Manolo Blahnik on the Soulful, Sacred Works of Francisco de Zurbarán

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“Zurbarán has been my obsession since I was a little boy,” ManoloBlahnik tells Susannah Frankel

celebrates the 50th anniversary of his business this year. The most feted shoe designer of our time, his work has been exhibited in major international museums and purchased by discerning women for half a century. After growing up in Santa Cruz de la Palma in the Canary Islands, he studied law and literature in Geneva, before moving to Paris in 1968 and then to London, intending to pursue a career in set design.

“We used to travel by boat to get to school in Geneva or to get my sister to school in Germany. And we always stopped in Cádiz, where there’s the wonderful Museo de Cádiz, which has an incredible collection of Zurbaráns. I must have been about 13 by then, or even 15, and what a revelation it was. Every time I passed by Cádiz for whatever reason, I went there. It was wonderful – Zurbarán seemed like second nature to me by then.

“He influences my work. Not all the time, but often. The stiff materials I use sometimes, religious materials, heavy wools, tweeds – I love the austerity of those things. Then there’s my interest in the 18th century, which I have also always been very receptive to – those manners. You can read Saint-Simon and on each page you can imagine a shoe. Zurbarán is very pure, very austere. The 18th century is not very practical but I love that too. I am kind of deranged in a funny way.

 

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