Top 150 Christian Louboutin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right.”

— Christian Louboutin

2. “A shoe is not only a design, but it’s a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you’re going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.”

— Christian Louboutin

3. “Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.”

— Christian Louboutin

4. “A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.”

— Christian Louboutin

5. “High heels are pleasure with pain.”

— Christian Louboutin

6. “I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.”

— Christian Louboutin

7. “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 against them, but comfort is not my focus.”

— Christian Louboutin

8. “Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.”

— Christian Louboutin

9. “You need to believe in yourself and what you do. Be tenacious and genuine.”

— Christian Louboutin

10. “The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don’t have.”

— Christian Louboutin

11. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

12. “There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels.”

— Christian Louboutin

13. “I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, ‘Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!’”

— Christian Louboutin

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

— Christian Louboutin

15. “Boredom is a concept that I don’t understand.”

— Christian Louboutin

16. “I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.”

— Christian Louboutin

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

— Christian Louboutin

18. “People are proud of their tattoos. It’s like a modern coat of arms.”

— Christian Louboutin

19. “The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.”

— Christian Louboutin

20. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

21. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

22. “Beauty is all about form; proportions and the relationships between one line and another.”

— Christian Louboutin

23. “These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.”

— Christian Louboutin

24. “My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant.”

— Christian Louboutin

25. “Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.”

— Christian Louboutin

26. “One moves more slowly in heels. Walking fast is neither sexy nor engaging. Nobody notices the people who race around. If you’re walking in heels, you’ve got time. It’s much more attractive.”

— Christian Louboutin

27. “I’m very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I’m really concentrated.”

— Christian Louboutin

28. “When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn’t really looking at her shoes – she’s looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.”

— Christian Louboutin

29. “What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn’t extreme anymore. When I started, I remember people saying, ‘Oh my God, I can’t walk in that!’ It was like, three inches – they look like kitten heels now.”

— Christian Louboutin

30. “The red sole was born from red nail polish. I am giving back to beauty what the shoes took from the nails many years ago.”

— Christian Louboutin

31. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

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

— Christian Louboutin

33. “I hate the whole concept of comfort!”

— Christian Louboutin

34. “I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince’s back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can’t tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can’t walk in them, don’t wear them.”

— Christian Louboutin

35. “Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn’t swirl around you.”

— Christian Louboutin

36. “Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.”

— Christian Louboutin

37. “Even if you don’t like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn’t like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.”

— Christian Louboutin

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

— Christian Louboutin

39. “To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.”

— Christian Louboutin

40. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

41. “Don’t reject a shoe because you can’t run in it. It’s OK not to run.”

— Christian Louboutin

42. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

43. “In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work – it is part of the French privilege.”

— Christian Louboutin

44. “Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!”

— Christian Louboutin

45. “I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine. These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time.”

— Christian Louboutin

46. “I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It’s the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.”

— Christian Louboutin

47. “The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.”

— Christian Louboutin

48. “A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It’s like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask – it is the same with shoes.”

— Christian Louboutin

49. “I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.”

— Christian Louboutin

50. “I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, ‘Cabaret.’”

— Christian Louboutin