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

If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.

I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.