The New Yorker has an excellent article by Lauren Collins on Christian Louboutin in the March 28, 2011, issue–an issue that features a gorgeous cover. The entire article is worth reading, but here are two quotes that made it into my circle-and-rip-the-page-out category:

Louboutin, however, is not sympathetic to complaints about the deleterious effects of high heels on locomotion. He told me a story about a client who, having bought her first pair of his heels, was forced to slacken the pace of her morning walk. “She began to notice the little details of her neighborhood for the first time,” he said, proudly.

This is a different and more positive spin to the high-heels-are-painful line of thinking I make, which is that if you are walking or on your feet long enough that you feel pain, you are dating the wrong guy.

Also:

“When a woman buys a pair of shoes, she never looks at the shoe,” Louboutin said. “She stands up and looks in the mirror, she looks at the breast, the ass, from the front, from the side, blah blah blah. if she likes herself, then she considers the shoe.”