312 Quotes by Christian Louboutin

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.

If you’re passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.

I’m really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It’s a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It’s like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask – it is the same with shoes.

I didn’t even know ‘Vogue’ existed when I was growing up.

Designing my shoes, I’m thinking timeless. Not trendy.

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.

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.

A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can’t.