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2 weeks agoManolo Blahnik's Lifelong Obsession with Marie Antoinette
Manolo Blahnik grew up with Marie Antoinette. Not literally, of course - she died in France in 1793, and Blahnik was born on La Palma in the Canary Islands 149 years later. But he has been obsessed with the ill-fated queen since childhood - a memory that has lingered and shaped the way he has designed women's shoes for some 55 years.
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