Manolo Blahnik was born on November 27, 1942 in Santa Cruz de la Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain as Manuel Blahnik Rodríguez. He is known for his work on Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011), Marie Antoinette (2006) and Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013).