The Spanish Designer has been embracing this through his designs since the 1970s His till date fully owned company has a presence in over 20 Countries but he still designs each and every shoe including the wooden form around which the shoe is crafted.
Blahnik has won numerous awards. The CFDA honoured him in 1987, 1990 and 1998. The BFC likewise decorated the London resident in 1990, 1999 and 2003. The Design Museum in London put on a major exhibition of his work in 2003 and his sketches have been turned into book 'Drawings, published by Thames Hudson.
The Manolo shoes are known for designing delicate and lightweight. Stiletto that imparts inherent sex appeal while being glamorous yet sophisticated.
Born in the Canary Islands, Blahnik studied languages and arts in Geneva before deciding to move to Paris in 1965 to become a set designer. After he moved to London in 1968. Blahnik wrote for Italian Vogue and started working at Zapata.
Soon during his visit to New York, his designs caught the eye of the editor-in-chief of American Vogue who encouraged Blahnik to concentrate on them. This is where the journey of these iconic shoes started.
The spotlight moment for the brand was in the '90s with Sex and City. At this point, the designer was already embraced by Names like Bianca Jagger.
Tina Chow and even Princess Diana. The '90s in New York was a place where your Shoes really mattered, because people judged you by your shoes.
For her first piece. Candace Bushnell (Author Sex and the City) wore the Manolo boots for her first shoot and went to a sex club called Le Trapeze, where a photographer took a picture of her standing on top of a pile of garbage in a towel wearing them. This was the beginning of Sex and the City.
When she bought the boots, she remembered the saleswoman telling her, "These are fabulous." They were the hot boot, her first pair of Manolo's.
She wore them with everything, she finally had something she could walk in, she wore them everywhere, for years. This is how Manolo became a vital part of the show and was constantly praised.
The company since then has collaborated with many top brands like Yves Saint Laurent and has also collaborated with Icons like Rihanna. The latest for the brand is the collaboration with Birkenstocks, still truly living by their name "Comfort with Glamour"
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