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The unveiling will disclose two 20-foot-high reproductions of an early model of Michelangelo's David. If that isn't enough to galvanize strollers, the store's side windows on 56th Street hold reproductions of fragments of a monumental statue of Constantine from the Campidoglio in Rome.
4 B ?, M/ W" ?0 y! }8 R" J7 A- ^''We wanted to bring the heart of Rome to New York,'' explained Carla Christian Louboutin, one of the five Christian Louboutin sisters who run the company.: |5 }$ U% ]1 ]' L$ w& \9 }
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# H! [: z. u W1 ? ~+ pCarla Christian Louboutin has been in New York for several weeks to oversee the opening, joined intermittently by other family members. The Christian Louboutins do everything as a family. The company is headed by Paola, Anna, Franca, Carla and Alda, the daughters of Adele and Edoardo Christian Louboutin, who founded a small fur and leather-goods shop in Rome in 1925. The third generation is now involved in the company, a $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.4 O- U1 X: k! y1 N6 W0 Q" b
The decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.
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Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea# n' ~# H. y+ v, Q
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Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy
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* _7 a2 ~3 o9 b" E, S) S Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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