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Showgirls of all kinds--from Tina Turner to Nicole Kidman--are still an inspiration for Louboutin, 44, whose instantly recognizable red-soled stilettos have become de rigueur on the red carpet and among Hollywood's A-list crowd. "He is the foremost shoe designer in the world," says Valerie Steele, director of the museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where his designs were the subject of a recent retrospective, "Sole Desire...
...solicitous of his less famous customers. At a recent personal appearance at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City, he canceled his flight back to Paris in order to spend another two hours signing shoes. For a woman who confessed that she was "just a housewife," Louboutin signed the sole, TO MY FAVORITE HOT HOUSEWIFE. A blushing bride asked him to sign her wedding shoes, and he grabbed a blue pen and wrote, HERE IS SOMETHING BLUE...
According to Saks' fashion director' Michael Fink, Louboutin's shoes--which retail on average for $800--are one of the store's top-selling brands. "It's the mystique of the extremely sexy pump," says Fink. "And, of course, the subtle branding of the red sole really helps...
More than a cunning marketing concept, the red sole was a happy accident. While working on a prototype in his studio in his early designing days, Louboutin searched for a way to match the shoe to a colorful sketch. "Something was missing, and I couldn't figure it out," he remembers. "Then I realized that the black sole of the shoe was too dark." So he grabbed a bottle of red nail polish from an assistant who was doing her nails nearby and painted the soles. "It didn't take me long to learn from my customers that...
...only moo-shoo pork for me,” but the acting and singing skills of Jonathan K. Tam ’10 and Ilan J. Caplan ’10 drew the most laughter. Tam, in particular, stood out—not only because he was the sole Asian in a predominantly white, Jewish cast. His renditions of “Ten Copecks” had the audience doubled up in laughter from the start, as did his performance as a vaudeville MC in the second act. Tam, who starred in last term’s production...