I hate the whole concept of comfort!

Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

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

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 always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

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.