Top 218 Quotes & Sayings by Christian Louboutin - Page 3
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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.
For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.
People say I am the king of painful shoes.
When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.
I like my customer to be fierce.
A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it's not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone's body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.
A lot of women don't like when they're sort of fat, but a fat foot is as beautiful as a skinny foot. Think of Greek statues. Look how many people love the foot of the baby! There is something super-charming about the baby foot.
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater!
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
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.
I guess, being French, I love Hollywood.
When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
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 have this disease that if I feel good somewhere, I... buy a house.
You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.
Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
I haven't yet met a woman who told me, 'I wish I had shorter legs.'
I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
I hate the whole concept of the clog! It's fake, it's ugly, and it's not even comfortable!
If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.
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.
If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.
I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.
I could not live with someone 24/7. I just never did, and I could never do.
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.
There are few plants that are ugly. It's how you use them that may not be pretty.
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.
If there is something I like, I buy it and then find somewhere for it. I buy first then I think.
If you're passionate about the world, and if you really look closely at everything around you, each thing can be transformed into a shoe, or into a part of a shoe.
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.
Boredom is a concept that I don't understand.
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?
Necessity creates everything in my life.
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.
Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.
There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.
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.
I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.
I love David Lynch's 'Mulholland Drive;' such a wonderful movie.
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.
When you do something you love, you have a passion for it. It comes naturally. Staying true to yourself and doing what you love keeps you going...everything else falls into place.
Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.
It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else
To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.
I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'
A woman tells a story with her clothes, but it's the shoe that carries her.
Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.
A woman can carry a bag, but it is the shoe that carries the woman.
The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.
A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you.
Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy.
Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing
Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right
What is sexual in a high heel is the arch of the foot, because it is exactly the position of a woman's foot when she orgasms... So putting your foot in a heel, you are putting yourself in a possibly orgasmic situation.
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