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

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

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

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

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

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 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.