Christian Louboutin- the world of beauty

Posted by Kwong Joy
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Oct 3, 2015
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Christian Louboutin a shoes designer was entering the beauty business—and he was full of ideas, talking a mile a minute. Louboutin’s new nail-polish collection is now a thing. I sat down with Christian at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City to discuss his latest fetish Christian Louboutin Pumps .

He  decided to extend his Christian Louboutin Daf Booty empire into the world of beauty — and to start with nail polish — the move actually made some kind of sense. After all, he came up with his signature scarlet soles 20 years ago by impulsively painting one in the factory with a colleague’s red nail varnish.
He wanted his first beauty boutique to link back to those early days, both in location and in look. That meant staying in the Galerie Véro-Dodat, the slightly shabby yet ornate 19th-century covered passage in Paris where he opened his original store in the early 1990s, as well as recreating that shop’s intimate, jewel-box ambiance. He found the perfect space next door: a tiny shop that had served as the headquarters for a Christian Louboutin Wedding Shoes. But who would do it up for him? Louboutin had long admired the work of the Paris-based interior designer Pierre Yovanovitch who has worked with Hermès and the Hôtel Marignan Paris. “In Pierre’s work, there are very few details — it’s clean,” he says. “I’m used to baroque spaces with lots of objects. When I look at one of his spaces, I wonder, like a child, ‘Why do I find a space so beautiful with so little?’ Pierre is a master of that.”

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