Manolo Blahnik was feeling uninspired by high heels. A new collaboration with Birkenstock brought him back.
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik is a fashion orator from another time, when sweeping pronouncements and eccentric diktats were as important as listing colors and trends. Explaining history and dissecting beauty is an art form unto itself, nurturing a manner of speaking that was also epitomized by the late Andre Leon Talley and Diana Vreeland .
His hygiene goals: “I’m absolutely mad for washing five times a day. Summertime? It’s a shower every two hours.” After all, as Mr. Blahnik declared in a recent phone interview, “What is the point of talking to people if you don’t have fun?!” “That bloody shoe has been going for years and years,” Mr. Blahnik said of the Hangisi. “I want to really just stop that thing,” but “customers want to have the security objects that they know; that’s the reason people keep buying that shoe.”Similarly, Mr. Blahnik says he considers Birkenstocks unchanging classics, like Church’s Brogues, a timeless handbag, or his BB Pump .
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