The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.

People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

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

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

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!