“My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.” IfsSoundBlackKeysInstrumentsMy FavoritePianoMulesBlack Keys Author:Christian Louboutin
“If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.” IfsWayBest WayRelaxWhat You Love Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.” IfsLooksMirrorsShoesBoxesLikes Author:Christian Louboutin
“I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingFantasyFashionDesigner Author:Christian Louboutin
“If I'm in Italy I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.” IfsTwoDrinkTeaOrangeGrapefruitCappuccino Author:Christian Louboutin
“I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.” IfsLooksSaidCareWalksFashionComfortableShoesComplimentHeelsWho CaresHigh HeelsComfortable Shoes Author:Christian Louboutin
“If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.” IfsCreativityAliveDesignEnthusiasmPrimariesBoredTranslateMottoFamily Friends Author:Christian Louboutin
“When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.” IfsNeedsI CanLightHouseCreativeColdSummerDrawsGood ThingsWinterDrawingEveningCollectionsWarmth Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.” PeopleIfsTryingI CanHelpingStyleSurpriseRepeats Author:Christian Louboutin
“I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.” IfsFeelsHouseDiseaseFeel GoodI Feel Good Author:Christian Louboutin
“If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.” IfsWould BeSpecialProjectsEnglandShoesQueensIf I CouldQueen Of England Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.'” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsHappensFatherHappenedGhostCurse Author:Christian Louboutin
“Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.” IfsDifferentEndsCultureRedSymbolsColourColour Red Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.” IfsYearsI CanDoneMotherMemoriesCompanyAdultsDiedPassed AwayMother Died Author:Christian Louboutin
“Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.” IfsNeedsLooksEnoughHelpingDifficultFeetStyleStructureBonesVarietyCompareSkeletonsPumps Author:Christian Louboutin
“I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.” PeopleIfsGivingEffortPaidShoes Author:Christian Louboutin
“I have no problem with the idea of comfort, but it is not an important thing aesthetically. If you look at a shoe and immediately say it looks very comfortable, in terms of design, it is not going to excite me. Of course, I am not putting nails in my shoes to ensure everybody is in pain, but a heel is not a pair of slippers and never will be.” IfsLooksImportantIdeasProblemPainCoursesTermDesignComfortComfortableImportant ThingsShoesPairsHeelsNailsNo ProblemSlippers Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsLittlesMightAsksDrinkDinnerFaithfulBrownDeliciousSourBartenderBourbonRumChilly Author:Christian Louboutin
“If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.” IfsMeanArtIdeasCountryBigsTalkingCookingGardeningBig IdeasFridgesLeftovers Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.” IfsLooksBodyFeetStrangeHeightLengthTerritorySoleHeelsPostureArchesBallerina Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.” IfsWorldLooksShoesPassionateTransformed Author:Christian Louboutin
“In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.” PeopleIfsJoyFunCreativeHaving FunCreative Business Author:Christian Louboutin
“In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.” IfsI CanRevolutionPrivilegeFranceWorking ItLunchGoing To Work Author:Christian Louboutin
“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.” IfsFatherViewsBreakWoodsSensitiveGrainSplinters Author:Christian Louboutin
“One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you're walking in heels, you've got time. It's much more attractive.” PeopleIfsMovingRaceWalkingSexyAttractiveHeelsEngagingWalking Fast Author: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.” IfsPainThreeHoursWalksPleasureImpossibleStageBandHeelsHigh HeelsTurner Author:Christian Louboutin
