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

Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.

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.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

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.

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

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.