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
girl men thinking
The designer side of me has many ideas on how the shoes or woman should look, but the man is thinking 'would I want to see my girl in those shoes?'.
men high-heels giants
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.
men drawing curvy
My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.
men shoes trying
Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.
stupid men high-heels
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.
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.
sexy witty men
There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.
beautiful fashion men
A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
men shoes seducing
Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women.
winning men views
[While designing] I'm mixing two lines of thought really: me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At the start of the design process it's the designer for women that comes to the forefront - sketching and revising the silhouette. Then the man comes into the picture - and I look at the shoe from a very masculine point of view. Then there is a conflict between the two sides of me. Sometimes the man wins, and sometimes the designer wins.
jealous men shoes
A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can't
father kids men
I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see how different they would be around one another and around men, even my father.