When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

I'm always taking into consideration how the shoe will look on the foot, its relation to the ankle and the leg - that's very important. I often see shoes that seem interesting or nice until a woman puts them on. then a lot of shoes look very clunky, and nobody likes to see that.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

My mother was a huge influence on me - she was a free spirit and helped me appreciate, from a very early age, that everyone is different.

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