On the 30th anniversary of his trademark crimson soles, Christian Louboutin chronicles the beginning of his brand’s colour journey.
. And at the heart of Louboutin’s success is the red sole, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
But before all that, Louboutin was simply a young boy in the ’70s trying to survive living with his parents and three sisters in Paris. “I was the male Cinderella,” he jokes. “I love them, but they were my ugly stepsisters.” Don’t misunderstand him — they are technically his half-siblings; Louboutin found out later in life that his biological father was Egyptian . This is just how Louboutin talks: He loves a dramatic statement.
Like calling his sisters “witches” when he explains how, in lieu of babysitting, they used to drop him off at the Museum of African and Oceanic Arts . It was there that he spotted a drawing of a spiky stiletto from the ’50s that changed his life. “Looking at it, I didn’t understand what it was because I was used to women wearing platforms,” he recalls. “But it made me understand that basically everything starts with a sketch; you can draw your own universe and create things that don’t exist.
When asked if he still has the historic bottle, Louboutin is quick to say no. “I never thought it would become something important to me,” he says. “In the beginning, I planned to change the colour of the sole every season. When I drew the red, winter was coming, so I also considered using green to have Christmas colours. Then I thought, ‘If you don’t like colours, you definitely don’t like green, orange, yellow, purple or whatever. But you will still like red.
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