Christian Louboutin Quotes
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Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
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I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.
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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.
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I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
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I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'
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A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
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The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'
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My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.
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The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman.
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When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.
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When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going...everything else falls into place.
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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.
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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.
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I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.
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A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
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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.
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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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I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
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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.
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I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.
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In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.
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There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
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I am more feminist than feminists.
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For me, everyone has many personas.
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At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!
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If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
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Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.
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I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.
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Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy.
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[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At the start of the design process it's the designer for women that comes to the forefront - sketching and revising the silhouette. Then the man comes into the picture - and I look at the shoe from a very masculine point of view. Then there is a conflict between the two sides of me. Sometimes the man wins, and sometimes the designer wins.
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