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Women Shoes Biography

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Christian Louboutin was born in 1964 in Paris. As a child, he was fascinated by ladies’ shoes and by the time he reached his teens, Louboutin was sketching shoe designs in his school books.

In 1975, whilst visiting the African and Oceanic Art Museum, Louboutin noticed a sign forbidding entry to women in stilettos to prevent damage to the wooden flooring. The sign showed a woman’s stiletto shoe with a thorn-like heel slashed with a red line and this image made an impression on the young Louboutin.

From the age of 12 Louboutin would often sneak out of school to visit the flea market of Vila do Conde, or watch Paris famous showgirls performing. Whilst watching dancers, he became convinced that women most often look at their legs in silhouette. It was this inspiration that led him to drop out of school early to pursue his passion for shoe design.

Louboutin received a small amount of training at the Academie Roederer, studying drawing and decorative arts. After travelling for a year in Egypt and India he returned to Paris and produced a design portfolio full of elaborate high heels.  Around this time he also worked as an apprentice at the Folies Bergères - the famous French music hall. This further developed his love of shoes as he said “nobody wears shoes like a dancer on stage”.  He then tutored under Charles Jourdan and freelanced at a range of illustrious ateliers including Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

In 1988, Christian Louboutin joined Roger Vivier who at that time was known as the Fabergé of Footwear and who had previously collaborated with the likes of Dior in the 1950s. Under Vivier’s teaching, Louboutin learnt the mastery of making shoes and raised his skills to a new level. Vivier was said to have invented the stiletto or spike heel which so inspired a young Louboutin. The design was named after a slim knife. Louboutin credited Vivier with teaching him the crux of shoe creation and said “the most important part of the shoe is the body and the heel. Like a good bone structure, if you get that right, the rest is makeup”.

At the end of the eighties, Louboutin reportedly turned his hand to garden design for a brief time, before launching his self-named shoe atelier in the early nineties. Christian Louboutin shoes became known for their vibrant colours and exoticism. Louboutin was pivotal in bringing stilettos back into fashion in the nineties and into the 2000s. His wish to “make a woman look sexy, beautiful, to make her legs look as long as I can” has led to towering heels of 12cm or higher. His more opulent eveningwear designs often incorporate embellishment and decoration such as feathers, exotic leathers and jewel encrusted straps.

Famously Louboutin’s trademark is the lipstick red soles of his shoes, which flash into sight when the wearer walks. Like the white flash of an animal’s tail, the red flare of a Louboutin is a striking, come hither signal which has led Louboutin to christen his creations ‘follow me shoes’.  The coloured sole is an iconic symbol of the brand - simple and utterly recognisable. This simplicity coupled with Louboutin’s ability to infuse the spirit of femininity into his shoes, has helped to create one of the most recognizable and coveted luxury shoe brands.

The king of the red-hot shoe may be famous for his sexy killer heels, however he also produces reams of elegant and feminine day and casual shoes inspired by enticing exotic locations, nature and dance. His footwear mirrors his upbringing and is a mixture of culture, art and history.

Today Christian Louboutin shoes can be found in boutiques worldwide as well as on the catwalks for young highly regarded designers such as
Roland Mouret and Rodarte.
Notable celebrity patrons have included Elizabeth Taylor, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane von Furstenberg, Kylie Minogue and Catherine Deneuve.

Christian Louboutin has established himself as one of the top shoe designers in the world. In a poll by the Daily Telegraph, Louboutins were named the most sexy heel with his classic black stiletto being the most popular. Wearing Louboutins makes a woman feel sexy with Louboutin stating his shoes are the “perfect blend of beauty and sex appeal, high enough that they slow women down and give them a sexier gait.”

I get a kick out of women's shoes--the protrusions and spikes, the high fashion toes like ship's prows and the platforms like personal podiums. Bergstein's debut book on how shoes define women offers the reader a celebrity-infused history of our relationship to footwear. The diversity of shoes reflects something more than function and personal style; our choices are inextricably laced with desire and identified with social currency.

Bergstein begins with Farragamo's humble beginnings in a small I...more
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Toni
Jun 03, 2012 Toni rated it 2 of 5 stars  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2012, fashion, history, sociology
The title and premise of this book are a little misleading. Or maybe my expectations were a little off. This was really a mini-history of shoes from the 20th century, beginning with the arrival of Salvatore Ferragamo on the scene and in America. Bergstein chooses to tell this story mainly through the tales of some iconic shoes: Dorothy's "ruby" slippers, stilettos (of course), Birkenstocks, Chuck Taylor's, etc.

While I did learn a few things (Ferragamo's history was really interesting), this fel...more
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Margaret Sankey
Aug 08, 2012 Margaret Sankey rated it 3 of 5 stars
Bergstein frames the social and popular culture history of women in the 20th century through iconic shoes--Ferragamo, Hollywood and the first mass marketed luxury brand (disclaimer--I buy Ferragamo 8.5AAAA), the ruby slippers and the Depression, wartime rationing and cork wedges, Dior and the New Look's stilettos of conspicuous consumption, Audrey Hepburn's beatnik ballet flats, hippies and Birkenstocks, disco and platform shoes, Jane Fonda's aerobic Reeboks, grunge and Doc Martens and Carrie's...more
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Christine
Jan 26, 2013 Christine rated it 1 of 5 stars
Everything said and related here is interesting on the level of a well written and well edited magazine feature. None of it belongs in a book; this is what fashion mags should be but aren't.
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Laura
Jun 18, 2012 Laura is currently reading it
I loved it. forget 50 shades of grey, shoe porn is for me.
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Elizabeth
Oct 14, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 1 of 5 stars
Only got as far as page 98. The book starts with the history of Ferragamo and I was interested in his story. I liked the tidbits of shoes in the movies and how they played an influential part in what women wore as well as setting the tone for a scene and the personality of a character. Sounds like a good book, huh? I just couldn't get past the authors opinion of women in the past being miserable and suppressed by their husbands. I admit that there was lots of that going on, but not all women wer...more
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Chelsi
Jun 25, 2012 Chelsi rated it 3 of 5 stars
I got this book from Goodreads.com advanced reader giveaways****
I was really excited to have won this book from the giveaways section on goodreads because I love to read non-fiction books on random topics. This book is all about shoes, and though every girl knows some shoe basics, I never knew so many interesting stories about shoes existed. Each chapter focused on a different time period and on a different types of shoes. Usually, the chapter included a lot of pop culture too, which I will adm...more
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Bridget
Jul 04, 2012 Bridget rated it 4 of 5 stars
Shelves: 2012-reads
I had read a review of this book, and was intrigued, so I borrowed a copy from the library. I should qualify this by saying that a) I am fascinated with the history of clothing, and b) one of the ways in which I am a stereotypical woman is that I love shoes.

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