A version of this article appeared in the December 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Life’s Work: Manolo Blahnik
Manolo Blahnik is one of the world’s most successful shoe designers. Raised by his Spanish mother and Czech father on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands, he studied law, languages, and art in Geneva and Paris before opening his London boutique in 1973. His eponymous company now has shops or department store concessions in […]