I Am More Feminist Than Feminists.

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.

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.

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.

High Heels Are Pleasure With Pain.

[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.