What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

I am more feminist than feminists.

I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.