Manolo Blahnik Quotes

In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

If I were a girl, I always like Chanel. It's so stylish and timeless. So I like Karl Lagerfeld a lot.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.

The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

So I like that sound, but I am not interested in being retro.

To me, England is past its sell-by date. It's not the country I grew up in.

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

I used to be more glamorous.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

A “good” family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Should I get back to playing like the 18-year-old Mario Gotze again? I will never be the old Mario Gotze again.

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

I think poshness is very funny! But I think it's also delightful. There's something wonderful and very innocent about it, particularly with the Edwardians.

This fragrance 'Parisienne' by YSL was my fave back when I lived in London.

I always loved clothes. I grew up in a blue-collar family, but I loved old movies and seeing all those dashing leading men.