Christian Louboutin : (8)

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

" High heels are pleasure with pain. " - Christian Louboutin

" I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn’t like the ‘naturalism,’ the sad or the ‘down-to-earth’ characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor – and beautiful women. " - Christian Louboutin

" High heels empower women in a way. " - Christian Louboutin

" 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. " - Christian Louboutin

" 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. " - Christian Louboutin

" People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, ‘If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.’ " - Christian Louboutin

" Fashion isn’t interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. " - Christian Louboutin