Christian Louboutin: Let Them Drink Champagne
Christian Louboutin. From PatrickMcMullan.com. “I was obliged to have a bath of champagne,” Christian Louboutin said. “And I really didn’t like it. It was very cold, so it’s not so nice. But it’s also a ritual—a ritual I do not understand. It was freezing.” The pedagogue of pricey scarlet-soled pumps had folded himself into the corner of an overstuffed damask sofa yesterday in a suite on the 14th floor of the Plaza hotel, in New York City. Between sips from a glass of water, Louboutin, who was wearing a windowpane-pattern suit over a striped dress shirt, toasted to his luxe liaison with champagne-maker Piper Heidsieck—a collaboration called “Le Rituel.” Louboutin, 45, said he was attracted to the project because of the opportunity to create an object—a crystal flute in the shape of a stiletto. It accompanies a bottle of bubbly in a box that sells for $500. “So the [most fun] part for me was to really design the shoe, dedicated not to be worn once, but dedicated to something else, which you would drink out of,” said the designer, whose sun-kissed complexion resembled the camel-colored scarf loosely slung about his neck. The notion of drinking from footwear immediately reminded Louboutin of Russian tourists in 19th-century Paris, who would drink vodka out of ballerina slippers. He decided to concentrate on a Cinderella theme, not “dirty old Russian guys in the 19th century.”
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