A Shoe Has So Much More To

I Have This Disease That If I Feel Good Somewhere, I... Buy A House.

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.

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.

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.

[while Designing] I'm Mixing Two Lines Of Thought Really: Me As A Designer For Women And Then Me As A Man. At The Start Of The Design Process It's The Designer For Women That Comes To The Forefront - Sketching And Revising The Silhouette. Then The Man Comes Into The Picture - And I Look At The Shoe From A Very Masculine Point Of View. Then There Is A Conflict Between The Two Sides Of Me. Sometimes The Man Wins, And Sometimes The Designer Wins.