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Manolo Blahnik is a shoe designer and founder of his eponymous shoe brand. Pedro Almodovar is a film director. Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Sofia Coppola is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actress. Rafael Moneo is a Spanish architect. Andre Leon Talley is the former American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine. Michael Roberts is a British fashion journalist, illustrator, photographer, and film director."Manolo Blahnik has developed a <b>marvelous habit when it comes to storytelling</b> . . . Each section of the book blends inspirations - a person, like Blahnik's late confidante Anna Piaggi, or a place, like El Caribe - with <b>photographs of shoe designs they influenced</b>, many of them shot by the designer's longtime friend and collaborator, Michael Roberts. . . <b>All in all: <i>Perfection</i></b>!" <br /><i>-VOGUE<br /><br /></i>"A <b>fascinating look into the mind of a passionately creative person</b>, <i>Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions</i> is a <b>gorgeous new tome</b> that chronicles the myriad inspirations of the sublime shoemaker Manolo Blahnik."<br />-<i>1stDibs.com<br /><br /></i>"Manolo Blahnik is a master shoe craftsman and design visionary - all women know this fact. But <b><i>Manolo Blahnik: Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions</i> gives us more than just a glance into his impressive shoe collections through the years</b>, which features more than 250 designs. The book also shows us how the man behind the iconic luxury brand works and how his work and inspirations evolved through the years." <br />-<i>NORTHERN VIRGINIA MAGAZINE</i><br /><i> </i><br />"<b>A compendium of esoteric, exhilarating conversations</b> between Blahnik and everyone from a Cambridge classicist and a Prado curator to Pedro Almodovar and Sofia Coppola. In the course of these meandering dialogues, Blahnik marvels at the fragility of Caligula's pearl-studded sandals, fixates on such art-historical minutiae as the toenails in Velasquez's <i>Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan</i>, judges the naked feet of Alain Delon in <i>Purple Noon</i> to be 'divine,' and grows delirious gazing at the original manuscript of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's <i>The Leopard</i>, his favorite novel."<i> <br />-VANITY FAIR </i><br /><br />"Here's a gift for shoe lovers that will fit perfectly:<b> a sumptuous coffee table book featuring a detailed pictorial of over four decades of haute heels and swanky stilettos from shoemaker extraordinaire, Manolo Blahnik</b>. . . With a foreword written by the master himself, this book is so gorgeous it might require an upgrade to a coffee table worthy of its pages." <br />-<i>BELLA NEW YORK MAGAZINE</i><br /><br /><i> </i>