Christian Louboutin Quotes
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In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.
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If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.
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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.
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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.
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Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
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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.
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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.'
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Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
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Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.
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The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
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My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.
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I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.
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My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.
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I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.
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You know, you cannot be comfortable on a high heel shoes the way you would be in sneakers. But, you know, not everyone wants to be on sneakers. Sneakers are for different purposes.
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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.
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People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.
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I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.
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For me there ain't no high heel high enough.
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The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
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I am more feminist than feminists.
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I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.
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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.
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I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.