Using red calfskin and black patent leather, Louboutin designed the eponymous Toro, meant to resemble a bull. And while he doesn’t mind taking animals as inspiration, he’s not a fan of shoes that conjure rural France. “Shoes have specific sounds, and I don’t like the sound of clogs,” he says, making a plonk, plonk, plonk sound. “It [creates] the sound, like, of a farm animal or a donkey.”