Q Manolo Blahnik shoes are synonymous with high-en
Manolo Blahnik shoes are synonymous with high-end fashion and exclusive style status, and have been made famous by the host of divas, famous fashion and celebrity personalities and designers that have been associated with them, or better, worn them. Manolo Blahniks shoes are so well known that the word Manolo is now used as slang by millions of women who have never actually felt or even seen a pair of Manolo Blahniks, but use the term to describe very expensive, very attractive shoes.
Who is Manolo Blahnik? Manolo Blahnik is known as one of the greatest shoes designers in the world. He is one of the handfuls of designers whose name is synonymous with their creation. Manolo Blahnik is well-known for his passion to the extent of devotion for designing immaculate pairs of elegant womens shoes.
Manolo Blahnik was not nurtured to be a shoe designer though. He is not even a shoe designer by qualification. Manolo Blahnik was born in 1942 to a Czech father and a Spanish mother in Canary Islands and raised on a banana plantation. He studied literature and architecture before he moved to London in 1968 where he worked at fashion boutique, Zapata, and wrote for Vogue Italia. A chance meeting with the legendary editor of Vogue, Diana Vreeland changed the course of his life.