Manolo Blahnik just let the other shoe drop on his footwear rival Christian Louboutin. The red-sole cobbler launched a new app last month called Louboutinize, which lets users wash their Instagrams in a Rouge filter. But 72-year-old Blahnik scoffed at the idea of creating a similar program himself.

“I don’t want gimmicks like that. I can’t stand it,” Blahnik tells Threads. “I find it very tacky. I like to do things how they should be done,” adds the designer, whose new book, “Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions,” debuted last week.

That also means skipping over the whole ugly-shoe trend, especially those infamous goat-fur, $1,800 Gucci loafers. “I’m not keen on this thing,” says Blahnik of the Muppet-esque slippers. “Doing this is kind of old-fashioned. You have to do beautiful stuff nowadays, things that are going to last. I don’t like ugly things, heavy things. I like light and beautifully made,” he says. “Unfortunately, not into this.”

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