Karen Elson Quotes

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

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.

Puma was the best deal. To me, anybody can make your shoe. Anybody can make the best shoe for you and put the right fit in the shoe.

I think I make shoes quite okay.

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.

I would love to design my own shoe line. Women suffer too much in heels. I want to design a line of sexy platform heels that don't hurt.

There's tons of little tricks that that go into making the perfect shoe, but I think color, comfort is really important and different sizes of heels.

My family owned a gelateria business, so as a kid, I would always design ice cream cones. If you want to transform a shoe from design into a properly wearable product, however, you need technical knowledge. So I worked for four years inside a local shoe company.

I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear.

When I was in high school, I was thinking about getting ideas and making my first shoe, how it would be, and what brand it would be.

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could have his own special collection out.

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable

Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!

The main thing I worry about with the shoes I wear is comfort. What you're comfortable wearing is what you're going to play your best in.

I still love Birkenstocks. I just think they are the most comfortable things; I even wear them in winter sometimes.

When I started, I didn't have any idea of production or how things worked in footwear.

I would love to design a car. And shoes, like funky Keds maybe.

In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won't walk away from. A chair is aggressive - you want a customer to choose it from many others.

I've got the best shoe guy in the business.

You have to take into account the arc of your foot when you're buying heels.

Comfort is number one for me with shoes. I like to do a test walk in heels to make sure I won't fall or get crazy blisters.

Not all face masks are created equal.

Everybody likes new shoes! It is a new feeling, going onto the pitch, so it is great to be able to wear them straight out of the box. They are comfortable straight away and move with you. I could not do that with my old shoes. So every time I have a big match, I want new shoes straight out of the box.