Top 150 Christian Louboutin Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When you sketch a shoe but don’t have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.”

— Christian Louboutin

102. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

103. “I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.”

— Christian Louboutin

104. “You have two categories of Shoes, Shoes which are dressing a woman or Shoes which are undressing a Woman.”

— Christian Louboutin

105. “A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.”

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106. “Breakfast is a peaceful moment for me, so I never have the radio on, no music, no noise around. The only noise that is permitted is people’s voices. It’s a way for me to wake up without too much of a high speed feeling.”

— Christian Louboutin

107. “A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.”

— Christian Louboutin

108. “I love David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive;’ such a wonderful movie.”

— Christian Louboutin

109. “A good shoe is one that doesn’t dress you but undresses you.”

— Christian Louboutin

110. “Be completely true to yourself and you’ll be happy.”

— Christian Louboutin

111. “My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it’s really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.”

— Christian Louboutin

112. “I mean, the shoe – there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it’s a movement.”

— Christian Louboutin

113. “I’ll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.”

— Christian Louboutin

114. “I’d already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist?”

— Christian Louboutin

115. “The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.”

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116. “If I’m in Italy, I’m going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don’t drink tea in Italy.”

— Christian Louboutin

117. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

118. “It’s a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else.”

— Christian Louboutin

119. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

120. “Passage Vero-Dodat – I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!”

— Christian Louboutin

121. “I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That’s about it.”

— Christian Louboutin

122. “A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it’s not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone’s body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest.”

— Christian Louboutin

123. “I’m a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.”

— Christian Louboutin

124. “To me, the word ‘decadent’ is so difficult to use; it’s a very sensitive word, in a way.”

— Christian Louboutin

125. “There are few plants that are ugly. It’s how you use them that may not be pretty.”

— Christian Louboutin

126. “I don’t give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I’m only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.”

— Christian Louboutin

127. “A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.”

— Christian Louboutin

128. “The thing I always try to remember is that feet are attached to the leg, and that you must prolong the silhouette. The shoe elongates the leg and does it discreetly. The goal is to get people to look at a woman’s legs. It’s all about the leg. No, it’s not about the leg. It’s about the woman.”

— Christian Louboutin

129. “I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.”

— Christian Louboutin

130. “Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you’re missing.”

— Christian Louboutin

131. “I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.”

— Christian Louboutin

132. “I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention – an extravagance. They’re far from natural, but it’s the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.”

— Christian Louboutin

133. “When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can’t go to the loo, that’s where I draw the line!”

— Christian Louboutin

134. “Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.”

— Christian Louboutin

135. “During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend – it’s actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. ‘Is everything fine?’ This is breakfast.”

— Christian Louboutin

136. “I’m really not a fascist. Everyone wears what they feel great in, or comfortable with. It’s a beautiful day, you have an armless shirt: it goes with flip-flops.”

— Christian Louboutin

137. “Fashion isn’t interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It’s like voodoo; we don’t want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I’m very easygoing – and it shows in my work.”

— Christian Louboutin

138. “I don’t repeat that many styles if I can help, although some have become classics. I try not to repeat. I’d rather surprise people.”

— Christian Louboutin

139. “If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.”

— Christian Louboutin

140. “My job is designing shoes. It’s work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.”

— Christian Louboutin

141. “I haven’t yet met a woman who told me, ‘I wish I had shorter legs.’”

— Christian Louboutin

142. “I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.”

— Christian Louboutin

143. “Everyone wears what they feel great in or comfortable with.”

— Christian Louboutin

144. “I am very much into voices. I would say I’m a fan of voices, not of sound. I’m a fan of singers, not of bands.”

— Christian Louboutin

145. “The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.”

— Christian Louboutin

146. “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.”

— Christian Louboutin

147. “Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.”

— Christian Louboutin

148. “I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family – you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself – I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.”

— Christian Louboutin

149. “I like my customer to be fierce.”

— Christian Louboutin

150. “Fashion isn’t interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.”

— Christian Louboutin