 --> 00:37:12,774
He may not recognize this,
but he has become a legend.
596
00:37:12,847 --> 00:37:15,315
I mean, he is Manolo Blahnik.
597
00:37:15,383 --> 00:37:18,580
And I’m not sure
that he’s comfortable with that idea.
598
00:37:21,923 --> 00:37:24,153
[man whistling, shouting]
599
00:37:25,526 --> 00:37:27,551
[music continues]
600
00:37:27,628 --> 00:37:28,856
[woman] Manolo!
601
00:37:32,767 --> 00:37:33,791
[woman] Manolo!
602
00:37:35,503 --> 00:37:37,596
[Malkemus] It was sometimes
frightening to Manolo.
603
00:37:37,672 --> 00:37:40,869
We’d go to an event and everybody
would have his shoes.
604
00:37:45,780 --> 00:37:48,248
[Manolo] At the beginning
it was like a surprise.
605
00:37:48,316 --> 00:37:52,582
To see all this hullabaloo for myself,
I mean, I felt strange.
606
00:37:57,658 --> 00:38:01,219
I’m not an actor,
a pop star or whatever it is.
607
00:38:01,295 --> 00:38:04,264
But you have to perform.
You have to sell what you have.
608
00:38:04,332 --> 00:38:07,563
And what I do— what I have is shoes,
so I have to sell it.
609
00:38:11,238 --> 00:38:12,830
Madness of these women.
610
00:38:12,907 --> 00:38:15,774
“When are you going to do it in another
color? In another color.”
611
00:38:15,843 --> 00:38:17,367
I say, “We will. We will.”
612
00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:29,750
In a cross between Cinderella
and a white rabbit,
613
00:38:29,824 --> 00:38:32,258
because Cinderella got
the shoes that fitted
614
00:38:32,326 --> 00:38:36,524
and Manolo’s never stopped running
like the white rabbit.
615
00:38:38,299 --> 00:38:39,766
Yeah, he’s got lots of rabbit.
616
00:38:39,834 --> 00:38:41,961
He even looks like a rabbit when he runs.
617
00:38:43,304 --> 00:38:44,999
[chattering]
618
00:38:54,015 --> 00:38:55,710
Somehow because of the world,
619
00:38:55,783 --> 00:38:57,876
particularly the world
that we live in today,
620
00:38:57,952 --> 00:39:01,649
myths are created around people
the way they have been around Manolo.
621
00:39:01,722 --> 00:39:04,919
And I think he doesn’t really know
how to deal with it.
622
00:39:04,992 --> 00:39:06,857
Never took seriously this thing.
623
00:39:06,927 --> 00:39:12,957
I never had a kind of perception
what fame or whatever or known is.
624
00:39:13,034 --> 00:39:15,525
I can totally understand
if he’s conflicted by fame,
625
00:39:15,603 --> 00:39:18,766
but he has to remember who his
friends are, who his real people are.
626
00:39:25,012 --> 00:39:29,312
[Manolo]
And, yes, its fabulous for business.
627
00:39:29,383 --> 00:39:32,682
I promise in my whole life
| only wear Manolo.
628
00:39:32,753 --> 00:39:34,983
Thank you. God bless you.
629
00:39:35,056 --> 00:39:37,889
My factories will be happy.
630
00:39:42,396 --> 00:39:46,355
[Prieto] Fashion became really
schizophrenic in the ’90s.
631
00:39:46,434 --> 00:39:48,959
One minute it’s one thing,
the next minute it’s something else,
632
00:39:49,036 --> 00:39:50,628
and it’s all over the place.
633
00:39:50,704 --> 00:39:53,468
And Manolo remained a constant through it.
634
00:39:53,541 --> 00:39:58,706
Plus the exposure in SeXand the City,
Manolo became unbelievably famous.
635
00:39:58,779 --> 00:40:00,872
[Carrie] / too/(a wrong turn
/oo/(/ng for the r/ght shoes,
636
00:40:00,948 --> 00:40:05,647
and somewhere south of Ha/ston Street
/ qu/te //tera//y lost my d/rect/on.
637
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:06,811
Excuse me, sir.
638
00:40:06,887 --> 00:40:08,445
I know this sounds ridiculous,
639
00:40:08,522 --> 00:40:11,355
but can you tell me
which way is West Broadway?
640
00:40:11,425 --> 00:40:13,393
-Give me your bag.
-What?
641
00:40:13,461 --> 00:40:14,758
Your bag.
642
00:40:15,696 --> 00:40:17,061
It’s a Baguette.
643
00:40:17,331 --> 00:40:18,798
Let me have it.
644
00:40:18,866 --> 00:40:19,890
/ cou/dn ’t be//e ve /t
645
00:40:19,967 --> 00:40:21,628
F/fieen years In New York,
646
00:40:21,702 --> 00:40:24,364
and just when the c/ty was gett/ng safe,
/ was gett/ng mugged
647
00:40:24,438 --> 00:40:25,803
And your Manolo Blahniks.
648
00:40:26,607 --> 00:40:27,801
What?
649
00:40:29,443 --> 00:40:31,468
-No.
-Give me your fucking Blahniks.
650
00:40:31,545 --> 00:40:35,777
These guys weren ’t/ust alter money
anymore. They were alter fash/on.
651
00:40:35,850 --> 00:40:38,011
Please, sir, they’re my favorite pair.
652
00:40:38,085 --> 00:40:42,647
I got them half price at a—
at a sample sale.
653
00:40:42,723 --> 00:40:43,883
Thanks.
654
00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:46,057
Ohh! Ohh!
655
00:40:46,127 --> 00:40:48,357
Somebody— Somebody stop him!
656
00:40:48,429 --> 00:40:50,989
He took my strappy sandals!
657
00:40:51,232 --> 00:40:53,063
Ohh! Please, somebody— Ow!
658
00:40:53,134 --> 00:40:54,123
Ohh!
659
00:40:54,401 --> 00:40:56,801
Everybody’s seen SeX/n the City.
660
00:40:56,871 --> 00:41:00,068
Some people have seen Mar/e Anto/nette.
661
00:41:00,141 --> 00:41:02,041
[woman] When we were working
on Mar/e Anto/nette,
662
00:41:02,109 --> 00:41:05,840
l was talking a lot with the great Milena.
Canonero did the costumes.
663
00:41:05,913 --> 00:41:08,711
And I thought of asking Manolo
’cause I thought,
664
00:41:08,782 --> 00:41:11,046
“Who would Marie Antoinette
ask to do her shoes?”
665
00:41:11,118 --> 00:41:13,712
And she would have asked Manolo.
666
00:41:15,856 --> 00:41:18,848
| just knew that he has a playful spirit.
667
00:41:27,668 --> 00:41:29,932
[Prieto] He looked
at the shoes of Marie Antoinette
668
00:41:30,004 --> 00:41:33,804
and then tried
to give them a modern slant.
669
00:41:34,975 --> 00:41:36,533
[Coppola] We didn’t want it to feel dusty,
670
00:41:36,677 --> 00:41:39,475
and we didn’t want it to feel
like he pulled things out ofthe archives
671
00:41:39,547 --> 00:41:41,014
and they were all faded.
672
00:41:41,081 --> 00:41:44,175
Queuing up in Le Champs-Elysees
to see the movie, and I called Manolo.
673
00:41:44,451 --> 00:41:48,581
I said, “Manolo,
I’m going in to see Mar/e Anto/nette. ”
674
00:41:48,656 --> 00:41:51,625
And he said,
“You must tell me what it’s like.”
675
00:41:51,692 --> 00:41:54,752
And that first scene,
when you see Marie Antoinette,
676
00:41:54,828 --> 00:41:56,989
the first thing you see
are Manolo’s shoes.
677
00:41:58,666 --> 00:42:00,657
[Coppola] She’s losing herself in shopping
678
00:42:00,734 --> 00:42:03,532
to avoid her sad marriage
and being misunderstood.
679
00:42:03,604 --> 00:42:08,439
Like a trophy wife in Beverly Hills
shopping for Manolos.
680
00:42:10,844 --> 00:42:13,608
He did about 23 pairs for the movie.
681
00:42:13,681 --> 00:42:16,172
And he kept saying,
“You know, it’s exhausting.
682
00:42:16,450 --> 00:42:17,781
You can’t know—
683
00:42:17,851 --> 00:42:22,049
You can’t imagine how difficult it is
to design for the movies.”
684
00:42:31,065 --> 00:42:33,863
His shoes that he made
for Mar/e Anto/nette, for example,
685
00:42:33,934 --> 00:42:37,961
were— were amazing and very sexy.
686
00:42:38,038 --> 00:42:41,565
Those ones with the big bows.
Very, very beautiful.
687
00:42:41,642 --> 00:42:44,008
[Coppola] We had so much fun
when the boxes all arrived.
688
00:42:44,078 --> 00:42:48,071
And automatically, a girl’s blood pressure
goes up when they see beautiful shoes.
689
00:42:48,148 --> 00:42:50,514
So the energy was in the room
when we were filming that.
690
00:42:50,584 --> 00:42:52,984
On a macaroon high with shoes.
691
00:42:53,053 --> 00:42:57,183
But I have to track down
where those shoes are.
692
00:42:58,559 --> 00:43:00,857
[woman] And the Oscar goes to...
693
00:43:00,928 --> 00:43:04,830
-M/7ena Canonero for Marie Antoinette.
-[cheers, applause]
694
00:43:07,268 --> 00:43:11,932
He’s become a myth,
but he still needs to live a life.
695
00:43:15,843 --> 00:43:19,779
He just wants to run back
to his house and shut himself in.
696
00:43:21,882 --> 00:43:24,783
[woman] His father liked a lot
the English culture.
697
00:43:24,852 --> 00:43:29,516
That’s why I think Manolo
has that connection,
698
00:43:29,590 --> 00:43:31,990
that special connection with England.
699
00:43:33,193 --> 00:43:36,128
[Manolo] My love of England
began with Enid Blyton.
700
00:43:36,196 --> 00:43:39,791
Eventually end up
my mother reading L/tt/e Dorr/t,
701
00:43:39,867 --> 00:43:41,858
which I was Little Dorrit.
702
00:43:53,981 --> 00:43:55,949
Strikes me as a champagne kind of guy.
703
00:43:56,016 --> 00:43:57,711
We have fizz, not true champagne.
704
00:43:57,785 --> 00:43:59,252
[woman] Okay.
705
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,185
Yeah, on the signing table.
706
00:44:02,790 --> 00:44:06,749
And so Bath has had a long heritage
as a very fashionable city,
707
00:44:06,827 --> 00:44:10,627
and it’s amazing that you are here
and would like to call it home.
708
00:44:10,698 --> 00:44:13,724
-What first attracted you to Bath?
-This is my home, yes.
709
00:44:13,801 --> 00:44:18,033
One ofthose things in life happen to me.
Everything is accidental.
710
00:44:18,105 --> 00:44:20,767
I got a house in 1981, so that’s it.
711
00:44:22,209 --> 00:44:25,975
[Tree] He went to live in one ofthose
Crescent terraced houses.
712
00:44:27,314 --> 00:44:32,581
Beautiful but very sort of solitary
and very lonely, I would have thought.
713
00:44:34,355 --> 00:44:36,721
But he did that to really think
714
00:44:36,790 --> 00:44:41,056
and to get into his imagination
and to start creating.
715
00:44:44,898 --> 00:44:46,832
You had to show so much of yourself
716
00:44:46,900 --> 00:44:50,859
that you were not sure
that your true self was still inside.
717
00:44:54,074 --> 00:44:57,134
For Manolo, who seemed to be so outgoing,
718
00:44:57,211 --> 00:45:01,978
suddenly you felt
he had reached the limit.
719
00:45:06,820 --> 00:45:09,687
[Everett] We went last year to his house.
720
00:45:09,757 --> 00:45:12,123
It had a Miss Havisham quality to it
721
00:45:12,192 --> 00:45:15,855
because he doesn’t
really live in that house.
722
00:45:15,929 --> 00:45:18,295
It was kind of a passing through
type of thing.
723
00:45:21,668 --> 00:45:24,159
He lives very much with work.
724
00:45:29,877 --> 00:45:33,244
[Manolo] My window.
And look outside. Everything is beautiful.
725
00:45:33,313 --> 00:45:34,871
Sometimes on Sundays,
726
00:45:34,948 --> 00:45:38,281
I walk up to the Crescent
and back again and back and everything.
727
00:45:38,352 --> 00:45:39,376
I love that.
728
00:45:39,653 --> 00:45:41,814
[woman]
Your book is absolutely incredible.
729
00:45:41,889 --> 00:45:44,050
-Do you really like it? I’m so pleased.
-Absolutely.
730
00:45:44,124 --> 00:45:47,252
And I’m really happy because
it took me two bloody years to finish.
731
00:45:47,327 --> 00:45:50,990
And everybody, “No, no permission.”
Copyright here. Copyright there.
732
00:45:51,064 --> 00:45:52,895
-A|ways difficult.
-It gave me goose bumps.
733
00:45:52,966 --> 00:45:56,197
And to get the people in place,
it’s not easy, let me tell you.
734
00:45:56,270 --> 00:45:59,831
But I’m happy, yes, because the pictures
of Mr. Roberts are divine.
735
00:45:59,907 --> 00:46:02,398
And the pictures of Mr. Pan,
the pictures of Mr. Av—
736
00:46:02,676 --> 00:46:04,701
The pictures of everybody,
they’re fabulous.
737
00:46:04,778 --> 00:46:06,405
-Bailey even.
-Oh?
738
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,443
-Yeah, he’s a bit difficult.
-Difficult? Ooh!
739
00:46:08,715 --> 00:46:10,182
-Who?
-[man] Dave Bailey.
740
00:46:10,250 --> 00:46:12,684
Davey. I adore him more
than anybody in the world.
741
00:46:12,753 --> 00:46:14,812
But he’s a difficult person.
742
00:46:14,888 --> 00:46:20,019
[woman] Do you have a favorite chapter
or particular one image from the book?
743
00:46:20,093 --> 00:46:21,458
I adore Cecil Beaton,
744
00:46:21,728 --> 00:46:26,791
because I grew up with those images
in my visage, my face.
745
00:46:34,007 --> 00:46:37,738
Cecil was a real person
of the 20th century.
746
00:46:39,246 --> 00:46:41,214
I’ve been spoiled since a child,
747
00:46:41,281 --> 00:46:45,012
seeing his images in magazines,
what he observe on people.
748
00:46:45,085 --> 00:46:49,112
It was perfection,
and he did capture that perfection.
749
00:46:51,725 --> 00:46:56,059
[Prieto] British l/ogue asked Manolo
to choose his favorite photograph.
750
00:46:56,129 --> 00:47:00,998
He chose a still Cecil Beaton did
with Jean Shrimpton in ’64.
751
00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:04,902
This image impressed
on the young Manolo this idea in fashion
752
00:47:04,972 --> 00:47:09,409
that by fusing disparate elements,
you can create something fresh.
753
00:47:13,180 --> 00:47:18,140
I did have the privilege to ask Mr. Beaton
754
00:47:18,218 --> 00:47:21,483
to do my campaign of drawings,
because I’m sick of my drawings now.
755
00:47:21,755 --> 00:47:24,053
By then I was exhausted of drawings.
756
00:47:24,124 --> 00:47:27,093
[Prieto] He did the advertising
for Manolo for Vogue
757
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,357
when he’d had a stroke
and couldn’t use his right hand.
758
00:47:31,965 --> 00:47:36,334
And more poignant and heartbreaking
because it was near the end.
759
00:47:36,403 --> 00:47:37,370
And there it is.
760
00:47:37,437 --> 00:47:41,168
And obviously, Manolo was hugely honored.
761
00:47:44,444 --> 00:47:48,881
[man] VTR 2621, “Beaton By Bailey.”
Part 1, take 1.
762
00:47:48,949 --> 00:47:51,110
[Bailey] What do you say to people
when you photograph them?
763
00:47:51,184 --> 00:47:54,551
-[camera shutter clicks]
-| coo like a bloody dove.
764
00:47:54,821 --> 00:47:56,880
I say, “Oh, that’s absolutely great.
765
00:47:56,957 --> 00:47:58,390
Oh, that’s it.
766
00:47:58,458 --> 00:48:01,086
Oh, that’s marvelous.
Now we’re really getting somewhere.
767
00:48:01,161 --> 00:48:02,958
Now were cooking with gas.”
768
00:48:03,030 --> 00:48:04,395
Look at me, Cecil.
769
00:48:04,464 --> 00:48:06,432
-That’s absolutely marvelous.
-[shutter clicks]
770
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:08,092
Prec/oso.
771
00:48:08,168 --> 00:48:09,157
-Oh, good.
-Exce|lent.
772
00:48:09,236 --> 00:48:10,464
-Look at me.
-Mmm, that’s too coy.
773
00:48:10,537 --> 00:48:13,097
-Good.
-I really can’t go that far.
774
00:48:13,173 --> 00:48:16,108
-Good. Can you coo some more?
-Yes. All right?
775
00:48:16,276 --> 00:48:19,575
In that film where I’m interviewing,
I said, “Are you vain?”
776
00:48:19,846 --> 00:48:21,973
Am I vain?
777
00:48:22,049 --> 00:48:23,539
Oh, no.
778
00:48:23,817 --> 00:48:26,843
I mean, really, the modest violet,
779
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:29,388
except I wouldn’t like
to call myself a violet.
780
00:48:29,456 --> 00:48:33,017
[laughs] “Am I conceited?” “Am I vain?”
781
00:48:33,093 --> 00:48:34,583
Cecil. [laughing]
782
00:48:37,397 --> 00:48:43,267
[Manolo] All that veneer of imperiousness
and kind of gate—
783
00:48:43,337 --> 00:48:48,400
spoiled person he was—
um, touched me somehow.
784
00:48:48,475 --> 00:48:50,466
I liked him so much really.
785
00:48:50,544 --> 00:48:53,206
You know they have a good gardener here,
somebody good.
786
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,475
Don’t you think? Ah.
787
00:48:55,549 --> 00:48:57,346
l have every single article,
788
00:48:57,417 --> 00:49:01,410
every single drawing
that he did for Vogue.
789
00:49:01,488 --> 00:49:02,580
Every single thing.
790
00:49:02,856 --> 00:49:06,257
[singers vocalizing]
791
00:49:09,630 --> 00:49:13,293
The only quality that | just
got in common with Cecil—
792
00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:14,959
this kind of fantasy about...
793
00:49:15,969 --> 00:49:21,271
novelesque type of, um, excitement
in the things that he did.
794
00:49:21,341 --> 00:49:23,639
And l have that. l have— I go—
795
00:49:23,910 --> 00:49:25,878
| go somewhere else.
I don’t even know where.
796
00:49:25,946 --> 00:49:27,277
You tell me to do something,
797
00:49:27,347 --> 00:49:33,047
put me in front of a table and say,
“Do this collection,” I do it.
798
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:34,553
I mean, without any—
799
00:49:34,621 --> 00:49:37,317
It’s because I have this kind ofthing
that I think he did have.
800
00:49:37,391 --> 00:49:39,359
This kind of, uh...
801
00:49:41,194 --> 00:49:44,391
novel type of... quality.
802
00:49:51,138 --> 00:49:55,302
[woman] lfl had
to describe Manolo as an animal,
803
00:49:55,375 --> 00:49:59,106
he’d be a sort of bird-of-paradise,
804
00:49:59,179 --> 00:50:01,306
sort of displaying its feathers.
805
00:50:01,381 --> 00:50:05,317
And he’d probably have,
like, amazing claws
806
00:50:05,385 --> 00:50:07,410
with sort of like jeweled nails.
807
00:50:10,223 --> 00:50:13,454
[woman] That thing that’s really
so important about a Manolo shoe
808
00:50:13,527 --> 00:50:17,088
is you can dance,
that you can move, that you can walk,
809
00:50:17,164 --> 00:50:20,156
you can run, you can turn, you can leap.
810
00:50:20,233 --> 00:50:23,930
| always define beauty as grace.
811
00:50:24,004 --> 00:50:26,632
Manolo shoes always
give you the dance step.
812
00:50:26,707 --> 00:50:28,334
[vocalizing continues]
813
00:50:32,079 --> 00:50:33,478
[vocalizing stops]
814
00:50:33,547 --> 00:50:37,347
[Manolo] I cannot tell you
how much it was a pleasure to do the book.
815
00:50:37,417 --> 00:50:40,079
For instance, in del Prado, Madrid,
816
00:50:40,153 --> 00:50:41,677
I had a wonderful time.
817
00:50:41,955 --> 00:50:47,154
From 9:00 to 11:00,
the whole museum was for ourselves.
818
00:50:51,732 --> 00:50:56,226
This museum. Suddenly l’ve discovered one
day because our new position—
819
00:50:56,303 --> 00:51:01,707
I discovered Velazquez,
and then in front of it, the Goya one.
820
00:51:01,975 --> 00:51:03,237
[woman] It was a surprise for me
821
00:51:03,310 --> 00:51:07,337
to see how he remember things
as they were years ago.
822
00:51:07,414 --> 00:51:10,247
He said to me “No, that was here,
that was there, that was... ”
823
00:51:10,317 --> 00:51:14,048
So I don’t think there are many people
that remember that anymore.
824
00:51:14,121 --> 00:51:16,248
You know? He really knows the Prado.
825
00:51:18,258 --> 00:51:22,627
[Manolo] I cannot compare myself with Goya
because Goya is the king of shoes.
826
00:51:24,131 --> 00:51:28,033
[Mena] It were not onlyjust his shoes,
but the structure of the shoes.
827
00:51:28,101 --> 00:51:29,762
And also the meaning ofthe shoes.
828
00:51:30,036 --> 00:51:32,231
-[Manolo] With a heel, you told me.
-With a heel.
829
00:51:34,541 --> 00:51:38,534
You know, we’re talking about the shoes
of Maria Luisa de Parma.
830
00:51:38,612 --> 00:51:41,046
-Mm-hmm.
-She was mad for shoes.
831
00:51:41,114 --> 00:51:43,207
Each painting is so sensational.
832
00:51:43,283 --> 00:51:46,116
The detail.
You can see the ottoman de so/e.
833
00:51:46,186 --> 00:51:48,450
-Okay.
-A|| embroidery.
834
00:51:48,522 --> 00:51:51,218
-Yeah.
-And they’re very sensuous, by the way.
835
00:51:51,291 --> 00:51:53,486
You wouldn’t think so, but they are.
836
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:56,222
[Picasso] It’s important
for somebody like Manolo
837
00:51:56,296 --> 00:51:59,060
to feed from all the culture around him,
838
00:51:59,132 --> 00:52:00,531
whether it’s in the Prado
839
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,569
or maybe a building
that he sees in the street.
840
00:52:03,637 --> 00:52:06,071
Everything comes into him
841
00:52:06,139 --> 00:52:09,233
and then is reworked without him
even thinking about it.
842
00:52:09,309 --> 00:52:11,573
It’s just how his mind works.
843
00:52:11,645 --> 00:52:13,613
I think he’s a hero. [laughs]
844
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:15,443
In Spain, yes.
845
00:52:15,515 --> 00:52:17,449
You know, the greatest.
846
00:52:17,517 --> 00:52:19,246
-Well...
-Yeah.
847
00:52:19,319 --> 00:52:22,186
I never had his shoes. [laughs]
848
00:52:22,255 --> 00:52:25,486
Because you haven’t been to London
or try it anywhere, you see.
849
00:52:31,364 --> 00:52:35,357
[Calvo] Manolo is one ofthe three great
celebrities produced by Spain
850
00:52:37,528 --> 00:52:39,639
in the 20th century.
851
00:52:39,639 --> 00:52:42,164
Picasso, Almodévar— Pedro Almodévar—
852
00:52:42,242 --> 00:52:44,107
and Manolo Blahnik.
853
00:52:44,177 --> 00:52:46,577
-[applause]
-[woman on microphone] Manolo Blahnik.
854
00:52:48,148 --> 00:52:49,513
[Mena] The great philosophers say,
855
00:52:49,583 --> 00:52:52,313
“If you want to be happy one day,
have good food.
856
00:52:52,385 --> 00:52:55,252
If you want to be happy for a month,
fall in love.
857
00:52:55,322 --> 00:52:58,314
If you want to be happy
for the rest of your life,
858
00:52:58,391 --> 00:53:00,291
look after your garden.”
859
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:01,827
-Is it true?
-Yeah, absolutely.
860
00:53:08,602 --> 00:53:13,437
[Manolo] The first things
I touched in life were flowers.
861
00:53:13,506 --> 00:53:15,804
I try very much
862
00:53:15,876 --> 00:53:20,472
to fulfill my desires of being a gardener
863
00:53:20,547 --> 00:53:22,412
because I really achieved it quite well.
864
00:53:22,482 --> 00:53:23,642
[sighs]
865
00:53:23,717 --> 00:53:27,676
l was born in a banana plantation
and still love that kind of monotony.
866
00:53:27,754 --> 00:53:29,449
Bananas, bananas, bananas.
867
00:53:29,522 --> 00:53:31,387
Sugar cane, sugar cane, sugarcane.
868
00:53:31,458 --> 00:53:33,517
And calla lilies,
calla lilies, calla lilies.
869
00:53:33,593 --> 00:53:34,719
And wisteria.
870
00:53:36,196 --> 00:53:39,529
Oh, wisteria.
Oh, I love the name, first of all.
871
00:53:39,599 --> 00:53:42,625
Wisteria. It’s so Olympic.
872
00:53:42,702 --> 00:53:45,466
It’s so Hellenistic in a way,
but it isn’t.
873
00:53:45,538 --> 00:53:47,631
I love the smell.
874
00:53:47,707 --> 00:53:50,835
Can have one and put it here,
and it’ll be too much.
875
00:53:50,911 --> 00:53:53,675
No, I don’t want to do that.
I don’t dare to cut it.
876
00:53:53,747 --> 00:53:55,738
[Fernandez-Santos]
He’s all the time in the garden.
877
00:53:55,815 --> 00:54:00,377
And all the plants,
he like taking care ofthem.
878
00:54:02,155 --> 00:54:05,147
You think that it’s not controlled,
but it’s controlled.
879
00:54:05,225 --> 00:54:06,419
He likes that.
880
00:54:06,493 --> 00:54:08,893
Like the boots with— with the—
881
00:54:09,162 --> 00:54:12,256
with the little laces, yeah, going up.
882
00:54:14,334 --> 00:54:15,733
That is the special thing
883
00:54:15,802 --> 00:54:19,829
about being raised in a place
like the Canary Islands.
884
00:54:19,906 --> 00:54:24,343
That you have to be very close to nature,
885
00:54:24,411 --> 00:54:28,313
and you have to understand nature,
and you love nature.
886
00:54:37,257 --> 00:54:40,226
[up-tempo jazz playing]
887
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,831
[Manolo] l was born a few kilometers
from the coast of Africa.
888
00:54:50,904 --> 00:54:52,303
Like I’m an African too,
889
00:54:52,372 --> 00:54:55,637
because it’s nothing exotic
or strange for me.
890
00:54:55,709 --> 00:54:57,836
But it’s beautiful. That’s all | see.
891
00:54:57,911 --> 00:55:00,277
[music continues]
892
00:55:00,347 --> 00:55:03,839
He’s very attracted to that Africa
ofthe ’30s and the ’40s.
893
00:55:03,917 --> 00:55:07,580
That was a very—
also a very romantic kind of Africa.
894
00:55:07,654 --> 00:55:09,986
No, it’s like an idea of Africa.
895
00:55:13,293 --> 00:55:16,421
Well, my Africa’s not the Africa
of everybody, let me tell you.
896
00:55:27,941 --> 00:55:31,900
He’s always interpreted
the most extraordinary leopard motifs,
897
00:55:31,978 --> 00:55:35,436
sandals, raw materials from Africa.
898
00:55:35,515 --> 00:55:39,281
Dark barks and beautiful skin
stenciled as giraffe,
899
00:55:39,352 --> 00:55:42,378
stenciled as wildebeest,
ifthere could be such a thing.
900
00:55:43,890 --> 00:55:47,621
He recreates Africa in his hands.
901
00:55:47,694 --> 00:55:50,254
So that’s why he makes it so...
902
00:55:50,330 --> 00:55:53,561
It’s a new Africa,
a different Africa, his Africa.
903
00:55:56,436 --> 00:56:00,304
[lman] He takes pieces ofthings,
of where inspirations comes from,
904
00:56:00,373 --> 00:56:01,670
and elevates it
905
00:56:01,741 --> 00:56:04,938
so that a modern woman can
actually incorporate it in her life.
906
00:56:05,011 --> 00:56:06,876
‘Cause a lot ofthe times what I find is—
907
00:56:06,946 --> 00:56:10,507
Like when people do
an homage to an African piece,
908
00:56:10,583 --> 00:56:13,313
it becomes like something
you bought from a bazaar.
909
00:56:13,386 --> 00:56:16,583
[music continues]
910
00:56:16,656 --> 00:56:18,521
The Messiah collection
that he did for Dior,
911
00:56:18,591 --> 00:56:22,925
you can still wear— you still see
the influences everywhere, till today.
912
00:56:28,635 --> 00:56:30,296
| get Africa from this shoe.
913
00:56:30,370 --> 00:56:32,804
I can get Salvador. I can get Africa.
914
00:56:32,872 --> 00:56:34,464
| get Africa from the shoe,
915
00:56:34,541 --> 00:56:37,772
but I consider Salvador
to be part of Africa.
916
00:56:37,844 --> 00:56:41,541
Yeah. So I get this shoe a 110 percent.
917
00:57:11,344 --> 00:57:15,337
[McDowell] But his culture
was influenced enormously by Africa.
918
00:57:15,415 --> 00:57:17,747
He just found it exciting and exotic,
919
00:57:17,817 --> 00:57:20,945
which it clearly was,
when he was a little boy.
920
00:57:27,594 --> 00:57:29,619
[lman] There is no “Manolo Blahnik.”
It’s “Manolo.”
921
00:57:29,696 --> 00:57:30,720
Every woman knows it.
922
00:57:30,797 --> 00:57:34,358
It has become part
of every woman’s language.
923
00:57:35,902 --> 00:57:37,392
And young girls— young—
924
00:57:37,470 --> 00:57:39,700
My daughter knows what a Manolo is.
925
00:57:47,547 --> 00:57:49,879
[woman] What do you hope
people will take from the book?
926
00:57:49,949 --> 00:57:54,079
l was thinking at the beginning,
maybe people don’t even know these people,
927
00:57:54,154 --> 00:57:58,921
and I thought it’s a good idea
to have now the book so they can see.
928
00:57:58,992 --> 00:58:05,090
Every one of those people really evoke a
period of my youth, my childhood later on,
929
00:58:05,165 --> 00:58:07,793
and they’re always inspiring me, even now.
930
00:58:10,937 --> 00:58:14,134
I like free spirits.
This is what I really love.
931
00:58:16,442 --> 00:58:19,934
These women who just did something for me.
932
00:58:20,013 --> 00:58:23,847
I mean,
they’d create that excitement for me.
933
00:58:25,084 --> 00:58:27,143
I never, ever, ever replace them.
934
00:58:27,420 --> 00:58:32,448
I never could just get out of my mind,
and this is sad.
935
00:58:39,566 --> 00:58:43,764
Anna Piaggi’s Italy, the whole of Europe.
936
00:58:43,836 --> 00:58:47,431
Anna—
I saw her and we click and said hello.
937
00:58:47,507 --> 00:58:49,475
Then we started to talk. We talk.
938
00:58:49,542 --> 00:58:51,976
We’ve been very good friends for 45 years.
939
00:58:52,979 --> 00:58:54,071
[chuckles]
940
00:58:54,881 --> 00:58:57,907
We did a wonderful ritual. I love rituals.
941
00:58:57,984 --> 00:59:00,817
Every Friday evening
at the terrazza in the hotel,
942
00:59:00,887 --> 00:59:03,219
we had dinner
and we’d never talk about fashion.
943
00:59:04,791 --> 00:59:08,591
She mixed Chanel
with the most trashy things in California.
944
00:59:09,562 --> 00:59:14,226
She was never appreciated in Italy
as much as she should have been.
945
00:59:27,180 --> 00:59:30,911
lsabella used to be on the telephone,
midnight, blah, blah, blah,
946
00:59:30,984 --> 00:59:32,975
talking nonsense.
947
00:59:33,052 --> 00:59:34,781
Like | always do. But, um—
948
00:59:34,854 --> 00:59:37,015
But lsabella was special
because she was so inspiring.
949
00:59:38,191 --> 00:59:41,490
She would send me The Book of Cur/os/t/es
950
00:59:41,561 --> 00:59:45,258
with the say, “I hope you will enjoy this.
951
00:59:45,531 --> 00:59:48,830
Darling Manolo,
you know that I love you forever.”
952
00:59:48,901 --> 00:59:51,927
And I thought, “Gosh, how frightening.”
953
00:59:52,005 --> 00:59:56,567
She knew what I would love to do,
and she was one of my favorite, favorite.
954
00:59:56,643 --> 00:59:58,076
I still miss her tremendously.
955
00:59:58,144 --> 01:00:01,204
Up to the last minute
I was doing shoes for her.
956
01:00:12,792 --> 01:00:16,853
Tina Chow was like the instrument
of my great inspiration.
957
01:00:18,531 --> 01:00:21,625
Very few people selected by this God
958
01:00:21,701 --> 01:00:26,729
have been put on this earth to create
what she did create for me.
959
01:00:29,008 --> 01:00:34,640
So strong the friendship
and the bond between one, you know.
960
01:00:34,714 --> 01:00:38,150
And then she was this incredible...
961
01:00:38,217 --> 01:00:40,617
taste and elegance.
962
01:00:41,854 --> 01:00:45,881
Not acquired.
Simply, she was born with it.
963
01:00:45,958 --> 01:00:50,759
And the way she moves—
I love this kind of movement.
964
01:00:50,830 --> 01:00:53,697
It’s like that little girl Rihanna.
965
01:00:53,766 --> 01:00:55,324
She’s beautiful. The move.
966
01:00:55,601 --> 01:00:57,694
And then Tina had that magic also.
967
01:01:07,213 --> 01:01:10,580
All the people who die
is always with me somehow.
968
01:01:19,926 --> 01:01:22,190
ldon’t think he has
ever sought a relationship.
969
01:01:22,261 --> 01:01:25,856
I don’t think he has the time. I don’t
think he would even have the patience.
970
01:01:25,932 --> 01:01:30,028
I don’t thinkthat anyone could be
a partner because he’s so refined.
971
01:01:30,103 --> 01:01:31,866
I mean, there’s so many—
972
01:01:31,938 --> 01:01:35,772
The colognes. The clothes.
The layers. The linens. The colors.
973
01:01:35,842 --> 01:01:37,742
The houses. The pillows.
974
01:01:37,810 --> 01:01:40,301
The furniture. The paintings. The walls.
975
01:01:40,380 --> 01:01:43,281
The drapes. The— Everything.
976
01:01:43,349 --> 01:01:44,782
Live?
977
01:01:44,851 --> 01:01:47,319
With my mother and father
and my sister and the people.
978
01:01:47,387 --> 01:01:49,753
No, no, no. I don’t live with anybody.
979
01:01:49,822 --> 01:01:52,757
Never share anything with anybody.
Never flats and everything.
980
01:01:52,825 --> 01:01:54,224
[clacking]
981
01:02:01,067 --> 01:02:05,003
The idea of Manolo having sex
was very much a subject of conversation
982
01:02:05,071 --> 01:02:07,096
when I almost first knew him.
983
01:02:15,681 --> 01:02:18,707
Manolo, at that time,
used to make a great fuss of me.
984
01:02:18,785 --> 01:02:21,982
He went on about my neck and my skin.
Not anymore.
985
01:02:23,289 --> 01:02:24,984
[Malkemus] He thinks about sex
986
01:02:25,057 --> 01:02:27,890
in the sense of the woman
that he designs for.
987
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:32,363
Sex, when it comes to his design,
is preeminent in everything he does.
988
01:02:33,299 --> 01:02:34,357
[Talley] It’s fetish.
989
01:02:34,434 --> 01:02:38,029
When he does a black shoe
with a silver chain,
990
01:02:38,104 --> 01:02:42,063
it’s certainly a bondage shoe,
but it was a bondage shoe with elegance.
991
01:02:49,782 --> 01:02:54,048
He goes to within an inch of vulgarity
but stops.
992
01:02:55,354 --> 01:03:00,758
His naivety
about sexual activities practiced
993
01:03:00,827 --> 01:03:04,319
are really what fuels his imagination.
994
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:12,303
And definitely not inclinations
for anything like that.
995
01:03:13,406 --> 01:03:16,842
Because I’m not
what I call a “sexual object.”
996
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:23,972
lthinkthe shoes, which I love,
are very masculine.
997
01:03:24,050 --> 01:03:25,881
They’re very aggressive.
998
01:03:25,952 --> 01:03:29,080
They look like giant tattooed cocks,
in a way,
999
01:03:29,155 --> 01:03:31,715
with Concorde heads.
1000
01:03:36,762 --> 01:03:38,389
[Roberts] Are you a solitary person?
1001
01:03:38,464 --> 01:03:43,902
lndeed, still lam,
and I enjoy every second of it!
1002
01:03:43,970 --> 01:03:45,130
How solitary?
1003
01:03:45,204 --> 01:03:47,331
Well, l have to call people all the time.
1004
01:03:47,406 --> 01:03:48,430
[laughs]
1005
01:03:48,508 --> 01:03:54,037
But not in the sense of, like, um,
I cannot tolerate anybody with me at home.
1006
01:03:54,113 --> 01:03:55,444
Ohh.
1007
01:03:55,515 --> 01:03:59,076
I do, when a woman comes to clean
and the people come to clean.
1008
01:03:59,151 --> 01:04:01,847
It is a miracle.
I don’t like people around me.
1009
01:04:01,921 --> 01:04:04,048
Manolo, when | first knew him,
1010
01:04:04,123 --> 01:04:09,891
was already a little bit,
I remember, disease phobic,
1011
01:04:09,962 --> 01:04:13,125
which was something I hadn’t really
come across, although was about to.
1012
01:04:13,199 --> 01:04:16,259
Proximity of the eating people.
Potato chips.
1013
01:04:16,335 --> 01:04:18,428
-It makes me really crazy.
-[Roberts] Vinegar.
1014
01:04:18,504 --> 01:04:21,166
And vinegar. Ooh!
1015
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:25,040
Ohh! Anyone that used
to eat fish and chips with vinegar,
1016
01:04:25,111 --> 01:04:26,373
l’d run away miles.
1017
01:04:26,445 --> 01:04:27,935
l’m allergic, okay?
1018
01:04:37,156 --> 01:04:38,418
[Everett] The older you get,
1019
01:04:38,491 --> 01:04:41,460
relationships with favorite
restaurants and hotels
1020
01:04:41,527 --> 01:04:43,552
become some of the most satisfactory ones
1021
01:04:43,829 --> 01:04:46,389
because they can’t
really answer back too much.
1022
01:04:46,465 --> 01:04:52,199
But you can have a certain type
of proper intimacy in those places.
1023
01:04:54,340 --> 01:04:57,002
And I’m sure the relationship
with Four Seasons in Milan
1024
01:04:57,076 --> 01:04:59,442
is largely enough of a relationship.
1025
01:05:00,980 --> 01:05:02,572
I think it suits him.
1026
01:05:06,586 --> 01:05:08,451
[Manolo] | see them every day,
so I really like.
1027
01:05:08,521 --> 01:05:10,352
Yes, it is a family.
1028
01:05:11,290 --> 01:05:14,157
I adore lgnazia. [speaks ltalian]
1029
01:05:14,226 --> 01:05:17,992
[Gamicchia speaking ltalian]
1030
01:05:31,611 --> 01:05:35,570
The world I imagine
that Manolo would have enjoyed
1031
01:05:35,848 --> 01:05:38,476
is kind of gone.
1032
01:05:38,551 --> 01:05:41,486
Anyone at his age, you know,
1033
01:05:41,554 --> 01:05:44,489
working in one ofthese
very competitive businesses now,
1034
01:05:44,557 --> 01:05:46,923
if you decide to go on doing that job,
1035
01:05:46,993 --> 01:05:50,520
I don’t see how there’s any energy
for anything else really.
1036
01:05:50,596 --> 01:05:54,999
I think it’s sensible of him
to close himself off.
1037
01:05:59,839 --> 01:06:03,036
[speaking Spanish]
1038
01:06:03,109 --> 01:06:04,098
[sighs]
1039
01:06:05,244 --> 01:06:06,871
Good morning, dear.
1040
01:06:15,121 --> 01:06:19,080
It is quite sad to say that, but this is
the only thing I love, totally love.
1041
01:06:19,158 --> 01:06:22,355
Working every day from 8:00 to 10:00.
1042
01:06:22,428 --> 01:06:27,229
| go there and the whole world disappear,
just doing what I really adore to do.
1043
01:06:27,299 --> 01:06:31,292
[Talley] In his head,
in his DNA, in his veins,
1044
01:06:31,370 --> 01:06:34,203
the blood runs
like the great craftsmen of Chelini.
1045
01:06:34,273 --> 01:06:36,264
I can just see him
shaving away those soles.
1046
01:06:36,342 --> 01:06:39,175
[chorus]
I Gloria, Gloria J‘
1047
01:06:40,579 --> 01:06:42,444
J‘ Gloria, Gloria J‘
1048
01:06:44,417 --> 01:06:46,612
J‘ In excelsis Deo J‘
1049
01:06:46,686 --> 01:06:50,349
You know we’re gonna do it perfectly.
I take two hours.
1050
01:06:50,423 --> 01:06:52,550
[Manolo] l have
to really be there all the time.
1051
01:06:52,625 --> 01:06:56,652
I like to do the thing
and then somebody else produce it.
1052
01:06:56,929 --> 01:06:58,988
But I have to do the sample myself.
1053
01:06:59,065 --> 01:07:01,033
J‘ Gloria J‘
1054
01:07:01,100 --> 01:07:03,000
J‘ Gloria J‘
1055
01:07:03,069 --> 01:07:04,536
J‘ Gloria J‘
1056
01:07:04,603 --> 01:07:08,300
J‘ In excelsis J‘
1057
01:07:08,374 --> 01:07:11,241
J‘DeoJ‘
1058
01:07:11,310 --> 01:07:14,939
Three things are so important.
The quality ofthe material.
1059
01:07:15,014 --> 01:07:16,606
J‘ Gloria J‘
1060
01:07:16,682 --> 01:07:18,650
J‘ Gloria J‘
1061
01:07:18,718 --> 01:07:24,657
J‘ In excelsis J‘
1062
01:07:24,724 --> 01:07:27,693
Then the technical part of it.
1063
01:07:29,595 --> 01:07:35,124
J‘DeoJ‘
1064
01:07:36,602 --> 01:07:39,628
J‘ Gloria in excelsis J‘
1065
01:07:39,705 --> 01:07:41,673
J‘ Gloria in excelsis J‘
1066
01:07:41,741 --> 01:07:44,642
Third is how you put it together.
1067
01:07:44,710 --> 01:07:46,541
J‘DeoJ‘
1068
01:07:46,612 --> 01:07:50,343
J‘ Gloria in excelsis J‘
1069
01:07:50,416 --> 01:07:53,283
J‘DeoJ‘
1070
01:07:58,324 --> 01:07:59,655
Stitches.
1071
01:08:04,230 --> 01:08:07,256
All those elements absolutely
make the shoe what it is.
1072
01:08:08,601 --> 01:08:12,298
J‘ Gloria in excelsis Deo J‘
1073
01:08:20,146 --> 01:08:22,114
[speaking Spanish]
1074
01:08:24,383 --> 01:08:27,113
[singing in Spanish]
1075
01:08:30,189 --> 01:08:32,384
[continues singing]
1076
01:08:32,458 --> 01:08:34,085
Enough.
1077
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:35,549
Whoops.
1078
01:08:37,229 --> 01:08:40,494
[speaking Spanish]
1079
01:08:40,566 --> 01:08:43,126
[Roberts] You still design
everything yourself, which is very rare.
1080
01:08:43,202 --> 01:08:44,260
[Manolo] Unfortunately, yes.
1081
01:08:45,137 --> 01:08:46,604
-No, it isn’t.
-Unfortunately.
1082
01:08:46,672 --> 01:08:47,764
Because it’s killing me.
1083
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:50,474
No studio that actually designs for you?
1084
01:08:50,543 --> 01:08:53,103
-No—
-What do you mean studios?
1085
01:08:53,179 --> 01:08:57,548
Like this woman I went today
in this big talking vogue.
1086
01:08:57,616 --> 01:09:00,210
She say, “Oh, my team, my team.”
1087
01:09:00,286 --> 01:09:04,313
l was so cross. I say, “Well, how do you
work with teams? I mean... ”
1088
01:09:04,390 --> 01:09:05,789
And she was not very happy.
1089
01:09:06,058 --> 01:09:08,458
Manolo cannot work with anyone.
Manolo can’t—
1090
01:09:08,527 --> 01:09:10,518
Listen, listen.
I mean, you know, he doesn’t.
1091
01:09:10,596 --> 01:09:13,497
He— He— His mind races.
1092
01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:14,692
No, it’s gonna fall.
1093
01:09:14,767 --> 01:09:17,736
This little whole concept I’m not into.
1094
01:09:17,803 --> 01:09:20,795
You’re not into it?
I’m so sorry, but I am.
1095
01:09:21,073 --> 01:09:22,404
Good.
1096
01:09:22,474 --> 01:09:24,806
If you don’t sell it, good-bye.
1097
01:09:26,612 --> 01:09:30,571
You have to have a stern character
to be able to even work with Manolo.
1098
01:09:30,649 --> 01:09:32,276
To have an assistant would be impossible.
1099
01:09:33,419 --> 01:09:35,512
-Good-bye to me?
-No, good-bye to the shoe.
1100
01:09:35,588 --> 01:09:38,489
-To the shoe.
-Oh. One shoe. It’s okay.
1101
01:09:56,275 --> 01:10:01,235
[Malkemus] Manolo’s decollete, or his
pump, is probably his great signature.
1102
01:10:05,584 --> 01:10:08,576
You take in the whole silhouette
of the foot.
1103
01:10:10,422 --> 01:10:14,756
So the decollete, in the sense of a dress,
is the decollete of a breast.
1104
01:10:14,827 --> 01:10:17,660
A decollete in a shoe is the toe cleavage.
1105
01:10:17,730 --> 01:10:20,426
Give me, like, an interest
of standard decollete.
1106
01:10:20,499 --> 01:10:21,830
The toe cleavage.
1107
01:10:21,901 --> 01:10:24,597
Ooh, I find it so demode.
1108
01:10:24,670 --> 01:10:27,639
[Malkemus] A kitten heel is something that
Manolo has done from the beginning.
1109
01:10:27,706 --> 01:10:31,301
It’s about a 50-millimeter, so it’s
slightly under two and a half inches.
1110
01:10:31,377 --> 01:10:34,471
It often has a sort of curve to it.
1111
01:10:43,522 --> 01:10:47,151
And it’s something that sort of people
recognize more often
1112
01:10:47,226 --> 01:10:48,386
with an Audrey Hepburn.
1113
01:10:48,460 --> 01:10:51,827
You know, “think pink”—
that kind of era of shoes.
1114
01:10:53,499 --> 01:10:55,626
There’s something
that’s sort of kinky about it
1115
01:10:55,701 --> 01:10:57,293
and quite youngish about it.
1116
01:10:57,369 --> 01:11:02,329
[Malkemus] Manolo is most famous,
of all designers, for the mule.
1117
01:11:13,185 --> 01:11:15,346
He loves the sort of
click-clack of a mule,
1118
01:11:15,421 --> 01:11:18,549
so basically when a woman walks down
the street and you hear her coming,
1119
01:11:18,624 --> 01:11:20,956
it’s something that’s very, very sexy.
1120
01:11:31,670 --> 01:11:34,366
How does he keep coming up
with things that are so right
1121
01:11:34,440 --> 01:11:36,271
when I’m trying so hard and I can’t?
1122
01:11:36,342 --> 01:11:38,936
And the fact is you’re trying so hard
and you can’t
1123
01:11:39,211 --> 01:11:40,906
because you’re six steps behind,
1124
01:11:40,980 --> 01:11:43,574
and he will always be
like a little sprite,
1125
01:11:43,649 --> 01:11:46,379
sort of da-da-da, you know,
skipping ahead of you.
1126
01:11:46,452 --> 01:11:50,912
I love the idea ofthe combination
of Manolo and Rihanna.
1127
01:11:50,990 --> 01:11:52,423
I love the idea.
1128
01:11:52,491 --> 01:11:56,359
Yes, it’s good.
It’s going to be perfection.
1129
01:11:56,428 --> 01:11:57,417
[woman] Rihanna!
1130
01:11:57,496 --> 01:11:59,487
[Dudzeele] She have fun.
She have fun. She have fun.
1131
01:11:59,565 --> 01:12:01,795
This is what fashion should be.
1132
01:12:01,867 --> 01:12:05,860
[Manolo] I’m fascinated by the movement
of her, especially the neck.
1133
01:12:05,938 --> 01:12:09,897
She’s beautiful.
She’s like the new Grace Kelly.
1134
01:12:09,975 --> 01:12:15,936
Me, I love me a stupid high shoe
that’s out of control.
1135
01:12:16,015 --> 01:12:20,475
But I also don’t like to see
1136
01:12:20,552 --> 01:12:23,817
a woman not be able to walk in a shoe.
1137
01:12:23,889 --> 01:12:27,416
So I’m very considerate ofthat, you know.
1138
01:12:27,493 --> 01:12:30,587
Everybody can’t wear
a super ridiculous heel.
1139
01:12:31,597 --> 01:12:33,531
[Manolo] Isn’t that fabulous, that one?
1140
01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:37,000
This I really love. It’s called like—
I don’t really know. Like a pampas.
1141
01:12:37,269 --> 01:12:38,998
[man] Your legs are that high?
1142
01:12:39,271 --> 01:12:40,966
Honey, yes. She has long legs.
1143
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:42,871
Baby, yes, she does.
1144
01:12:42,941 --> 01:12:46,604
I love them.
Like, I’m so excited about them.
1145
01:12:46,678 --> 01:12:49,476
Yes, I love a shoe that can make
another girl jealous.
1146
01:12:49,548 --> 01:12:52,517
And this is, like,
one of my favorite shoes.
1147
01:12:52,584 --> 01:12:56,850
So we’re gonna do a variation of that one,
but we’re gonna do much more...
1148
01:12:56,922 --> 01:13:00,358
-Yeah, I think it should look like flesh.
exaggerate like a couture.
1149
01:13:00,426 --> 01:13:03,054
But then these embellishments are,
like, flesh tones.
1150
01:13:03,328 --> 01:13:04,295
Beautiful.
1151
01:13:04,363 --> 01:13:07,958
Yeah, so that it’sjust, like,
naked on your foot but sparkle.
1152
01:13:08,033 --> 01:13:09,967
-Movement of the thing.
-Yeah, like just perfect.
1153
01:13:10,035 --> 01:13:13,027
-We’re doing a couple of heights.
-This...
1154
01:13:13,305 --> 01:13:14,636
-A couple of height heels.
-Compromise.
1155
01:13:14,706 --> 01:13:15,695
-One of five.
-Compromise.
1156
01:13:15,774 --> 01:13:17,002
-| compromise.
-Compromise.
1157
01:13:17,076 --> 01:13:19,442
-Manolo knows the comfortable heel.
-She knows how to walk.
1158
01:13:19,511 --> 01:13:22,480
She knows what’s exactly going on.
And she knows more than I do.
1159
01:13:22,548 --> 01:13:25,346
Because I don’t have a clue
what’s going on.
1160
01:13:25,417 --> 01:13:27,977
I do what I do,
and that’s it. But she knows.
1161
01:13:28,053 --> 01:13:32,353
That is a great, great thing that just
push me to this. It’s a challenge.
1162
01:13:32,424 --> 01:13:34,949
He sort of sees it almost as his duty
1163
01:13:35,027 --> 01:13:38,986
to make women look beautiful
and feel great about their shoes.
1164
01:13:49,641 --> 01:13:53,577
He always describes himself to me,
and I’m sure to others, as a cobbler.
1165
01:13:53,645 --> 01:13:56,637
Just sort ofthe little cobbler
living above his shop
1166
01:13:56,715 --> 01:13:58,706
is his fantasy of himself,
1167
01:13:58,784 --> 01:14:01,810
and I think it’s where
he truly finds his happiness.
1168
01:14:07,359 --> 01:14:09,759
[Manolo] In Moscow,
four years ago, a woman said to me,
1169
01:14:09,828 --> 01:14:12,558
“Are you an artist?”
In French. In perfect French.
1170
01:14:12,631 --> 01:14:14,792
[speaking French]
1171
01:14:22,975 --> 01:14:27,503
[Wintour] It’s almost like a sort of
Dickensian shopkeeper, you know,
1172
01:14:27,579 --> 01:14:31,515
and sort of a lot of bowing
and scraping and “madame.”
1173
01:14:31,583 --> 01:14:35,110
And, you know, it’sjust very—
But it’s very humble and very sweet.
1174
01:14:35,387 --> 01:14:39,653
And you sort of feel honored
to be so taken care of
1175
01:14:39,725 --> 01:14:44,025
and so treasured and so able
to make someone so happy.
1176
01:14:44,096 --> 01:14:46,690
There’s two shoes for her.
They’re great. I love them.
1177
01:14:46,765 --> 01:14:48,756
-These are fabulous.
-The coral one.
1178
01:14:48,834 --> 01:14:51,132
-Is it too small?
-Beautiful. No, it’s perfect.
1179
01:14:51,403 --> 01:14:54,736
l... [mouths words, laughs]
1180
01:14:54,806 --> 01:14:57,707
-You’ve got divine feet.
-Oh, well, ballerina— ballerina feet.
1181
01:14:57,776 --> 01:15:00,711
-Ballerina. Is it tight?
-No, they’re perfect.
1182
01:15:00,779 --> 01:15:03,475
Long before I was a model,
l was a ballerina.
1183
01:15:03,549 --> 01:15:04,948
-This is first.
-First.
1184
01:15:05,017 --> 01:15:06,712
-This is second.
-Second.
1185
01:15:06,785 --> 01:15:08,650
-This is third.
-Yeah.
1186
01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:10,654
Fourth. And fifth.
1187
01:15:10,722 --> 01:15:14,055
[Manolo] God created woman
because they should be like this.
1188
01:15:14,126 --> 01:15:15,923
-You’d be ideal for this sequence.
-Yes.
1189
01:15:15,994 --> 01:15:17,723
You are Moira Shearer.
1190
01:15:21,500 --> 01:15:23,024
[laughs]
1191
01:15:25,003 --> 01:15:27,563
I do that scene.
1192
01:15:30,042 --> 01:15:32,602
I can move. ljust can’t talk.
1193
01:15:32,678 --> 01:15:34,168
Don’t talk.
1194
01:15:34,446 --> 01:15:36,175
Oh, how lovely you look.
1195
01:15:36,448 --> 01:15:38,143
She is the modern woman.
1196
01:15:38,217 --> 01:15:39,650
Let’s go.
1197
01:15:41,753 --> 01:15:44,278
[singers vocalizing]
1198
01:15:46,959 --> 01:15:48,551
[Manolo] Now that I’m getting older,
1199
01:15:48,627 --> 01:15:52,028
I’m back again to the things
that | used to love when l was a child.
1200
01:15:52,097 --> 01:15:53,962
Sicily and The Leopard
1201
01:15:57,035 --> 01:16:02,098
It is the most extraordinary novel
ofthe 20th century and now.
1202
01:16:02,174 --> 01:16:06,702
Each time that you read,
you find something new.
1203
01:16:06,778 --> 01:16:11,545
Another sentence and say,
“Suddenly the sea had stopped.”
1204
01:16:12,884 --> 01:16:14,818
I don’t want the page to finish.
1205
01:16:14,886 --> 01:16:18,982
I don’t thinkthere’s anything in
the world as beautiful as // Gattopardo.
1206
01:16:20,125 --> 01:16:21,820
I went to see the film.
1207
01:16:24,263 --> 01:16:27,255
He’s the only one
who could capture the essence
1208
01:16:27,532 --> 01:16:30,626
ofthe dying aristocracy in Sicily.
1209
01:16:31,737 --> 01:16:36,037
To me it was incredible,
and I still see it every year, twice.
1210
01:16:37,109 --> 01:16:41,011
It’s ltaly through the eyes ofthe genius.
1211
01:16:43,915 --> 01:16:45,678
I never knew ltaly.
1212
01:16:45,751 --> 01:16:48,049
I never knew the entire Sicilian culture.
1213
01:16:48,120 --> 01:16:51,715
The novel speaks about life
1214
01:16:51,790 --> 01:16:54,782
as a set number of years.
1215
01:16:54,860 --> 01:16:56,987
-You have 60 years.
-Centuries.
1216
01:16:57,062 --> 01:17:00,793
First you are young,
you go around, you are in love.
1217
01:17:00,866 --> 01:17:03,266
Then you mature,
you have children, some lovers.
1218
01:17:03,535 --> 01:17:08,905
Then you retire, and you are old,
and you must cope with death.
1219
01:17:08,974 --> 01:17:10,771
This is true about Lampedusa.
1220
01:17:10,842 --> 01:17:13,072
-There is no time. It’s forever.
-Yes.
1221
01:17:13,145 --> 01:17:15,170
You understand? It’s forever.
1222
01:17:15,247 --> 01:17:17,215
They come again and again.
1223
01:17:17,449 --> 01:17:18,746
[bird chirps]
1224
01:17:21,820 --> 01:17:25,586
[Manolo] What I love about Sicily
is the divine light.
1225
01:17:25,657 --> 01:17:31,118
l have an incredible sort of affection
for this Hellenistic culture.
1226
01:17:40,205 --> 01:17:45,700
The first thing I do
is look at the feet of statues.
1227
01:17:46,745 --> 01:17:49,646
I’m not a fetishist, but I love feet.
1228
01:17:49,715 --> 01:17:53,617
I cannot even have any reaction,
sensual or otherwise.
1229
01:17:53,685 --> 01:17:55,676
When I see feet, it’s simply beautiful.
1230
01:17:55,754 --> 01:17:57,278
| find it beautiful.
1231
01:17:59,191 --> 01:18:01,955
There are wonderful erotic resonances
1232
01:18:02,027 --> 01:18:05,986
about shoes and sandals in ancient Greece.
1233
01:18:07,232 --> 01:18:09,257
[Manolo] They have classical education.
1234
01:18:09,334 --> 01:18:11,894
l was born with a classical education.
1235
01:18:11,970 --> 01:18:14,939
We all know that sucking people’s toes
1236
01:18:15,006 --> 01:18:17,873
means something more
than just sucking their toes.
1237
01:18:17,943 --> 01:18:22,710
So, in a way, how you dress the foot
1238
01:18:22,781 --> 01:18:28,879
was as kind of edgy, I think,
in ancient Greece and Rome
1239
01:18:28,954 --> 01:18:30,216
as it is now.
1240
01:18:30,288 --> 01:18:33,746
When you go and see Pauline Borghese
at the Borghese Museum,
1241
01:18:33,825 --> 01:18:37,386
which is one of my favorite feet in the
world, I could kiss that feet for days.
1242
01:18:41,767 --> 01:18:43,860
[Beard] He’s not on his own
1243
01:18:43,935 --> 01:18:46,768
in thinking that feet
are really interesting.
1244
01:18:46,838 --> 01:18:49,363
And one ofthe things
you can’t help but notice
1245
01:18:49,641 --> 01:18:52,075
when you look at ancient sculpture
1246
01:18:52,144 --> 01:18:57,411
is quite how much attention
has gone into the foot.
1247
01:18:57,682 --> 01:19:00,048
But I never thought
about doing shoes ever,
1248
01:19:00,118 --> 01:19:03,178
because, I mean,
the shoes destroy the beauty of the feet.
1249
01:19:03,255 --> 01:19:06,986
But I was very in love with feet, yes.
I still love feet.
1250
01:19:09,394 --> 01:19:13,763
[Beard] So shoes and the classics are
all part ofthe same project.
1251
01:19:13,832 --> 01:19:18,269
And the shoes, the product
of him thinking, of him talking,
1252
01:19:18,336 --> 01:19:23,035
of him working, of him putting together
different bits of world culture
1253
01:19:23,108 --> 01:19:28,171
into this new shape
which turns out amazingly to be a shoe.
1254
01:19:35,854 --> 01:19:37,981
-[Roberts] Manolo Blahnik.
-Oh, again.
1255
01:19:39,357 --> 01:19:41,086
Yes?
1256
01:19:41,159 --> 01:19:43,457
Do you still celebrate your birthday?
1257
01:19:43,728 --> 01:19:45,787
Oh, I try to forget.
1258
01:19:45,864 --> 01:19:48,424
In fact, I don’t do it.
I don’t tell anybody.
1259
01:19:48,700 --> 01:19:49,928
[Roberts] om
1260
01:19:52,437 --> 01:19:54,200
Do you consider yourself old?
1261
01:19:54,272 --> 01:19:57,173
No. You know,
I don’t ever think about that.
1262
01:19:58,043 --> 01:20:00,102
You are young at heart?
1263
01:20:00,178 --> 01:20:04,308
Well, yes, at heart, yes, but not— not...
1264
01:20:06,952 --> 01:20:09,944
I rarely think about being—
1265
01:20:10,021 --> 01:20:13,081
-Remembered?
-No, remember. Whatever.
1266
01:20:13,158 --> 01:20:15,058
I enjoy every day.
1267
01:20:15,126 --> 01:20:17,151
I mean, I enjoy every second or whatever.
1268
01:20:17,229 --> 01:20:19,322
-But the legacy—
-But I don’t want legacy nonsense.
1269
01:20:19,397 --> 01:20:21,888
-No legacy?
-I don’t really care less.
1270
01:20:21,967 --> 01:20:24,731
No, I don’t. I have no perception ofthis.
1271
01:20:24,803 --> 01:20:28,239
Never did like fame and things and this.
1272
01:20:28,306 --> 01:20:30,297
ldon’t give a damn.
1273
01:20:32,744 --> 01:20:34,871
What I do is very sort of...
1274
01:20:36,081 --> 01:20:37,343
passage.
1275
01:20:43,822 --> 01:20:45,847
But the one I really like the best
1276
01:20:45,924 --> 01:20:51,294
is | help this profession
in a sense of like...
1277
01:20:51,363 --> 01:20:52,921
more people doing it.
1278
01:20:52,998 --> 01:20:54,397
I like that.
1279
01:20:54,466 --> 01:20:58,163
Very, very exciting to have created
this kind of interest in shoes.
1280
01:20:58,236 --> 01:21:01,364
This is the only thing
if I want to be remembered
1281
01:21:01,439 --> 01:21:05,967
is possibly he make women lovely
1282
01:21:06,044 --> 01:21:09,207
and men desire the women
and blah, blah, blah.
1283
01:21:09,281 --> 01:21:11,772
To be a great designer, great creator,
1284
01:21:11,850 --> 01:21:16,253
you have to be interested in the world
and in the history and in people.
1285
01:21:16,321 --> 01:21:19,552
And you think ofthe beautiful
and extraordinary women
1286
01:21:19,824 --> 01:21:23,419
that Manolo has
made shoes for over the years.
1287
01:21:23,495 --> 01:21:26,555
[woman] And who wears
or has worn your shoes best?
1288
01:21:26,831 --> 01:21:28,822
[woman 2] There’s a good question.
1289
01:21:28,900 --> 01:21:29,889
You better.
1290
01:21:29,968 --> 01:21:34,098
Um, I don’t know, but I have—
1291
01:21:34,172 --> 01:21:36,572
Years ago, not now,
1292
01:21:36,841 --> 01:21:40,242
I saw somebody in the station here,
1293
01:21:40,312 --> 01:21:43,213
and she was a woman of certain age,
1294
01:21:43,281 --> 01:21:46,808
but she was kind of, um...
1295
01:21:46,885 --> 01:21:49,581
She had this incredible sort of presence.
1296
01:21:49,854 --> 01:21:52,846
A little bun, blonde hair,
1297
01:21:52,924 --> 01:21:56,018
glasses that looked almost
in the old-fashioned things
1298
01:21:56,094 --> 01:21:57,584
like a secretary.
1299
01:21:57,862 --> 01:22:01,025
Um, but she was wearing one of my pumps,
1300
01:22:01,099 --> 01:22:03,294
and it was like a little bit tiny heel,
1301
01:22:03,368 --> 01:22:05,131
and she was so divine.
1302
01:22:05,203 --> 01:22:08,001
I never knew the woman,
but that is the woman I remember.
1303
01:22:08,073 --> 01:22:10,166
This is the people I like to see—
1304
01:22:10,241 --> 01:22:13,267
ordinary people
wearing things so beautiful.
1305
01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:18,248
You can’t create
another original like that.
1306
01:22:18,316 --> 01:22:22,275
I mean, he is exceptional, I think.
1307
01:22:22,354 --> 01:22:24,515
Exceptional.
1308
01:22:24,589 --> 01:22:27,888
And long may he reign being exceptional.
1309
01:22:30,395 --> 01:22:33,592
I wanted to do a shoe for Mary Beard.
Greek.
1310
01:22:33,865 --> 01:22:37,164
I think Manolo is still full of surprises.
1311
01:22:37,235 --> 01:22:39,203
Sometimes he does collections,
1312
01:22:39,270 --> 01:22:42,205
like the one
with all the balls on the heel.
1313
01:22:42,273 --> 01:22:44,935
I mean,
I was completely overwhelmed by that.
1314
01:22:45,010 --> 01:22:46,307
[Manolo] There you go.
1315
01:22:46,411 --> 01:22:48,879
This is like a—
lfeel like a monkey performing.
1316
01:22:50,081 --> 01:22:52,311
It is what I’m doing.
1317
01:22:52,384 --> 01:22:54,648
He’s a breath of imagination.
He is unique.
1318
01:22:54,919 --> 01:22:58,047
And when he’s gone,
sadly there will be none other.
1319
01:22:58,123 --> 01:23:00,387
There will never, ever be another Manolo.
1320
01:23:01,292 --> 01:23:03,226
[laughs] God.
1321
01:23:05,330 --> 01:23:07,662
The thing to do is
not to take yourself serious.
1322
01:23:07,932 --> 01:23:09,229
Otherwise, you’re finished.
1323
01:23:09,300 --> 01:23:12,997
So many ofthe people
actually don’t create that much.
1324
01:23:13,071 --> 01:23:15,232
I mean, they go back to the flea market
1325
01:23:15,306 --> 01:23:18,935
and then they take something and they say,
“Okay, let’s do it again.”
1326
01:23:19,010 --> 01:23:23,140
Whereas with Manolo,
it’s a completely different process.
1327
01:23:23,214 --> 01:23:26,240
Very deep and...
1328
01:23:26,317 --> 01:23:28,649
sensual process, actually, too.
1329
01:23:30,088 --> 01:23:31,453
I love decorating.
1330
01:23:31,523 --> 01:23:33,457
I love the lines ofthe shoe,
1331
01:23:33,525 --> 01:23:37,154
but my favorite thing
is thinking about color and decoration.
1332
01:23:38,296 --> 01:23:41,356
I would trust him to sort of, you know,
1333
01:23:41,433 --> 01:23:46,063
remake my entire world
because ofjust the sense of color.
1334
01:23:46,137 --> 01:23:50,506
The old techniques of working
are disappearing,
1335
01:23:50,575 --> 01:23:53,942
and the new people don’t want
to learn new things.
1336
01:23:54,012 --> 01:23:55,946
He’s original. He’s a one-off.
1337
01:23:56,014 --> 01:23:58,505
And I love the way
he likes to put on his white jacket
1338
01:23:58,583 --> 01:24:02,713
or his workman’s jacket and...
start carving shoes.
1339
01:24:02,987 --> 01:24:07,390
I bet there’s not many designers
that do that themselves.
1340
01:24:07,459 --> 01:24:08,483
No, he’s great.
1341
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:10,425
| used to do everything myself.
1342
01:24:10,495 --> 01:24:12,122
The heel, the last, everything.
1343
01:24:12,197 --> 01:24:14,495
But now it’s like, you know,
1344
01:24:14,566 --> 01:24:18,161
I do the last,
I do the shape and good-bye.
1345
01:24:18,236 --> 01:24:20,534
All Manolo shoes can fit.
1346
01:24:20,605 --> 01:24:25,042
Not just fit on the foot,
but they fit into world culture,
1347
01:24:25,110 --> 01:24:27,101
and he makes them with that in mind.
1348
01:24:27,178 --> 01:24:31,740
[Manolo] I rather look beautifully made,
not expensive.
1349
01:24:32,016 --> 01:24:33,677
I don’t like expensive things.
1350
01:24:33,752 --> 01:24:36,084
He is the king of shoes. He really is.
1351
01:24:36,154 --> 01:24:38,088
And he is an artist.
1352
01:24:38,156 --> 01:24:40,056
And he’s not about trend.
1353
01:24:40,125 --> 01:24:43,151
But also, the most important thing
is the comfort factor.
1354
01:24:43,228 --> 01:24:48,222
I love the way he calls his shoes
his creatures, you know,
1355
01:24:48,299 --> 01:24:53,202
because, um, they’re not like animals
and they’re not like people,
1356
01:24:53,271 --> 01:24:56,138
but they are like creatures
of his imagination.
1357
01:24:57,509 --> 01:25:00,171
Oh, I’m sorry. Don’t you see it?
1358
01:25:00,245 --> 01:25:03,612
I think you see this nonsense.
This is really embarrassing.
1359
01:25:05,583 --> 01:25:06,607
Please.
1360
01:25:07,485 --> 01:25:10,477
[up-tempo jazz playing]
1361
01:25:44,589 --> 01:25:48,047
[music continues]
1362
01:26:32,103 --> 01:26:35,561
[music continues]
1363
01:26:58,529 --> 01:27:02,158
[music fades, ends]
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