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

I am more feminist than feminists.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. 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.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

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

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.