Fashion shoes with red bottom

Christian Louboutin's trademark red-bottomed shoes have become iconic. Besides production costs and the use of pricey materials, Louboutins are the ultimate status symbol. Christian Louboutin is the mastermind behind these iconic red-bottomed shoes. It's safe to say his footwear has stepped into the mainstream. Celebrities all over the world wear them.

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Christian Louboutin has been credited with making women's legs look longer , creating celebrity high heel frenzies , inspiring serious lust and temporary credit card insanity in fashion editors like me , and perhaps most importantly, turning the once-overlooked sole of a shoe into a bona fide status symbol. So just how did his highly coveted cherry red soles come to be? This week's New Yorker has a funny and very telling profile on the shoe designer, and nestled among the many incredible anecdotes a few of my favorites: He owns a 13th century castle where a taxidermy boar wearing a gold crown also resides; he once custom-made a pair of shoes with real ruby soles for a private client is the story of how those red bottoms became his signature. Back in when he had been in business for about two years, "Louboutin had thought of making a shoe inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Flowers. Funny how a business worth a global fortune gained its footing, so to speak, with something as teeny tiny as a bottle of nail polish, huh?

The famous footwear designer talks to Olivia Petter about his upcoming exhibition and the ubiquitous appeal of his signature red soles. Louboutin is the man who made rappers, models, actors and, well, everyone else with an interest in fashion, care about the soles of their shoes. Such is the social and cultural reverence surrounding his designs. The show will see roughly pairs of shoes on display alongside the myriad objects, artworks and personal items that inspired them.