Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

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.

Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.

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

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

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

I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.