Christian Louboutin Quotes

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.

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

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.

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.

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 am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!

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.'

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

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.

One my closest friends doesn't care about sharing her clothes or jewelry, but she never shares her fragrance.

Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

I am more feminist than feminists.

I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'

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.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I'm really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It's a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.

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?'