A Good Shoe Is One That Doesn't

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.

I Was Born In Paris In The Mid-1960s, And By The Time I Was 12 I Had Started Going To The Movies By Myself. Most Of The Movies Of That Period Never Appealed To Me. I Didn't Like The 'naturalism,' The Sad Or The 'down-to-earth' Characters. What I Wanted From Film Was Fantasy, Dreams, Funny Situations, Extravagant Decor - And Beautiful Women.

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.

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.

The Core Of My Work Is Dedicated Not To Pleasing Women, But To Pleasing Men.