The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

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

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.