Maintenance Is Terribly Important.

I Like The New Shoe Designers. Not All Of Them - There Are Really Bad Ones Too. But I Go To The Colleges With These Kids For Lectures, As An Honorary Professor Or Whatever, And This Chinese Girl I Like Very Much Who I Give The Award To Says To Me, "you Don't Know How Much You Inspired Me To Do Shoes." And I'm Glad That I Convey That Kind Of Desire To People When They See My Bloody Shoes.

Trends Don't Interest Me.

I'm Not Very Nostalgic, You See. I Just Don't Think Anybody Has That Kind Of Thing Anymore. By Culture, By Breeding, By Whatever, It's Not There. The Kids Today-what The Hell Are They Going To Be? I Like Young People - Yes, I Do. But When I Talk To People At The Schools, And They Say, "i Saw You On The Twit," I Don't Even Know What They Are Talking About.

You Get Two Weeks After You Do A Shoe Where You Can Test Whether It's Good Or Not - If You're Going To Like It In 20 Years. Then I Know That It's Going To Be My Shoe For A Long Time. That Doesn't Happen Very Often, But It Happens.

These Are Very Dainty And Superrefined, But Really Vile.