I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

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

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

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

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.