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"  Photo: Getty Images Very few designers achieve the first-name celebrity status that Manolo Blahnik (make that Manolo) has, and even fewer have enjoyed a stellar 40-year career. Naturally, we were pinching ourselves as we sat down for a screening of the footwear designer&amp;#039;s spring 2014 fashion film. Jealousy!, directed by Michael Roberts, is a witty silent short, which stars Rupert Everett as a bewildered lover amongst Blahnik&amp;#039;s fringed and petal-embellished stilettos. After the show, the beyond-charming Blahnik was anything but silent as he chatted openly about his disgust for platforms, being an Anglophile, and, yes, La Lohan. How did Rupert Everett come to be cast in the film?  Michael Roberts is the one who picked him out, but I&amp;#039;ve known Rupert a hundred years. He&amp;#039;s such a generous person, and he was brilliant as Oscar Wilde [in The Judas Kiss]. I want to see him again. But this is what happens with English people when you get to know them for a long time: They&amp;#039;re [your] friend forever. And on top of that, they&amp;#039;re so generous. [Being involved] was a really generous act, instead of [saying], &amp;quot;Ugh, production values\u2026&amp;quot; I mean, it&amp;#039;s five minutes.  You&amp;#039;re Spanish, but have always been involved with British fashion and have your flagship here in London. What does the city mean to you?  London is my home. When I came to London, I really was in love. My father was a total Anglophile, and I grew up with Little Dorrit translated in Spanish and all of the Dickens [novels]. From a very young age of maybe three, I was mad about Enid Blyton. So London was always a choice somehow. Even before I came here, I loved it.  In terms of shoes, do you have any personal pet peeves? What do you think of platforms, for instance?  Oh no, don&amp;#039;t talk about that word! Even the most beautiful woman in the world\u2014and especially small women\u2014looks so out of volume with platforms. There&amp;#039;s something kind of obscene, very suburban\u2014it&amp;#039;s not the right thing. I liked it in the &amp;#039;70s for one second, and then there was something in the &amp;#039;80s and it was like\u2014[claps hands]\u2014I hated it.  Do you think about what your legacy will be?  As long as I make people happy, I&amp;#039;m okay. I don&amp;#039;t do it with any sort of reason or legacy in mind.  What inspires you?  I have all sorts of silent movies. I adore it. I love the voices of actors, but I grew up with the voices dubbed in Spanish. My favorite period is the 1910s and &amp;#039;20s in Hollywood. I love it\u2014so grand.  After working with the likes of J.Crew and Liberty, would you be open to doing any more collaborations?  Yes, yes, yes. I love any kids who come to me. I do it for nothing, I just like it. But sometimes, I don&amp;#039;t. I did it a long time ago with Rifat \u00D6zbek and started to do it with people I liked. Then I started with people I didn&amp;#039;t like, and then I regretted it [laughs].  Obviously the whole Carrie Bradshaw and &amp;#039;Sex and the City&amp;#039; phenomenon had a big impact on your career. Is there someone current who you see as the new big style icon?  At the moment? I saw some fabulous movie the other day called The Canyons with, believe it or not, Lindsay Lohan looking perfectly destroyed. And the boy is called James Deen\u2014not James Dean, but James Deen the porn star. It&amp;#039;s a brilliant movie, and Lindsay Lohan is a fabulous actress. Maybe she&amp;#039;s playing herself, because she&amp;#039;s destroyed and crying all the time. I loved it.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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