Christian Quotes
Gerry Lopez was a famous surfer back then and his board had a lightning bolt in the in the middle, so my Dad made me a surf/skateboard with a lightning bolt on it.
Kids get caught up in technical & electronic things like games & videos when all we had were magazines.
I'd gotten to the place where I wanted to quit using drugs but couldn't and finally I landed in that prison cell where everything was cut.
I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.
Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.
In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.
I don't know if I could write songs if it wasn't for the female race, to be honest with you.
But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.
Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.
With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.
I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.
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?
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.
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.
There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.
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.
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.
