If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

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

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

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.

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?