Christian Louboutin
Christian Louboutin
Christian Louboutinis a French luxury footwear and fashion designer whose footwear has incorporated shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth7 January 1963
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
way use sensitive
To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
men dedicated core
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.
character men shoes
Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.
men talking shoes
I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
paris trying impossible
In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.
thinking years faithful
I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner.
shoes trying naked
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.
beautiful hate believe
I would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!' That's not what I want to project. But I'm not a sadist. I don't believe suffering makes you beautiful. But comfort is not part of my creative process.
fashion thinking giving
I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
children design today
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.
one-line lines proportion
Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.
depressing alcohol feelings
'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.
mother memories years
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.
design gone likes
I've always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed.