Blahnik praises Bonner (and drops Brexit bombshell)
29/11/2017
Ms Wales Bonner was the winner of the 2016 LVMH Prize, which earned her a year-long mentorship at LVMH and €300,000 prize money. She was selected by a panel that included Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Phoebe Philo and Nicolas Ghesquière.
More recently, her name came up in a video that Vogue España has made to promote a new exhibition of Manolo Blahnik shoes that it has curated. The exhibition, showing more than 200 pairs of Blahnik shoes, will go on show at the National Museum of Decorative Arts in Madrid until March 8, 2018.
In the video, however, the famous designer makes no reference to the exhibition. Filmed in his studio in London, it shows him drawing a new shoe design for Italian film star Lucia Bosè. At one point, Mr Blahnik talks about working with younger designers and says: “I can sniff it out when someone has something new about them. The people I work with are wonderful. I have a marvellous young person working with me now called Grace Wales Bonner. She is fantastic.”
The designer, who has lived in the UK, first in London and then in Bath, since the late 1960s, went on to say that he happy to share his knowledge and craftsmanship with young designers there before the UK’s departure from the European Union (scheduled for March 29, 2019) possibly makes life more complicated. “When Brexit hits, at least I will have left behind something worthwhile,” he said.
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