Christian Louboutin Shoes Quotations

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 you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement.

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.

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

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.

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

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.

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.

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

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

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

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

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.

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.

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.

Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.

I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.

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.

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

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.

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?'

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'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.

In designing shoes for myself; I'm not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I'm just not thinking of clothes at all. I'm always thinking of a naked woman, actually.

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

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.

Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women.

A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.

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

A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you.

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.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing

A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else