I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'
— Christian Louboutin
When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!
Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.
There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.
Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
High heels empower women in a way.
My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens.
I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
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.
A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.
I like my customer to be fierce.
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?
No woman wants to have fat ankles.
I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.
A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.
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.
Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
Necessity creates everything in my life.
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.
People say I am the king of painful shoes.
I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.
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.
Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.
Everyone wears what they feel great in or comfortable with.
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.
When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.
I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.
A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.
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.
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
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.
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.
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.
Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.
The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
I guess, being French, I love Hollywood.
I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.
I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.
Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.
Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.
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.'
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!
I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.
