Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

[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 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.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you.

Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!