Dictator Of Fashion: The Best Footwear Designer

Sunday, February 21, 2010

The Best Footwear Designer

"Shoes are more than just an accessory; they are an extension of a woman."

Christian Louboutin

About three years ago (when I began to interested in the famous brands) I leafed my favourite newspaper and I sighted something beautiful... Christian Louboutin shoes! From this moment I fell in love with his shoes...

Christian Louboutin (born January 7, 1964, France) is a footwear designer, who launched his line of high-end

women's shoes in France, 1991.

Christian Louboutin was born and brought up in Paris’s 12th arrondissement. In 1975 in the African and Oceanic art Museum he saw a drawing: a woman’s shoe with a sharp heel, slashed-out with a red line. From 1980 to 1986 Louboutin got his first job at the Folies Bergeres, the famous French Music Hall. Later he worked at world-famed fashion houses, for example Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Maud Frizon. He turned to garden design in 1989. The year 1992 was maybe one of the most important period in his life: he created the Christian Louboutin brand and opened his first boutique in Paris. His success reached New York, so Louboutin opened his first boutique in this city, too. For Jean-Paul Gaultier, Chloé, Azzaro, Diane Von Furstenberg, Victor & Rolf, Givenchy and Lanvin, Louboutin started to contribute for couture and ready-to-wear seasons in 1995. In 1996 in appreciation of his activity, he received a FFANY Award from the International Fashion Group. In 2002, at Yves Saint Laurent’s farewell haute-couture show, Louboutin created a shoe for the finale. Referred to as « Christian Louboutin for Yves Saint Laurent Haute Couture 1962-2002», it marked the only time that Saint Laurent associated his name with another designer. 2007 – Louboutin collaborated with director David Lynch on the exhibition « Fetish », which showed sexy one-off objects: fetishist shoes, photographed by Lynch. In 2008, New York’s Fashion Institue of Technology payed a tribute to Louboutin, mounting an important retrospective of his work. Later that year, Louboutin was the Star Honoree of the Fashion Group International as well as received a second FFANY Award.

Today, he is one of the most popular shoe designer - mainly in the elites of Hollywood. Hundreds of celebrities wear his shoes, like Christina Aguilera, Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham, Beyonce, Jessica Biel, Jessica Alba, Hayden Panettiere, Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, Britney Spears, Anne Hathaway Sarah Michelle Gellar and so on. This brand can be found in twelve eponymous boutiques, 46 countries and in world famous department stores like Sak’s, Nieman-Marcus, Barney’s, Harvey Nichol’s, Bergdorf-Goodman, Joyce, Jeffrey’s… Louboutin also continues to create shoes for young and talented designers such as Rodarte and Roland Mouret.