Christian Louboutin
I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.Collection: Design
Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.Collection: Communication
I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.Collection: Teacher
Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.Collection: Beauty
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!Collection: Design
I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.Collection: Design
When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.Collection: Attitude
I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.Collection: Movies
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.Collection: Gardening
I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.Collection: Attitude
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.Collection: Love
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.Collection: Architecture
The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.Collection: Attitude
People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.Collection: Design
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.Collection: Design
A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.Collection: Design
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.Collection: Design
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?Collection: Design
Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.Collection: Christmas
I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'Collection: Design
High heels empower women in a way.Collection: Women
High heels are pleasure with pain.
You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.
A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.
I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.
People say I am the king of painful shoes.
A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.
I like my customer to be fierce.
I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.
I am more feminist than feminists.
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.
I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.
I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.
Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.
I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.
I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.
One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.
You know, I'm behind my company. My company has been a big part of my life. And it's not that I been buying a company or that my father bought a company and tried to do something out of it. You know, it's not the same thing. It's my name, it's my company, it's my signature.
There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!
One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.
Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.