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God forgive me, I interviewed Christian Louboutin, while wearing a pair of sneakers. Do not feel like those Sci-Fi with, but really old and dirty ones. Louboutin is one of the best-known shoe designer in the world and officially the most prestigious, independent ratings by Company Luxury Institute, Christian Louboutin has named the as the most popular shoe brand in the world for the past three years. He is also the man that is credited or blamed, for the collection of Stylet back into fashion. Sun sneakers to meet him is a bit like Jamie Oliver to proposed that we meet for lunch at McDonald's.

But then – whaddyaknow – Louboutin turns up to his tiny office filled and stiletto-wearing trainers themselves. (Though tell me where Converse, his say, in a discreet logo on the side Christian Louboutin, which would probably come in handy should he forget his name with.)

"Their coaches are nicer than mine," I say, as we settle on the striped sofa on the wall.

"Oh no …" He drawl, in a tone that says, "Oui, oui, oui, oui, oui."

But he assured me that he does not judge women by their shoes. Well, not quite.

"I look at the face first. And when I'm in the face see, I try to see the personality and from that, I think, what kind of shoes would this girl. "

"So what would Shoe hit my face? "I ask.

He stares at me very intensely for about five seconds before he answered. "A DM boot"

Maybe he was just tired. He had flown in that morning from Dubai where he is nearing his 20th Boutique open – with another 13 planned this year – and not on level "to all" to sleep. And if it warms up and we turn the conversation away from strict business chat, he's really fun, noted as dry and then smiled softly behind. At one point I ask if, with pretty much every celebrity studded in the world, from Madonna's First Lady of France Carla Bruni, it is no one left, he would like as a customer. His eyes Rock around the office and settled finally on a pair of very high black stilettos, studded with silver spikes all around. He turns back and replied, po-faced, "The Queen of England."

supplies for a long time, perfume sales of the fashion world. Then it was jeans. Now, more than ever, it is shoes and bags, and it is no coincidence that Louboutin arrived in the 90s, when this switch began. He, Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon is the Holy Trinity of the luxury shoe market, after turn shoes from something you do on your feet on shards into fetish objects for Women helped to avoid. Louboutin is now at the top of the triangle.

Where Manolo Blahnik shoes are either smooth or bizarre, and Jimmy Choo have the clear gloss Euro Trash to tell Christian Louboutin shoes are a simple word: sex. Everything about them – from their disco styles, the aggressive thrust of the shoe bend, almost pornographic red sole, flashing Observers from the back of the lady – shouts sex.

It seems every celebrity under the sun Paparazzi by Lady Gaga with Victoria Beckham, has announced their love of the man. But Louboutin proves itself to be remarkably little interest in the international scene have celebrity. Was he Starstruck if, say, Madonna was photographed with his shoes? No, he was not. But he was a little excited when he found out that the first wife was a fan of Johnny Hallyday – "a great singer Hallyday in France is, you know. "

Louboutin also can receive the highest award recently, a shoe designer in these days "get: the shoes are in be to see the new Sex and the City movie. This is not just a big plug, but a potentially controversial, such as Manolo Blahnik shoes were such a mainstay of the TV series, that the concept of "Manolos" entered the lexicon. But Louboutin is excited? Bof.

"I think it's a good thing, because people tell me it is. I have no TV, you see, "he says with a shrug.

Any awkwardness between him and Blahnik? Another mystery shrug.

He even refused to go on the Oprah Winfrey show when she has a whole episode, how much she loves his shoes to be as close as possible to defeat America in a knight. "They filmed the first part of the show in Paris and put me outside in the cold – so of course I was sick," he says, still on the cheek which outraged. "So when they said," Come to Chicago '[where Winfrey show her films], I said, "Are you crazy I'm sick, my God!" "

Instead Louboutin prefer his hobbies: landscape design (there are often plant details on the shoes), harness (he has a swing in his studio) and occasionally to dance. He has recently released a movie about himself tap dancing to Simon Fuller's fashion Fashionaire site that has a vision of uninhibited joy (and, yes, the shoes he) is.

Is he a regular tap dancer? "Well," he says with a touch of understatement: "I have rhythm."

He has a new design of his Paris apartment for five years. "It's not that I'm a perfectionist," he says, before launching into a seven- Minutes anecdote, as he's done to make the builders redo the windows three times around the corner properly.

Above all, he works: monitoring the factories, with meetings around the world and then twice a year, he will be isolated in one of his four villas (Egypt, Syria, France, Portugal), while the new designs Collections.

When we meet, it is the first day of Paris Fashion Week, a prospect that does not flood his face with joy. "I've never been to the Part of the fashion world is interested – I just wanted to design shoes. I did not know existed Vogue, when I was growing up. Vogue, what is it? "He protested.

Just a few years, Louboutin was offered the job of designer at a major fashion label, although he did not say which. "And I was really almost insulting," he says, still it sounds. "I mean, the shoe – it is music, there is entertainment, it's healthy, there is a movement clothing -. It's a different story there are a million. Things I'd rather do before construction clothes: Director, landscaping. Designing clothes? "His face shows his opinion of it.

Louboutin was 1963 born and raised in Paris. His father was a carpenter and his mother was "definitely not a" High Heel fan. His four sisters like "cork wedges," recalls he, without fondness. "Quite the opposite of what I do now."

But set his taste in his childhood. If Louboutin was 13, he and his friends secretly go from school to Le Palace, a Paris night club, but while his buddies watched the girls on stage, he looked at her shoes. "Some the shoes that I do still inspired by the palace. – The disco look, the metal, the sparkle "

It was never about fashion or design school and instead received his education work, among other things, Charles Jourdan, Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. However, he had fired an unfortunate tendency to: "is it because I have a was terrible assistant. An assistant to help – I always wanted to do my own thing. "

He insists that he never planned a career or ambition, own company have what I do not quite buy. It is very difficult to succeed without wanting very badly, especially in the fashion industry and Louboutin, for all its Gallic Nonchalance, will play the game. He once decided to miss a flight back to Paris from America, so that he spend two hours in a department store, autographs his shoes could. "To my favorite hot housewife," Time magazine said he scribbled on a customer's shoe.

Price and Height: Today, Louboutin Shoes famous for two things. A pair of Louboutin heels can easily cost $ 700 (£ 465); boots can go up to $ 2000 (£ 1,325) and more. Also, the only be: all designer shoes appear in the price range of at least 50% over the last decade, increases Louboutin blame for the € – "Everything is getting more expensive, and bread" – That the designers simply jacking up the prices when they realized that people were willing to pay for them against.

What is the higher prices in addition to using the van Louboutin also the head of the higher heels, stilettos with which to come back into fashion, along with all the contradictions with them. Jennifer Lopez once said magazine Harper's Bazaar that Louboutin shoes, "you kill them. But they are the sexiest shoes around." How can inertia be sexy?

At this point Louboutin start with "the construction of the shoe" and "the direction of the weight and do all the usual noises people when they try to claim that that a high-heeled shoes may be comfortable talking. But the fact is, no matter what hoicked the design, the woman on her toes. The argument about whether or not high heels women is authorized to nothing and after all this time, a little tired. But Louboutin seems baffled by the opposition. When I ask if comfort is an important factor in the Design of its shoes, and he lost a bit of AHS, "It is important because a woman does not look good if she is not comfortable but I would not see it as a compliment, though. someone saw one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, this looks like a comfortable shoe, "he said with obvious contempt said Asked if there is such a thing as too high a paragraph. he replies: "It is a heel too high, to go in, of course, but who cares you do not have to walk in high heels.?."

Germaine Greer recently wrote, citing in particular Louboutin "While feminists fight was free to provide women, high heels have conquered the world."

"I have not heard this kind of idea since the 70s. Thank God that child's imagination is gone. Who said that?" He asked sharply.

Germaine Greer. "Who is that?"

A feminist science. She wrote a very famous book in 1970 … "Here you are, it is a 70's feminist. She's to keep their bases covered, "he said, interrupting the matter settled. For the defense, citing a Louboutin heel of his loving Customers Madonna – "And she's pretty independent."

to make last year signed a deal Louboutin Louboutin a special Barbie. He agreed on one condition: they would have the doll slim unbearable fat ankles.

"Did you really say they make Barbie's legs thinner?" I ask, expecting him to deny.

"Yes," he replies without blinking. "The ankle was a bit ahead and there is nothing quite as a very curved ankles. So I said to them, the one that could really give is their perfection to give a curve to her ankle. "He smiles." It's not like she's going to suffer for it. "

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