My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has....

“ My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.' And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life. ”

Christian Louboutin