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

[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At the start of the design process it's the designer for women that comes to the forefront - sketching and revising the silhouette. Then the man comes into the picture - and I look at the shoe from a very masculine point of view. Then there is a conflict between the two sides of me. Sometimes the man wins, and sometimes the designer wins.

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.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

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