Top 77 Christian Louboutin Quotes

I have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I… buy a house.

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.

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

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.

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

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

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.

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

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

I am more feminist than feminists.

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

What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn’t extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, ‘Oh my God, I can’t walk in that!’ It was like, three inches – they look like kitten heels now.

High heels empower women in a way.

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That’s about it.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.

I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.

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

I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.

When I’m doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.

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

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

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

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

The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman’s legs. It’s all about the leg. No, it’s not about the leg. It’s about the woman.

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.

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.

I wouldn’t take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, ‘Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.’ There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels.

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

Boredom is a concept that I don’t understand.

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

There’s nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.

I’ll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won’t do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

Everyone wears what they feel great in or comfortable with.

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

Fashion isn’t interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It’s like voodoo; we don’t want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I’m very easygoing – and it shows in my work.

I love David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive;’ such a wonderful movie.

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing… but that’s impossible.

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.

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.

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

Necessity creates everything in my life.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I’m very shocked when people start a company and say, ‘In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.’ How can you know?

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

You know, I’m behind my company. My company has been a big part of my life. And it’s not that I been buying a company or that my father bought a company and tried to do something out of it. You know, it’s not the same thing. It’s my name, it’s my company, it’s my signature.

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

Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.

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.

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can’t.

People say I am the king of painful shoes.

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

I don’t repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I’d rather surprise people.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I’m flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

I’m not in the type of work where you should rest.

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

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

Passage Vero-Dodat – I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!

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 could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.

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.

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

You’re abandoning a lot of ideas when you’re too into comfort.

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

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

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.

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family – you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself – I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

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

During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend – it’s actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. ‘Is everything fine?’ This is breakfast.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

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