Manolo Blahnik Quotes

I like sweaters. I have a sweater obsession, I guess.

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

Leather pants are my guilty fashion pleasure. I have at least 10 pairs in navy, red, white, dusty pink, grey, suede and black.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

I really like jackets and tend to buy them to the detriment of my need of all the other items.

I love leather jackets, and I am obsessed with it. I carry leather jackets fairly well.

I love my black shirts; I have usually 14 of them at any one time.

A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

I never know what I'm going to wear until five minutes before I go somewhere... I guess I know what I'm comfortable in. I don't know how to describe that, I mean you either put it on and go 'no way' or 'OK, let's go.'

Ce n'est gue' re que dans les asiles que les coquettes gardent avec ente" tement une foi entie' re en des regards absents; normalement, elles re clament des te moins. Women fond of dress are hardly ever entirely satisfied not to be seen, except among the insane; usually they want witnesses.

I love Vivienne Westwood. So much. Every time I go to London, first thing I do is go in there. It's ridiculous!

New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally.

I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.