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

Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.

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?

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.

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.

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