Archive for June 29th, 2011
Above: Louboutin’s fierce black-and-white bootie (reeacted from Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse)
Christian Louboutin jacks up the artistic edge of their Fall 2011 lookbook with an assemblage of photos that reenacts iconic figures from Renaissance paintings. Be it sitting atop a luscious fruit platter or held reverently by James McNeill Whistler’s mother, Louboutin’s edgy heels – and bags – are on full display behind the photographic lens of Peter Lippman. Besides heralding the theme of ‘the power of femininity’, the shoot has another more straightforward message – that Louboutin’s creations fit comfortably within the world of art. Read More
