Celebrities who love Christian Louboutin shoes

We’d always assumed Christian Louboutin’s path to red-soled success was a smooth one. But, speaking at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s annual commencement last week, he revealed it was in fact studded with the same difficulties that many face.
After her show-stopping heels took a break for the Maleficent premiere in Los Angeles last Thursday, Angelina Jolie is once again wearing her custom Christian Louboutin heels while promoting the smash film in Shanghai on June 3.
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Paired with a long-sleeved Michael Kors black dress, the Oscar winner, 38, made a statement in the horn-inspired gold wedges that the celeb-loved shoe designer produced in black, white and red as well.
At one point he even stepped away from designing shoes to try and carve out a career in landscape gardening as he was so fed up (his partner Louis Benech is also a landscape gardener).
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“If you ask me if I felt stupid wasting time [gardening], I would say absolutely not. You need a lot of patience for a gardener; I wouldn’t give up one second of my gardening experience,” he told the congregation of graduating student, recounted by Racked.com. “You are at a wonderful age where you can [still] chance your path. Don’t decide, when you start something, that this is it. You can still decide and change things around.”
Other pearls of wisdom offered by the designer included his belief that you should disregard “preconceived ideas, like never sleep where you work and never work with friends.”
“I slept in my design studio for eight years with no showers, and I started a company with my two best friends and 23 years later, we are still the three best friends. I think that everyone should have their own words [to live by].”
So too should you eschew specific goals and instead enjoy the process: “The journey of every day, that becomes a career, that is what achievement is.”
“It’s exciting to work with a film that has such a strong aesthetic and a character as great as Maleficent,” Louboutin told Us Weekly. “I’ve been under the charm and spell of Angelina and her character.”
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Jolie first wore the eye-catching shoes in black in London at a private exhibition of costumes and props for the film on May 8. She then brought them out the next day in white for the photocall.

Christian Louboutin would rather read gardening magazines than fashion glossies

“When we talked with Nicolas Ghesquière about the extraordinary talents we would like to approach we simply went to those who are among the best in their fields,” says Delphine Arnault, executive vice President of Louis Vuitton, who came up with the idea alongside Ghesquière.
She added: “We were interested in people who work with their minds and their hands. I thought it was so interesting – and fun! – to have all of these different points of view on the Monogram. It is inspiring to see how they envision things, to see their perspectives. This is a group of geniuses.”
The monogram was created in 1896 by Georges Vuitton as a tribute to his late father Louis, who had died four years previously, and was considered revolutionary in its time.
The house has previously conceived collaborations with artist Yayoi Kusama, film director Sofia Coppola, Takashi Murakami and Stephen Sprouse, but it is the first time that a group of creatives have come together under one project.
EN Fashion – Christian Louboutin would rather read gardening magazines than fashion glossies.
The French footwear designer has become known for his gorgeous shoes with the iconic red sole. Despite dressing the feet of some of Hollywood’s hottest stars, his reading material is anything but glamorous.
“To be truly honest, not so often,” he told designboom.com when asked if he reads fashion or design publications.
“I have a bit of a weakness for the American Vanity Fair but my bible is Gardens Illustrated, which I look through every month – it’s a very, very good magazine.”
Christian may specialise in shoes, but he also has his eye on clothing trends. He revealed the things he likes to see while out and about and the items he wouldn’t be caught dead in.
“Context is everything. I prefer girls to wear dresses because I like how dresses influence a woman’s body language. I also love skirts; one of my favourite pieces of clothing is the pencil skirt because it obliges the wearer to have a pretty attitude. I like anything that shows a woman’s legs because I love to see her skin and how she walks,” he explained.
“[I avoid] anything baggy – that’s never been my thing. I cringe at the thought of something that I did as a teenager and that many people still do today, which is to wear laced-up shoes without socks. I have to admit another thing: I hate ankle socks. I have a big issue with them!”
The 51-year-old designer added that he would describe his style as “flirty” and that he has always been very interested in detail when creating.
When Christian designs, he always has both sexes in mind.
“Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women,” he revealed.
“I’m mixing two lines of thought really; me as a designer for women and then me as a man. At the start of the design process, it’s the designer for women that comes to the fore – sketching and revising the silhouette. Then the man comes into the picture – and I look at the shoe from a very masculine point of view. Then there is a conflict between the two sides of me. Sometimes the man wins and sometimes the designer wins.”

The 39-year-old actress sported custom Christian Louboutin wedges inspired by the movie

Angelina Jolie wore a special pair of heels earlier this week to promote Maleficent in Shanghai.
The 39-year-old actress sported custom Christian Louboutin wedges inspired by the movie. The shoes feature a pointed toe with gold detail, a sheer nude body and a gold wedge high heel in the shape of a thorn.

The famed French footwear maven designed four pairs of Maleficent heels for the actress. Jolie wore a black pair and a white pair earlier in London, and a red pair has yet to be revealed.

“It’s exciting to work with a film that has such a strong aesthetic and a character as great as Maleficent,” the designer told Us Weekly. “I’ve been under the charm and spell of Angelina and her character.”

Maleficent was released in the U.S. on May 30. The movie earned $70 million at the box office its opening weekend.

Now we love a flash of the Christian Louboutin red sole as much as the next girl, but the designer’s new AW14 lookbook is a whole new level of gruesomeness.

louboutin aw14 lookbook with severed limbs – heeled trainers – shopping bag – handbag
© Christian Louboutin

The pictures shows the AW14 collection as modelled by severed legs stashed in gift boxes in a dark hotel room. All very film noir.

The designer heels are lovely as per and include a mix of sexy black boots, strappy flower sandals and heeled trainers.

But well, the prettiness of the heels doesn’t do much to deter from the creepiness of it all.

louboutin aw14 lookbook with severed limbs – black boots – shopping bag – handbag
© Christian Louboutin

Perhaps it’s a way of saying the designer shoes will cost women an arm and a leg (or two)? We’re sure there’s a metaphor in there somewhere.