The Christian Louboutin Review
21.05.12
C.L.: Absolutely. I can’t speak for other designers but I’m pretty sure that everyone designing shoes on a professional level has this nightmare arriving. I remember doing shoes for Tina Turner and bringing them to Madison Square Garden for her show, and when the show opened all I could see was scaffolding on the stage, and I thought, Oh, my god, she’s going to climb on the scaffolding and jump from the scaffolding. I was paralyzed; I couldn’t enjoy the show as I was so worried about her breaking her neck. I knew the height of the heel. You just don’t want this to happen. At the same time, it’s almost comical because you have the feeling that people are just [praying] that it will happen to you, for the heel to break, so I thought with this tableau it would be funny to go, “claaak,” and then the shoe breaks, and everybody will be there thinking, “Oh, my god, he must be feeling awful,” and then they all break, and it becomes
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