Christian Louboutin Quotes

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.

Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

For me, everyone has many personas.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.

For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

I don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

I like my customer to be fierce.

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.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

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?'

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.

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?

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

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.

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

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?

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

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.