Christian Louboutin - the Man and those High Heels!

Christian Louboutin is a French couture shoe designer. He developed his first passion for shoes in his early teens, when he was often seen sketching different designs. Unfortunately, he frequently did this during class, ignoring his school teacher’s pleas for him to pay attention!

Later, as he grew up, he was attracted by the wild rebelliousness of punk music. So, it is not surprising that he followed the punk scene, and from that no doubt has stemmed much of the super-styled chic originality of his design style.

He first came to “fame” when he appeared in films. He had a part in the 1979 cult classic, and strangely titled, “Race d'ep and the Homosexual Century”, and he became known outside France from that movie, because it appealed to an English-speaking fan base.

It is hardly necessary to say that he was attracted to glamour, froma  young age, and the Folies Bergères fascinated him. Cabaret has always been the trade mark of that famous establishment, resulting in his first work-experience, in which he started out by helping the entertainers in their dressing rooms, before and after performances.

In the late 1980s, he diverted his career from fashion to end up being a landscape gardener, and in that period he also became a contributor to "Style", however, he must have missed his previous passion for working in the design of footwear products, so at that time he also set up his present firm. The date was 1991.

Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol became friends as he wrked his way into the Paris party scene, of the day, in this period.

Louboutin's artistic training was quite short but it did include drawing and course content in the decorative arts, during his attendance at the Académie d'Art Roederer. Louboutin has created ladies's shoes for Chanel, and Yves St Laurent, as well as Maud Frizon.

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With funds from two backers, he opened a Paris shoe salon in that year, with Princess Caroline of Monaco as his first customer. She matched the shop eventually when a fashion reporter existed, as well as the journalist's subsequent magazine of Princess' comments helped greatly to boost Louboutin's renown. Clients such as Diane von Furstenberg and also Catherine.

Louboutin has topped the High-end Institute's yearly Deluxe Brand Standing Index (LBSI) for 3 years; the brand's offerings were declared one of the most Distinguished Ladies's Shoes in 2007, 2008, as well as 2009.

In Autumn 2009, Christian Louboutin promoted his renowned four different styles, a front lacing mid-thigh size with toned heel, a crotch high, skin tight boot with concealed zip system, a chunky mid upper leg boot (Contente), and also a beefy platform mid-upper leg boot.

he was on the up-and-up and by 2011, Louboutin had became one of the most searched-for footwear brands online.

Along with one high heeled thigh boot featuring a flexible cuff simply over the knee, and also 2 pairs of standard over-the-knee boots in their couture line, another well known name in this niche, Jimmy Choo was also doing very well with his minimal edition. This included a mid-thigh black natural leather boot with a four inch heel, so these two shoe designers have really carved themselves out a great reputation.

We think that Christian Louboutin's Pigalle pumps, have proven really attractive to females. Both the charming craftsmanship, and that combined with also highly fashionable design, have actually brought in a whole lot of folks's interest. In a word, individuals really do like his footwear range.

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In fact they like them so much that Christian Louboutin shoes once bought tend to get worn all the time by their owners. Their owners, say they wear them everywhere! This suggests that once they have bought them, they cannot take them off!

212box is company which has a long association with the Christian Louboutin shoe range. It has been developing high design value boutiques for Christian Louboutin for more than 10 years. Since the start of their collaboration, 212box has actually teamed up with his company to open almost 50 amazing Louboutin boutiques worldwide.

Our verdict is that his shoes can be so high heeled that they can cause their owners' foot injuries. But, of all the high-heeled shoes on the market, it has to be said that the one most worth bearing the pain for would be a Christian Louboutin shoe.

They look well-tailored and also give their wearers intended additional height which accentuates the good looks of their wearers. The owners of these shoes also seldom shrink from wearing them with eye-turning tights, or skinny skirts so that the whole shoe is highly visible. Likewise, the stunning leather quality, is flexible as well as smart and traditional enough for wearing these shoes to a huge range of events. Each fashion season's colours are also featured within the range, meaning that it is always easy to find the right shoe colour to combine beautifully with the latest high-fashion outfits.

Obviously, it is not simply personalities of the likes of Madonna, Victoria Beckham, and SJP that adore the stilettos created by Christian Louboutin, and his fellow shoe designers, such as Manolo Blahanik, Jimmy Choo, Gwen Stefani, and also various other high-fashion branded makers, that make these shoes so sought after. There is one thing above all about all of these, that we all must remember, and it is the high cost. If you have the money to spend, it is wonderful to own such shoes, but you would need to be extremely affluent to afford them.

Attitudes to shoes like this have changed as well. Before the start of this century, fetish type high-thigh boots had been differentiated strongly from fashion-style boots, by being much more extreme in numerous dimensions, specifically the height of the heels, as well as platform elevation.

In the later part of the 2000s, it became quite hard for the un-initiated to tell the difference (apart from the quality) between fashion shoes and fetish versions. This trend has continued to change the boundary between the two as couture developers, specifically Christian Louboutin, ever since he started to experiment with ever-more fantastically dramatic designs, in his shoe range.

Consequently, the distinction in between the two now is a lot more about the materials utilized, rather than anything else. To be more specific, fetish upper leg boots tend to be built of polyurethane (PU), or vinyl (frequently incorrectly described as patent leather), not leather. 

Furthermore, the ordinary fetish styled high heel boots, are typically made in China and also cost very little. For instance, we found that an inexpensive line of affordable fetish thigh boots is offered under the brand "Pleaser".

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