#ed

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

#after #away #became #before #company

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

#birds #cabaret #colors #fish #i

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

#dress #i #i am #know #like

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

#book #could #designer #dirty #doctor

I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.' 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

#certainly #comfortable #compliment #heel #heels

When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family. ↗

— Lance Loud

#family #friends #grown #link #out

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. ↗

— Lance Loud

#experienced #happen #i #perhaps #something

There's nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child. There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#dream #i #liked #nothing #period

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

#anymore #called #definitely #extreme #god

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. ↗

— Lance Loud

#class #coming #degrees #difficulty #geography