Christian Louboutin high heels are meant to look elegant and high fashion, they are not designed to give women comfort in design, that is the message Christian Louboutin delivered in an interview with Grazia magazine this week.

Speaking to the fashion mag Christian says of the shoes:

“High heels are pleasure with pain … If you can’t walk in them, don’t wear them.”

The world famous designer then goes on to point out how the shoes have been successfully worn by some of the world’s top acts and their backups:

“If Tina Turner and Prince’s back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can’t tell me they are impossible to walk in.”

When asked if some sort of heel would ever be created for men so they can compete with women towering over them in a pair of Louboutin’s the designer said:

“‘Men in high heels? That’s a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help, but a man in heels is ridiculous.”

How he would go about offering an alternative to men Christian did not reveal.

Also in his interview the famed designer finally opens up about his Louboutin shoes trademark red bottom, according to the designer his first shoes arrived back from the manufacturer but they didn’t quite match his design so he used red nail polish to give them a bit of flair and the rest is of course cemented in the annals of fashion history.

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With her finger firmly on the pulse of a nation grappling with poverty and mass unemployment, Blake Lively has described the size of her Louboutin shoes collection as “embarrassing.”

The star of Gossip Girl discussed her addiction at a 20th anniversary celebration of Louboutin’s work in New York. Previously, the actress has purchased forty pairs of Louboutins at a time, and is a personal friend of the footwear designer. She gushed to People magazine:

“They are the most beautiful shoes out there. And incredibly innovative. It’s embarrassing how many pairs I have.”

Lively was joined during the evening by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Calvin Klein and Tyrese, with Blake sporting a pair of splatter-paint snakeskin stilettos.

The designer himself kept up with the spirit of mutual sucking up/back-slapping, declaring:

“Not only is [Blake] beautiful, she is very talented and she’s very smart. One of the things that is most important for women and men, at least for me, is intelligence. Through a lot of things, she has proved that she is really intelligent and she also has this natural beauty and this natural way of moving which makes her absolutely a great image.”

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, Louboutin also gazed into his crystal ball and offered his insight for shoes to come:

“A beautiful low-cut pump. Low-cut in the front and almost the colour of your skin so it can completely disappear or in black so you can wear it with different colours.”

So now you know.

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A federal district court judge in Manhattan has ruled against Christian Louboutin SA in a hard-fought case over high-end red-soled women’s shoes.

Judge Victor Marrero denied the Paris-based fashion company’s motion for a preliminary injunction that would have barred top competitor Yves Saint Laurent from selling similar shoes while Louboutin’s trademark-infringement case was litigated, Bloomberg reported.

The high-heeled drama all started back in April after YSL introduced a red suede pump with matching red sole, a unique feature that previously set Louboutin’s shoes apart from other competitors in the luxury shoe realm.

The crimson-colored YSL’s prompted a lawsuit by Louboutin, who claimed to have originated the concept of red soles in his shoes as a trademark nearly 20 years ago when he painted red nail polish on the black soles of a pair of women’s shoes.

That mattered not to Judge Marrero who said Louboutin’s ownership claim to a red sole would harm competition not only in high fashion shoes, but potentially in the markets for other fashion articles as well, putting makers of dresses, coats, bags, hats and gloves in fear of lawsuits.

“Awarding one participant in the designer shoe market a monopoly on the color red would impermissibly hinder competition among other participants,” the judge wrote, adding, “Louboutin’s claim raises the specter of fashion wars. If Louboutin owns Chinese Red for the outsole of high fashion women’s shoes, another designer can just as well stake out a claim for exclusive use of another shade of red, or indeed even Louboutin’s color, for the insole, while yet another could, like the world colonizers of eras past dividing conquered territories and markets, plant its flag on the entire heel for its Chinese Red.”

In an artistic analogy, Marrero said it would be as if Picasso had sued Monet, saying he painted his water lilies with a distinctive indigo that Picasso used on his images of water.

Following the judge’s ruling, which lawyers for Louboutin said was contrary to trademark law, Jyotin Hamid, an attorney for YSL, expressed his pleasure with the decision.

“No designer should be able to monopolize a color in fashion,” he said, also adding that his clients look forward to continuing to manufacture red soled shoes, which they have been doing since the 1970s.

Here’s to seeing red-bottom pumps at Target in the near future.

via Washington Post

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