Christian louboutin quotes

I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up. Vogue, what is that?

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that came from a woman who lives here in Paris...I know my street much better. Heels permit me to take the time to look at the architecture of my street. Now I take time to look at things.' High heels give you time to think, to look at your surroundings- a camel has seen more in life than a very quick horse! Women should live to rhythm of high-heeled shoes!

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

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.

I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

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.

For me, everyone has many personas.

What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

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.

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.

One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

I sort of don't believe in trends. I know that they exist, but what is important at the end of the day is to remain independent

A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

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

I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

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.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

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. Their feet are arched.

When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going...everything else falls into place.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman.

I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'

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

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.

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.

High heels empower women in a way.

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

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At the start of the design process it's the designer for women that comes to the forefront - sketching and revising the silhouette. Then the man comes into the picture - and I look at the shoe from a very masculine point of view. Then there is a conflict between the two sides of me. Sometimes the man wins, and sometimes the designer wins.

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

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.

A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you.

Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with.

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.

If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

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.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

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.

For me there ain't no high heel high enough!

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

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.

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

I prefer girls to wear dresses because I like how they influence a woman's body language. I also love skirts. One of my favorite pieces of clothing is the pencil skirt because it obliges the wearer to have a pretty attitude. I like anything that shows a woman's legs because I love to see her skin and how she walks.

I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.

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.

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.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.

Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing

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. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.

I hate the whole concept of comfort!

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

Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

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.

These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.

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.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

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.

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.

Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy.

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.

The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman.

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

High heels are pleasure with pain.

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.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

I hate the concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable! And 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 are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women.

I'm always taking into consideration how the shoe will look on the foot, its relation to the ankle and the leg - that's very important. I often see shoes that seem interesting or nice until a woman puts them on. then a lot of shoes look very clunky, and nobody likes to see that.

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

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.

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

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.

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.

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

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

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.