Christian Louboutin Quotes

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

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.

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

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

One my closest friends doesn't care about sharing her clothes or jewelry, but she never shares her fragrance.

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

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.

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.

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.

My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens.

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.

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

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

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

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.

A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.

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

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

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

Listen, to appeal to someone else you might put on a pair of shoes that you don't like or a dress you don't like. But there's no way you're going to put on a perfume you don't like; it's too personal.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

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

One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.

I hate the whole concept of comfort!

High heels are pleasure with pain.

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

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.

High heels empower women in a way.

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.

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.

Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'

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?'

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'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.

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