Christian Louboutin Quotes
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The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
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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.
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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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I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
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I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
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I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.
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Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.
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I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.
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I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.
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I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.
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Fruit in the morning is such a big joy for me. I like to grab fruit from the tree, et cetera. I don't feel that way with vegetables. Fruit, you can eat it at any time, any moment, in any type of situation. I like everything about fruit; I like the color.
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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.
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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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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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If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.
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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.
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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.
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I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!
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I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'
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In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.
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When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
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I am more feminist than feminists.
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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.
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Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.