Christian Louboutin Quotes

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Christian Louboutin

Profession : Designer

Birth : January 7, 1964

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

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

Christian Louboutin

High heels empower women in a way.

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.

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I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school.

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Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

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High heels are pleasure with pain.

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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.

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

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You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.

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Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.

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People say I am the king of painful shoes.

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The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

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People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

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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.

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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.

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A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

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Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

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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 I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

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I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.

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