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

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 don't repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I'd rather surprise people.

I like my customer to be fierce.

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

I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.