Quotes by Christian Louboutin

About Christian Louboutin:

Christian Louboutin is a French footwear designer whose footwear has incorporated shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature.
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When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

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

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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.

Christian Louboutin

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 ...

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At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!

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

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I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?

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

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

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If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That's what keeps the creativity alive.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not aga...

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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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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 ...

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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.

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In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameChristian Louboutin
  • DescriptionFrench fashion designer
  • BornJanuary 7, 1964
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionDesigner