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
father views splinters
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.
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.
cannot core dedicated men pleasing red resist women work
The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men. Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.
work
I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.
bad liked
I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.
love proud
I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
country great history incredible serene
Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.
You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.
people
People say I am the king of painful shoes.
abandoning concept love people
I hate the whole concept of comfort! It's like when people say: 'Well we're not really in love but we're in a comfortable relationship.' You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.
If there is something I like, I buy it and then find somewhere for it. I buy first then I think.
good women
Women like my shoes because they look good on them, not because they look good on the rack.
country store
When I'm doing a store in a country, I always like to consider the concept of the country and the city.
man people red
Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.