312 Quotes by Christian Louboutin

Don’t reject a shoe because you can’t run in it. It’s OK not to run.

I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don’t see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

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?

I don’t like conflicts. I’m not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

I’ve always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity – from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, ‘Cabaret.’

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls – for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour – and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

I mean, the shoe – there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it’s a movement. Clothes – it’s a different story. There are a million things I’d rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

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.