The famous designer women's footwear has put the world upside down: the Manolo Blahnik shoes are always in the spotlight. This symbolic value, the object is not so much desire as worship, which is not the first decade attracts anxious gazes of men, competitors and visitors of museums.In 1942 Manolo Blahnik born in the Canary Islands. He and his younger sister, Evangeline grow away from the world's capitals, studied at home. We had no neighbors, there was only the house of his grandfather, " recalls the designer. Banana palm trees, the sea, and we -- in General, a Paradise". Parents often go to Paris and Madrid, where the mother gets things favorite designers, for example, of her Balenciaga. Sometimes it fun learning how to make Catalan espadrilles under the guidance of a local shoemaker. "I am confident that the interest in shoes I almost genetic - says the designer. I not only watched from ribbons and laces born shoes, but I was allowed to be involved in the process". In addition, the mother writes American fashion magazines, including Vogue and Glamour, which for months sailing across the Atlantic in one parcel with children's comics.
Parents want Blahnik became a diplomat and in 1965 sending of the son in the University of Geneva to study politics and law. However, he prefers to engage in literature and architecture, and then moved to Paris to study art history at the School of fine arts. Life Blanik earns boutique vintage clothing on the street Bonaparte. Three years later, his father helps him to move to London and act in linguistic College to improve English, but Manolo for the most part, spends the afternoon in the cinema on Leicester square. Along the way, he works in fashion boutiques, designer takes orders, and wrote for Vogue Italia and dreams of becoming a painter of theatrical scenery.
Collecting a portfolio of their designs, Blahnik is sent to new York in the hope of finding a dream job. His Parisian girlfriend Paloma Picasso, youngest daughter of the famous artist, introduces Manolo with Diana Vreeland, editor of American Vogue and iconic figure in the fashion industry. After reviewing the work of overseas guests, Freeland notes sketch, on which adorned the Shoe with pluses and branch cherry, wrap around the ankle. Sounds fateful phrase, which, apparently, the world is good theater artist: "Why don't you do the accessories? Take care of your shoes - you have it doing very well".
Returning to London in 1972, encouraged Manolo began composing mens shoes, but quickly disappointed: it is impossible to do better, not bringing strange men style elements. Designer switches to the fair sex, supplying shoes for the boutique Zapata in Chelsea. The fine news hunt begins: they snapped fashion critics and stars, including Jane Birkin and Charlotte Rampling. Ossie Clark orders the Blanik first collection for your show. Shoes turn out great, but weird - heels SAG under the weight of the heel, because Blanik by his own admission "forgot to strengthen". However, in General, it turns out so well that the British Vogue recommends that relate to technical imperfections with humor. A year later the designer buys Zapata and begins to manage the business on a pair with her sister, Evangeline. Women's Wear Daily says the boutique, as "one of the most exotic places of London, and shoes calls "though not as convenient, but certainly very unusual". Witnesses said that Zapata was full of life master commands assistants, talks about the latest issue of Vogue and talking on the phone with friends and customers, including Jerry Hall and Bianca Jagger (the latter, incidentally, in 1977 enters into Studio 54 on a white horse, it is in shoes Manolo Blahnik).
Manolo - impunity urban hero, an icon of style. He becomes the first man who got on the cover of British Vogue in proposale with Anjelica Huston on the backdrop of a blazing sunset sea. However, the designer does not only prohlazhdayutsya; rather, visits the Studio, mastering the secrets of the craft, looking for the best producers. "It took me many years to understand how to make beautiful and technically perfect shoes".
It was in 1978 Manolo begins expansion into the American market. First collection for Bloomingdales, then store on Madison Avenue collection for Perry Ellis. The formula for success in the Blanik is verified combination of avant-garde elements with classic, timeless and solutions, coupled with extravagant details and quality, unusual for the era of mass production. Recognizable charm shoes Manolo Blahnik give hints eclectic Pantheon of the sources of inspiration of the designer, including the films of Visconti, Jean Cocteau, the Grand ladies of the past Elizabeth of Austria and Paulina Borghese, the paintings of El Greco and velázquez, as well as the creation of Cristobal Balenciaga, Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Blanik returned women studs, ending the era of thick platforms. This, of course, not the only one finding it: similarly, Manolo turned from childhood he familiar silhouette Mediterranean mules in the trendy shoes mules.
A year later, Manolo creates shoes for the collection of pret-a-porter Calvin Klein entering new range of clients. This is only the first of the joint projects of the designer, nahodimsa natural success. It is enough to mention the collaboration with Isaac Mizrahi, John Galliano, bill Blass, Carolina Herrera, Oscar de La Renta.
Blanik turns into a phenomenon of mass culture in 1991. Marge Simpson flaunts in his shoes in a new episode of "the Simpsons". After 10 years, the Manolo Blahnik shoes will become a full-fledged hero of the second plan of the cult TV series "Sex and the city". As told Carrie Bradshaw, once face to face with a robber on the street in new York city: "Sir, please take a handbag of Fendi, take the ring and watch, but don't touch my Manolo Blahnik". In the decade that separates these benefits, Blahnik received two CFDA awards, two awards British Fashion Council and has embodied itself in the minds of hundreds of thousands, as a man, single-handedly creating the design of all the shoes of his brand, personally perfecting details and meticulous care in controlling product quality. In 1998, Vice President of Neiman Marcus admitted that shoes Manolo - not so much desire as worship, and a visit to his shop - act, akin to a pilgrimage. Madonna is in turn owned by perhaps the most famous quote on the subject: "Shoes Manolo Blahnik is like sex, only better. They last longer". The designer did not deny that his shoes is largely erotic story. "Is the woman to stand on heels as her gait changes. She instantly becomes sexier".
Manolo Blahnik became the first Shoe designer to be awarded a solo exhibition at the London design Museum. At the same time there is a luxury edition of the design have masters. After two years, the designer creates shoes for Sofia Coppola's film "Marie Antoinette". The picture takes the Oscar for best costumes. In 2007, for his contribution in the development of the English fashion Blanik awarded the title of Chevalier of the order of the British Empire. In some cases, the design of women's shoes - an issue of national importance. If not more.
Author:
Napreenko And.
Source:
Vogue
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