I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

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.

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

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

A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman.

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

You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.