I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.
I prefer girls to wear dresses because I like how they influence a woman's body language. I also love skirts. One of my favorite pieces of clothing is the pencil skirt because it obliges the wearer to have a pretty attitude. I like anything that shows a woman's legs because I love to see her skin and how she walks.
The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'
I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman's legs. It's all about the leg. No, it's not about the leg. It's about the woman.
When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.
'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy.
I'm always taking into consideration how the shoe will look on the foot, its relation to the ankle and the leg - that's very important. I often see shoes that seem interesting or nice until a woman puts them on. then a lot of shoes look very clunky, and nobody likes to see that.
I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.
Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn't passed away.
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.
There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.
The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.
There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.
Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.
People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, 'If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.'
Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!
My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.
My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
One my closest friends doesn't care about sharing her clothes or jewelry, but she never shares her fragrance.
