- Manolo Blahnik -
Manolo isn't forgotten as you will have seen in this weekend's Times Magazine - Saturday 15 th - lead article
Being an ardent follower, trawler and scourer of every aspect of Style and Design over these many years I'm for ever amazed at the vast number of ladies that have an unbelievable passion and appetite to own more shoes than they can truly wear unless it is for just one occasion.
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Remember Imelda Marcos?
There are and were a number of shoe designers and brands that were "to die for" and amongst them was Manolo Blahnik. - Manuel 'Manolo' Blahnik Rodriguez CBE
Manolo was born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother, lived in the Canaries and came to London 1968 having graduated out of Geneva. one of the first design commissions that he gained was from Ozzie Clark.
When one walks along any high street any where in the world you'll always find a shoe shop. Now in the middle of a semi recession here in the UK with all the high streets having unlet shops and even with all Mary Portas' efforts to sort it the shoe shops survive!!
This series of pictures are only a small selection of the dedicated cataloguing and archiving we've carried out over the last 35 years.
APOLOGIES FOR ANY DUPLICATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are and were a number of shoe designers and brands that were "to die for" and amongst them was Manolo Blahnik. - Manuel 'Manolo' Blahnik Rodriguez CBE
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When one walks along any high street any where in the world you'll always find a shoe shop. Now in the middle of a semi recession here in the UK with all the high streets having unlet shops and even with all Mary Portas' efforts to sort it the shoe shops survive!!
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All images used on the Leslie Creasey Blog are from my hand
clipped archive documenting 35 years of Style and Design media. For all enquiries please contact leslie@charismatic-brands.com.
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