Top 150 Christian Louboutin Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.”

— Christian Louboutin

52. “A lot of men said they were jealous of me because my shoes excite women in a way they can’t.”

— Christian Louboutin

53. “I mean, the shoe – there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it’s a movement. Clothes – it’s a different story. There are a million things I’d rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.”

— Christian Louboutin

54. “If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That’s what keeps the creativity alive.”

— Christian Louboutin

55. “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. Their feet are arched.”

— Christian Louboutin

56. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

57. “Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in ‘Saturday Night Fever.’”

— Christian Louboutin

58. “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

59. “People tend to fear the ghosts in their own family. You feel these family curses and think, ‘If it happened to my father, it could happen to me.’”

— Christian Louboutin

60. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

61. “My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.”

— Christian Louboutin

62. “Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I’m flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.”

— Christian Louboutin

63. “Designing my shoes, I’m thinking timeless. Not trendy.”

— Christian Louboutin

64. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

65. “I hate the whole concept of the clog! It’s fake, it’s ugly, and it’s not even comfortable!”

— Christian Louboutin

66. “I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls – for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour – and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer.”

— Christian Louboutin

67. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

68. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

69. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

70. “I don’t follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.”

— Christian Louboutin

71. “I sort of don’t believe in trends. I know that they exist, but what is important at the end of the day is to remain independent.”

— Christian Louboutin

72. “For me there ain’t no high heel high enough.”

— Christian Louboutin

73. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

74. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

75. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

76. “Madonna is a feminist and has been doing more for the cause than all the grumpy feminists, who are giving nothing back by being grumpy.”

— Christian Louboutin

77. “There are a million things I’d rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.”

— Christian Louboutin

78. “I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!”

— Christian Louboutin

79. “I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.”

— Christian Louboutin

80. “My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.”

— Christian Louboutin

81. “One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it’s molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.”

— Christian Louboutin

82. “I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.”

— Christian Louboutin

83. “When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.”

— Christian Louboutin

84. “Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women.”

— Christian Louboutin

85. “The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.”

— Christian Louboutin

86. “I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.”

— Christian Louboutin

87. “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?”

— Christian Louboutin

88. “I am interested in all things that celebrate and enhance the female form.”

— Christian Louboutin

89. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

90. “The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones – precious stones – and say that I could do anything with precious stones.”

— Christian Louboutin

91. “I’m always taking into consideration how the shoe will look on the foot, its relation to the ankle and the leg – that’s very important. I often see shoes that seem interesting or nice until a woman puts them on. then a lot of shoes look very clunky, and nobody likes to see that.”

— Christian Louboutin

92. “I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz’s ‘All About Eve.’ ‘Mildred Pierce.’”

— Christian Louboutin

93. “There’s nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.”

— Christian Louboutin

94. “If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.”

— Christian Louboutin

95. “I don’t like conflicts. I’m not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.”

— Christian Louboutin

96. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

97. “Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.”

— Christian Louboutin

98. “At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls – for the theater!”

— Christian Louboutin

99. “I didn’t even know ‘Vogue’ existed when I was growing up.”

— Christian Louboutin

100. “I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I’m part of the fashion industry. But that’s never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.”

— Christian Louboutin