Louboutin Retrospective
By FashionUnited
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An exhibition to celebrate Christian Louboutin’s 20th anniversary opens today at the Design Museum, London. The retrospective is the shoe designer’s first exhibition in the UK and it draws inspiration from Louboutin’s assertion that ‘every woman wants to be a showgirl’.
Designed by London-based customer experience design company, Household, who have worked with Christian Louboutin over the past three years developing special retail projects, have created a ‘show’ experience that celebrate the designers 20 years of design and captures the artistry and theatricality of Louboutin shoes.
Presented in a thematic rather than a chronological format, the exhibits are grouped into displays examining themes of Transparency, Travel, Architecture, Entertainment, and Handcrafted, all flowing from the central ‘showgirl’ installation of a 17m long signature red sole.
Other highlights of the exhibition that features more than a hundred Louboutin styles includes a specially created Dita Von Teese holographic performance, a look at the 2007 Fetish collection, which is accompanied by photographs by David Lynch, and a section dedicated to the recreation of Louboutin’s Parisian atelier.
Images: Danielle Wightman-Stone