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Christian Louboutin's Signature Shoe Has Made Him an Icon
Even Barbie dolls have their own custom mini-sized Louboutins.
This month, Louboutin celebrates his 20th anniversary with a new self-titled book, published by Rizzoli. It's an ode to his outrageous shoes. His next project -- a line of red-soled shoes for men,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is due out next spring.
Christian Louboutin at his atelier. Credit: ABC News
This 47-year-old sole man,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who practices the trapeze and rides around Paris on a bright red Vespa scooter, can often be found at his atelier, where his famed shoes are designed and handmade. He makes no apologies for those sky-high prices either -- Louboutins can sell from $495 and up, with crystal-encrusted pair costing $6,000.
"I would say that a good shoe is exactly like a good wine," Louboutin said. "These shoes are going to stay and last for a long time."
While fashion overrides comfort for Louboutin -- many of his shoes are seven-inch high heels -- the designer says he has a very specific customer in mind when he sketches a shoe.
"It's sort of you know it's a sort of expression. I like my customer to be fierce," he said.
This fashion icon said that his obsession with high-heeled shoes started on a visit to a Paris museum in 1976,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. "It was a forbidden sketch."
From then on, the young designer started sketching shoes any chance he got, including during his studies. He was expelled from school at age 16.
"I was always shouted at by my teacher because I would draw straight on the table in the school,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said.
He left home, studying design by day and spending his nights as a freelance shoe designer in Paris, making shoes for burlesque show girls and working with shoe designer Charles Jourdan before starting his own company in 1989.
Then, three years later, the prototype of a shoe he created came in, but seemed to be lacking something.
"I had a girl working with me, trying on the shoes," Louboutin said. "So when she was not trying on shoes, she sort of had nothing to do,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so she was sort of waiting, and, so she was doing her nails, at that time. and I thought, why, this black has to be the red! So I grabbed her nail polish,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and painted the soles."
It was then that his signature red sole was born. Today, he sells more than 650,000 pairs a year. For some, money is no object. Louboutin said one customer commissioned him to make a shoe for his wife with rubies all over the sole.
"I said, 'well, but, you know, once you have the weight of the person, you realize that it's going to pop off,' the designer explained. "'He said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there won't be any weight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and it will not be worn,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I tell you,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it will not be worn in that, um, kind of, it will only be worn in a horizontal way.'"
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