Top 101 Christian Louboutin Quotes

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.

I’m really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It’s a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

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

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

I love flip-flops. It’s the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

I don’t like conflicts. I’m not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

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.

Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in ‘Saturday Night Fever.’

A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It’s like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask – it is the same with shoes.

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

The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones – precious stones – and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

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 don’t give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I’m only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn’t only have one way of seeing things.

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!

Men in high heels? That’s a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

I didn’t even know ‘Vogue’ existed when I was growing up.

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

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.

If there is something I like, I buy it and then find somewhere for it. I buy first then I think.

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

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

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

I guess, being French, I love Hollywood.

When you sketch a shoe but don’t have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

I am very much into voices. I would say I’m a fan of voices, not of sound. I’m a fan of singers, not of bands.

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

Necessity creates everything in my life.

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

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.

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention – an extravagance. They’re far from natural, but it’s the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

Everyone has their dates. For me, it’s 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It’s the year I became an adult. My mother died, and I created my company shortly thereafter. I definitely would not have done it if she hadn’t passed away.

I hate the whole concept of comfort! It’s like when people say: ‘Well we’re not really in love but we’re in a comfortable relationship.’ You’re abandoning a lot of ideas when you’re too into comfort.

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls – for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour – and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.

I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don’t see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!

I am more feminist than feminists.

My job is designing shoes. It’s work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It’s the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

Designing my shoes, I’m thinking timeless. Not trendy.

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

To me, the word ‘decadent’ is so difficult to use; it’s a very sensitive word, in a way.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work – it is part of the French privilege.

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

If I’m in Italy, I’m going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don’t drink tea in Italy.

Even if you don’t like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn’t like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.

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.

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

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

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

My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.

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.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

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.

I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.

No woman wants to have fat ankles.

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

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.

There are a million things I’d rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.