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• Manolo Blahnik ?Ningia? Sandals ? Malin Ackerman

  Shoebunny - Found Nov. 2, 2009 Shoebunny spotted Malin Ackerman in Manolo Blahnik sandals . This style is called ?Ningia? and is from the Manolo Blahnik spring/summer 2009

• Tell-Nones and Tell-Alls

  Peter Bodo's TennisWorld - Found Nov. 2, 2009 ... this was a guy who never lost a match because his girlfriend stabbed him with the heel of a Manolo Blahnik pump.

• Wearing Shoes Inside Can Be Hazardous to Health. Talk About Killer ...

  AOL Style Blog - Found Nov. 1, 2009 After all, there's a lot we'd do for our Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik heels, but making our kiddies or kitties sick just isn't one of...

• This Week in Shoes

  Shoe Blog - Found Oct. 25, 2009 - Manolo Blahnik offers his thoughts on the spring 2010?s shoe trends.  His take on Chanel?s runway clogs?  Manolo says, ??When I design,

• Celebrity shoe designer Manolo Blahnik: ?I hate celebrities?

  Cele|bitchy - Found Oct. 20, 2009 Manolo Blahnik was always known as one of the best shoe designers in the world, but his association with Sex and the City took his brand to the ...

• Manolo Blahnik hates celebritites

  My Fashion Life - Found Oct. 20, 2009 Legendary shoe designer Manolo Blahnik has admitted he hates celebrities and ?pointless? girls. ?I hate celebrities,? he said.

• Manolo Blahnik Hates Celebrities

  Style Crunch - Found Oct. 19, 2009 Forget celebs: Manolo Blahnik only wants stylish women to wear his shoes.

• Manolo Blahnik stamps out the platform shoe

  Telegraph - Found Oct. 23, 2009 ?Sex & The City? shoe designer prefers the ?Zero Sole? There can be chine else in the world as thrilled as Manolo Blahnik, the man who put

• Manolo Blahnik Hates ‘Pointless Girls’

  New York Magazine - Found Oct. 19, 2009 Manolo Blahnik: 'I hate celebrities. All those pointless girls I won't name names, but you know who I mean. They are 'famous.' Ridiculous.

• THIS WEEK IN TWEETS

  New York Fashion Indie - Found Oct. 24, 2009 THIS) # Bloomberg To Stage Project Runway Type Competition http://bit.ly/D96Xj (RT THIS) # QUOTE: Manolo Blahnik http://bit.ly/cdmnU...

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Manolo Blahnik (pronounced /məˈnoʊloʊ ˈblænɨk/ BLAN-ik), CBE, (born 27 November 1942 Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands, is a Spanish born British fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand.

Contents 1 Biography 2 In popular culture 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and raised in the Canary Islands, Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965 and studied art in Paris. He moved to London in 1968 to work at fashion boutique "Zapata" and write for Vogue Italia. After showing his portfolio of fashions and set designs to Diana Vreeland, she told him that he should design only footwear. In 1972, Ossie Clark invited him to create shoes for his runway show. With a loan of £2,000, Blahnik bought Zapata from its owner and opened his own boutique. ¹

Manolo Blahnik's flagship store remains to date in Old Church Street, Chelsea London.

Blahnik's boutiques are located in London, New York, Las Vegas, Dublin, Athens, Madrid, Istanbul, Dubai, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore. Bloomingdales (for which he created his first American collection), Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue carry his line in the United States and newly opened in Dubai Mall.

Blahnik was awarded the honorary title of Commander of the British Empire in 2007 for his service to the British fashion industry.

In popular culture

The staff of the TV show, Angel, asked Manolo Blahnik for permission to use their company name onscreen. The company then provided footwear for the episode and insisted that characters wear the products even if the shoes were not shown on camera. The company was mentioned in the line: Cordelia: [to Eve] "Get out of that chair, and I will feed you those Manolo Blahniks - which are stunning, by the way."

In the Will and Grace episode Polk Defeats Truman (season 2 episode 5) Grace scoffs at Karen's budget imposed on her by her husband by saying "Karen, I think you can live on this. I mean Spain does, so..." Karen retorts "Grace they wear tires on their feet, I wear Manolo Blahniks."

There are also many references to Blahniks in the popular long-running TV show "Sex and the City".

In Weird Al Yankovic's song "Close but No Cigar", He mentions Julie, a girl who "Wore a ribbon on her left Manolo"

In Beyoncé Knowles' version of "In Da Club", she mentions that she is "The chick with the 'hot ish' Manolo Blahnik."

Mira Sorvino wears them in "The Last Templar (TV miniseries)" and asks Scott Foley to pay for them after she chased a criminal on a horse. Scott's colleague mentions "If you have to ask, you can't afford them".

They are referenced multiple times in Duck Dodgers whenever any sort of footwear defect occurs, typically with the grumbled phrase "Cheap counterfeit Minolo Blahniks".

In her song, Fashion (From Confessions of a Shopaholic), Lady GaGa mentions "Manolo".

In the book, "Julie & Julia" by Julie Powell, she refers to her friend Sally buying manolos on E-bay which made her friend deliciously sexy.

References

1. ^ Manolo Blahnik Design Museum Retrieved 7 August 2008

nydailynews Brian Reyes decides to ditch the shoes

External links

• Official website
• fashion-forum.org biography
• Design Museum bio/profile

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