Tuesday 23 July 2013

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But today’s lawsuit isn’t just about red shoes. Anyone can manufacture and sell those; every holiday season designers from Miuccia Prada to Steve Madden churn out festive red sequin pumps that are a wink at ruby slippers. In the case against Yves Saint Laurent, Louboutin isn't laying claim to the color red. He's defending his use of the red outsoles that are the brand's signature. Ever since the days when Sex and the City was a hit show on HBO, shoes have attained a cult-like status in this country, and buying expensive, high-fashion footwear is now considered a rite of passage for any aspiring fashion maven. In the '90s, the most coveted shoes were those designed by Manolo Blahnik, but then Christian Louboutin, France’s secret weapon, arrived on the scene. By 2008, when the much anticipated Sex and the City movie premiered, even the franchise that made Manolo famous had switched its allegiances. Carrie Bradshaw, who had once told a mugger, "Please, sir, You can take my Fendi baguette, you can take my ring and my watch, but don’t take my Manolos Blahniks," now wore Louboutins.
What makes Louboutin soles so brilliant is that it only takes a smidge of pop-culture consciousness to identify them, unlike a Blahnik shoe, whose more subtle identifying marks (quality, shape, whimsical embellishments) require some fluency in footwear to discern. People who can’t tell the difference between a Giuseppe Zanotti and a Jeffrey Campbell see the flash of red and know they’re looking at a Louboutin.
In the last decade, Louboutin's red soles have become a sort of visual shorthand that signals a woman's high economic status and power. They also carry an undercurrent of the risqué, like the glimpse of a red lace bra strap under a conservative blouse. In this way, Louboutin's shoes have become the stuff of a modern-day fairy tale. Just as in Andersen's story, they symbolize independence and high status. The woman who wears them is given the opportunity to transcend economic and social boundaries—except this being branding, and not grim Danish storytelling, she ends up, not ashamed, but "empowered" by the shoes. Time and again, pop culture reinforces this narrative. In Jennifer Lopez’s single “Louboutins,” she invokes the red sole as the last thing her cheating lover will see now that she’s found the courage to leave him (not unlike Nancy Sinatra's calling upon the strength of her boots to keep her walking). 2009’s silly thriller Obsessed showed Ali Larter’s character—a sexy temp with a pathological crush on her married boss—climbing his stairs at the climax of the movie with her red soles flashing behind her. And recently, the heroines of two USA dramas, "Covert Affairs" and "Fairly Legal" have been costumed in Louboutins to underscore their status as successful, self-possessed women.
It's been pointed out that YSL has occasionally manufactured and sold shoes with red soles as far back as the 1970s. And it remains to be seen whether Louboutin can defend his brand's trademark against his rival in court. What is clear, though, is that Louboutins are a historically significant new take on our long fascination with ruby slippers.
Shoes for girls  high heels 2013

Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013


Shoes for girls  high heels 2013

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