Christian Louboutin

Although Christian Louboutin was born in a working class neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, his eyes were always directed to more glamorous places, the kind of place where women light up their cigarettes lighters covered in diamonds and where your shoes may well be confused with jewelry. So it is not uncommon that once had the opportunity to tear the big city and got, at age 15, a job as assistant to the Follies Bergere dancers. It was there in that magical world and women, where her passion for designing shoes and took the first steps of a career that today, it has become one of the world's leading creators.

His client list is long, including the Princess Olga of Greece, Nicole Kidman, Cameron Diaz, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie and Gwen Stefani. His legendary mod-els sole its striking red paint-brand-inevitably seduce the most elegant women of the planet that are thrown at his feet with the same enthusiasm as it is released to them.

Louboutin, he told during a short pass from Miami to New York, is perfectly happy with the extent of their success and, unlike many other di-senators, has no intention of launching perfumes or lines of ready-to-wear. That lets you concentrate on your beloved shoes and, above all, keep your freedom to travel, meet constantly with their friends or, as he often does, cross the Nile on board his yacht, the "Dahabibi" which keeps anchored near their home in Luxor.

Spanish Ocean Drive: How did the Follies Bergere?
Christian Louboutin: When I was 12, a friend of my family was chosen to oversee a music magazine in the Follies. So the company gave him a videotape with highlights from the show in Paris, Vienna, Cairo ... I saw that documentary and I was enchanted! It was like watching an old Hollywood comedy, but a Hollywood that no longer existed. Also, I found it interesting that American musicals, because when one lives in Paris, is not thinking in Hollywood. Dreamed of doing something in my country, and the Follies Bergere, the Moulin Rouge and Paradis Latin were the nearest him.