'I AM concerned with comfort!' Christian Louboutin defends controversial 'heels should be painful'
Just last week he sparked controversy by claiming that those who couldn't take the pain of his heels should not wear them.
But today, as he unveiled an exhibition featuring hundreds of pairs of his sought-after heels at London's Design Museum, Christian Louboutin thought it wise to backpedal slightly.
Louboutin, who began his career more than 20 years ago, hit the headlines when he called high heels 'pleasure with pain', adding, 'If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.'
But at this morning's preview, he defended the remark, saying: 'I am concerned with comfort. I know that it's important but I don't want to have this evoked in my design.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2137417/Christian-Louboutin-exhibition-Design-Museum-London-celebrates-20-years-red-soles.html#ixzz1tZTgDcSQ
I understand shoes but these are ridiculous! Women should not have to feel pain in order to be seen as "sexy" or "beautiful".
Thoughts?
= new reply since forum marked as read
he thinks he is all that. a man. dismissing women. nothing new, 
Shows like Sex in the City where women stomp around on city pavement, go dining and dancing, etc. etc., for hours, in stillettos. Maybe normal women can do that and I'm the oddball, but I just don't think so.
So much for realistic portrayals of women's lives.
I've had much attention paid to my feet with this rehab business from the 7 weeks in a leg cast.
I have bunions. Purely genetic, from my mother from her mother and who knows how far back. I have to keep explaining that I haven't worn heels since I was in my early 20s (and the highest I ever wore were under three inches and sturdy, as was the fashion at the time). I am barefoot most of the time indoors (or in thick socks and slippers in winter), and wear crocs most of the time away from home. Except now -- too worried about instability on thick soles; I'm lucky I once invested in a pair of good, very flat suede lace-up oxford types, as they're perfect for the rehab process.
My feet are extremely flexible. The ortho tech was explaining how one's Achilles tendons shorten with age (one reason my foot was kept flexed so severely inside the cast) and that this is why we see older women in low wedgie shoes rather than flats much of the time. Well, not my Achilles tendons. My good foot still flexes way past 90 degrees (and points like a ballerina, as the physiotherapist remarked).
Why do unnatural things to one's feet that will come home to roost in the form of loss of function and pain in later years?
High heels supposedly make women's calves look "shapely" for the menz. Well, if it's going to be "no pain, no gain" one way or another, get out of the heels and take up some kind of activity that builds up the calf muscles.
Btw, I broke my ankle while wearing perfectly flat loose leather boots. Sprains and metatarsal breaks have been combinations of thick/slightly platform soles and not looking where I was going (stepping on the edges of surfaces). Imagine what I could do in stilettos ...
for what I thought was a deprived childhood. 
I did keep a couple pairs, strictly for costuming purposes. And when I wear them, I am absolutely "in costume", making a very specific statement with my clothing (and shoes).
About 30 years ago, it was, I was one of the lead organizers of a big international political event that we spent the couple of months leading up to it working on full-throttle, and I lived on coffee and cigarettes and not much sleep for the last couple of weeks. I did lose a little weight ...
At a party a week later for all the people who had worked on it, I made my entrance down the couple of steps into the host's backyard. I had dyed my hair to cover the grey temples and put on lipstick and and mascara, and was wearing one of my floaty vintage dresses and some gold sandals from a thrift shop -- less than two-inch heels, but skinny heels and open toes and all.
Mr. Bigtime Lefty Organizer Lover Boy, whom I'd been working alongside for all that time, happened to be standing right there when I came in. His eyes bugged out and he hastened over to me and uttered words to the effect of how lovely I looked.
Moron, I thought.
That was the statement I was making. He just didn't know it.
I'd love to see a cross section of that 2nd pair to see what the shape and form of the insole is. Curious about the position of her foot under all that python mess.
Shoes are fun. I still think shoes are interesting and fun. Looooove my new turquoise cowboy boots. 
