Christian Louboutin Quotes
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I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
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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 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.
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High heels are pleasure with pain.
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When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.
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I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'
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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.
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I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.
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In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.
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I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.
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I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.
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For me there ain't no high heel high enough.
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I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.
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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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When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.
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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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I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
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When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!
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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.
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I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.
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I guess, being French, I love Hollywood.
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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.
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There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
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A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.