Fetish Shoes: Christian Louboutin Teams Up with David Lynch

Posted on | October 4, 2007

Christian Louboutin Fetish Shoes for David Lynch These Christian Louboutin and David Lynch Fetish Shoes and accompanying photographs are HOT! I’ve always been a fan of film director David Lynch and find his movies, television shows, etc. to be often astoundingly beautiful. As for Christian Louboutin, I’ve liked his shoes, but never been head-over-heels for them — until now. The pairing of these two makes me want to run out and buy a pair of these fetish shoes (along with a few photographs, of course), even if I couldn’t actually wear them out. These Fetish shoes are simply gorgeous!

The following is an interview with French shoe designer Christian Louboutin:

With their red soles and vertiginous heels, there’s already something a little subversive about Christian Louboutin’s shoes. But in Fetish, his photo collaboration with David Lynch — a man who knows a little something about kinkiness himself — Louboutin took the black leather gloves off. These shoes and boots are definitely not made for walking. The show opened at the Galerie du Passage in Paris, France yesterday; we caught up with the shoe designer after the launch party.

Fetish Shoes: Christian Louboutin and David Lynch How did the collaboration come about?
David had a big exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in March and he asked me to do some shoes for it. Out of that, I thought of asking him to do some photographs for me — he’s my favorite director. I said, “I’m thinking of designing fetish shoes for you,” and he didn’t let me finish my sentence. He said yes right away.

Why were you interested in fetish shoes?
I’ve always heard about shoe fetishists, both men and women. It became a sort of exercise, one that allows me to do things I can’t do in my regular line. Making these shoes is closer to my primary joy, my drawing, because they’re devoted to static pleasure; there’s no motion, they’re for the bed. Real-life shoes are less like your imagination.

David Lynch photographs Christian Louboutin Fetish Shoes What was working with David Lynch like?
It was a full process with two people. David has a huge will to please a person; he’s really dedicated. I stayed the whole two days — I’m even in some of the pictures.

Did he have any requirements? Any requests?
He said, “No bones.” He didn’t want the girls to be too skinny, so we chose two models from the Crazy Horse. And he asked for sunglasses that would look like the black bar over girls’ faces in pornography from the twenties and thirties, so we built the glasses in my atelier.

Fetish Shoes: Christian Louboutin Fetish Shoes Photographed by David Lynch Will you work together again?
Yes, when we both decide the project is right.

Are the fetish shoes for sale?
At first, they weren’t going to be. But there were so many people who wanted to buy a photograph and the shoes in it. So, there are five prints of each photo, and five pairs of corresponding fetish shoes available.

– Nicole Phelps
Source: style.com

Fetish Shoes: Christian Louboutin Teams Up with David Lynch

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