Quotes by 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.

I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why Im part of the fashion industry. But thats never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

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.

At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

If Im in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - lart daccommoder les restes - it means gardening.

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.

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

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