Hong Kong, April 2 -- Super-high heels can free women, says legendary French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, who insists that wearing his towering six-inch stilettos is a "form of liberty".

While some feminists see vertiginous heels as sexual enslavement, Louboutin believes the opposite - even if it means women have to walk slowly and carefully in his iconic red-soled creations.

"Women do not want to give up wearing high heels," said the designer before "The Exhibitionist", a retrospective of his 30-year career, opens in a Paris museum.

French shoe designer Christian Louboutin poses during a photo session at the Palais de la Porte Doree in Paris (Photo credit: Tonje Thoresen for AFP)

While Louboutin also makes trainers and flat sho...