Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.

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

People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.