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

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

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.

I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.

I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.