My interest in Los Angeles.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I never let it go.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 242 →My ability to stress myself out.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2017 source ↗
John Malkovich
American actor
How long do we have?
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
Craig Charles
English actor
Cowardice. There are so many issues that I would like to express opinions about but I’m too scared to stick my head above the parapet because of the social media pile-on.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗
More from Christian Louboutin
View profile →Weirdly enough, in Portugal during confinement.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗
Losing my virginity.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗
A picnic in my garden in Kerdalo, Brittany.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 September 2021 source ↗
Intolerance, which is never far from stupidity.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗
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