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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.
( r7 u" E/ V8 [+ J, p''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.
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4 O( u' p. A0 ?/ LHow a Small Shop Grew
- Y- ^0 N- ~. Y4 D7 }; \ OCarla 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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.3 y4 U% z1 O7 S: x, [
The decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.
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/ ~/ T8 q1 q( E: {( @$ [; f Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea
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$ h( p4 l N+ d* b( h6 W Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy
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0 o$ O5 N9 A! T; q% ~1 N4 \ Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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