Article: Louboutin's new custom: the cobbler to the stars has launched a new venture: a made-to-order atelier.(Accessories Flash)(biography)(Biography)

Reclining like a Freudian analysand on a red divan in his Paris office, Christian Louboutin looks as if he--s prepared to spill his guts. Instead, he yawns and grumbles that last night's party left him "wiped out."

The fete in question marked the opening of "Fetish," an exhibition at the Galerie du Passage Pierre Passebon of David Lynch's photographs of women in Louboutin's towering shoes, which attracted a sophisticated Parisian crowd that included France's new first lady, Cecilia Sarkozy. There, Lynch mused on the universality of his motif. "We all have a set of fetishes," he offered. "And Christian knows a few things when it comes to shoes. You know what I ...

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