Manolo Blahnik Quotes
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Quotes to Explore
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As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
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Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
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Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
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Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
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We're trying to get the world to see it's not always about the outside, it's about the inside.
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Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
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About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
