Quotes from 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.

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.

Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.

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.

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.

There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.

I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!

If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England. She and the Pope are the ultimate clients.

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.

There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. 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. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

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.

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.

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

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

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

Necessity creates everything in my life.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.

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.