The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.
My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.
I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.
Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with.
Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.
Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.
I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.
Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up. Vogue, what is that?
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.
If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.
It is a great thing to be at your age... You are at a very specific time of age ... an age where you can follow all your dreams. But also at an age when you can change-you can change your dreams, you can change paths. When you start something when you're young, you should not decide 'this is it, this is my way and I will go all the way.' You have the age where you can change. You get experience, and maybe dislike it and go another way. Your age is still an age of exploration.
A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
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.
I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
