My Year in Paris with Christian Louboutin

Born in 1963, shoe star Christian Louboutin has dedicated his life to creating Christian Louboutin the beautiful, sculpted and sexy heels worn by everyone from Princess Caroline of Monaco to Cameron Diaz. His obsession with shoes began as a child when, during a visit to a local museum, he saw a sign with a high heel in profile and a red cross through it to indicate that wearing stilettos on the mosaic floors was not permitted. That idea of shoes incorporating something illicit or forbidden is something which has remained in his work. To him a peep-toe shoe is ultra provocative,wow gold for revealing what he describes as the "second décolleté". "A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you," he explains. He found his influences at the tender age of 14, during the Seventies, in Paris Music Hall revues. Intoxicated by the glitz and glamour of the Moulin Rouge he soon stopped going to school altogether and set his heart on designing shoes for showgirls.At 16 hed show up at the Folies Bergere with drawings ed hardy Shoes of shoes for all the dancers. "For a showgirl, shoes are very important," he says. "They provide them with a stability. They need to be beautiful and sexy but not steal the limelight." Fast forward to the Noughties and he is still entranced by showgirl glamour, custom-making footwear for burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese.After being named the mini-fashion icon's godfather, Christian caused a bit of tiff when he pointed out the chub on her centimeter-sized feet. We get that the red-sole-master has a bit of a foot fetish, but we're hoping he takes it easy when filing down her cankles.
After all, it seems that Christian and Barbie are having UGG sort of a thing as demonstrated in these images from their book "My Year in Paris with Christian Louboutin." The duo shops together, lounges together, and breaks into buildings together in matching catsuits and spiked shoes. They're a strange couple—there's no denying that—and judging from the look on Christian's face as he spots Barbie cavorting with the better-coiffed Ken, Barbie might have a little more to worry about than her ankle issueair jordans .And then five minutes after you get off the phone with the butcher, who informs you that you cannot order the 23-pound goose, so you’ll need three smaller birds,Jeannie calls back. “Mom,” she says, “Ki’x'il’ko says its okay to have a turkeychina travel service . She looked up the word. It’s ostrich that’s supposed to be sacred to her people.Luckily, you were able to call the butcher back and cancel the flock of geese.And now, on Tuesday, with two days to go, you are frazzled and distracted from your work. And yet you are also filled with pride that everyone would consider your home and your family as being the good place to celebrate this important holiday.