Quotes from Christian Louboutin

I guess, being French, I love Hollywood.

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.

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

Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.

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.

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.

A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.

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

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.

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

High heels empower women in a way.

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.

Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.

My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens.

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.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

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.

The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.

For me there ain't no high heel high enough.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

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

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

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'