In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.
From Christian Louboutin
The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?
My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.
I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.
When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!
I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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