MANOLO BLAHNIK

12 THINGS HE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT

PETER TERZIAN

It’s natural that the world’s most famous shoe designer believes in the importance of feet: “The first thing you do when you wake up is look down,” explains Manolo Blahnik. Born to cultured parents in Spain’s Canary Islands, Blahnik, a passionate reader and cinephile, has made footwear inspired by Alexander the Great, War and Peace, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. His long career—from his revival of the stiletto heel in the 1970s to last year’s collaborations with Rihanna—is now the subject of a traveling museum retrospective as well as a new book, The Art of Shoes (Skira Rizzoli). “The foot is the most expressive part of the body,” says Blahnik. “When I was young, I would caress the feet of statues to see how wonderfully they were made.” 1 /GREEN…

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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2017

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