Christian Louboutin Quotes Page 2

“For me, everyone has many personas.”

“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.”

“Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women – it's your essence, your identity.”

“Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.”

“High heels are pleasure with pain.”

“High heels empower women in a way.”

“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 am more feminist than feminists.”

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

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

“I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention – an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.”

“I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.”

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

“I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.”

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

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

“I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. 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 like my customer to be fierce.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret'.”

“I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.”