Manolo Blahnik

I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.