This story is taken from the Autumn/Winter 2025 issue of AnOther Magazine: 

Manolo Blahnik grew up with Marie Antoinette. Not literally, of course – she died in France in 1793, and Blahnik was born on La Palma in the Canary Islands 149 years later. But he has been obsessed with the ill-fated queen since childhood – a memory that has lingered and shaped the way he has designed women’s shoes for some 55hellip;

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