Manolo Blahnik (born November 27, 1942) is a Spanish fashion designer and an eponymous fashion label, one of the world's most prominent in women's shoes. Born in Santa Cruz de La Palma in the Canary Islands to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and raised on a banana plantation, Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva with a degree in literature in 1965 and went on to study art in Paris. Wikipedia
Manolo Blahnik started his career in shoes in the Seventies and he continues today to be an iconic fashion designer of beautiful and timeless designs. Today his shoes are synonymous with glamour and sex appeal and the shoes themselves are as notorious as www.designerfashion.biz/archives/2007/06/08/manolo-blahnik/
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Named a shoe in Sarah Jessica Parker's honor, the SJP. Longstanding friend of photographer Eric Boman and photographer/sculptor Peter Schlesinger. www.imdb.com/name/nm1333251/
