The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don’t have.
The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.
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.
If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.
Strangely enough, I really think that shoes are a communication tool between people.
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.
I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.
I’m very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I’m really concentrated.
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can’t.
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.
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.
I’m a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
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 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?’
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls – for the theater!
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.
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.
My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.