“I can’t remember the exact day Manolo  Blahnik entered what I consider to be the great family of fashion(…).I do, however, remember my children crawling on hands and knees around his Old Church workshop in the 80’s back when I was Vogue England’s editor-in-chief and I would visit him for a cup of tea. Manolo’s workshop was, and still is, a magical and fairytale-like place.”

 

 

Anna Wintour, Vogue USA’s editor-in-chief.

 

Tempted to find out what Manolo’s shop looks like today, exactly forty years after its opening in 1971?

Destination:

49-51 Old Church Street

London SW3 5BS

 

Credit

Photographs by Alexandra S. Jupillat

Source

Free translation from “Manolo Blahnik dessins”, Thames&Hudson edition. Foreword by Anna Wintour.