My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.
From Christian Louboutin
I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.
You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.
If there is something I like, I buy it and then find somewhere for it. I buy first then I think.
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
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