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

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

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

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

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.

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.