I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

I like my customer to be fierce.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.