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I Have No Problem With The Idea Of Comfort, But It Is Not An Important Thing Aesthetically. If You Look At A Shoe And Immediately Say It Looks Very Comfortable, In Terms Of Design, It Is Not Going To Excite Me. Of Course, I Am Not Putting Nails In My Shoes To Ensure Everybody Is In Pain, But A Heel Is Not A Pair Of Slippers And Never Will Be.

I Think I Have A Part Of Myself Which Is A Woman. When Girls Are Together, They Speak Completely Differently Than When There Is A Guy Around. But, With Me, They Don't See This Masculine Thing Stopping Them, And There Is Not This Boundary.

I Never Wanted To Work In Fashion. At Age 12 Or 13, I Wanted To Design For Showgirls - For The Theater! And I Was Crazy For The Hollywood Of The 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They Were My Idea Of Glamour - And Sylvie Vartan, The French Singer.

Madonna Is A Feminist And Has Been Doing More For The Cause Than All The Grumpy Feminists, Who Are Giving Nothing Back By Being Grumpy.

People Say I Am The King Of Painful Shoes. I Don't Want To Create Painful Shoes, But It Is Not My Job To Create Something Comfortable. I Try To Make High Heels As Comfortable As They Can Be, But My Priority Is Design, Beauty And Sexiness. I'm Not Against Them, But Comfort Is Not My Focus.