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Article: The Sole of Sexiness.(shoe designer Christian Louboutin )
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- February 24, 2003
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Jennifer Lopez drapes languidly across the December cover of Harper's Bazaar tacked to the bulletin board in Christian Louboutin's Paris headquarters, kicking up her scarlet-soled silver strap sandals. "She looks so great there, doesn't she?" asks the 39-year-old French shoe designer. "She's by far the best." The feeling is mutual. Louboutin's towering creations, Lopez says, are her "biggest weakness." Her current favorite: black suede pumps with a white bow and spike heel. "They kill you," she told Bazaar. "But they are the sexiest shoes ever."
No one will ever mistake them for sensible. With his witty, wicked designs made of Charvet tie fabric, clear plastic ...