These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast.