A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you.

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

For me, everyone has many personas.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

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