Christian Louboutin

I’m jealous. When Blake Lively wants to wear Louboutin heels she just emails Christian Louboutin himself like, “Yo, I’m wearing skinny jeans and this red top. What shoes do you want to give me?” and then Christian goes through his epic shoe warehouse and gives her shoes. So so so jealous.

Blake tells the most recent issue of Elle, “When I’m going to an event, I’ll send Christian a picture of my outfit and say, ‘What shoes do you think I should wear with this?’”

  I feel so bad for Christian Louboutin’s family. The most sought after shoes in the world are a pair of those iconic red soled heels and not even Christian Louboutin’s family gets free pairs. That sucks.

He says he wont give them as gifts because he says the recipients think he didn’t try hard enough, that gifting Louboutin’s is “too easy.” Who’s complaining? Who are these insane people that turn down free Louboutins?

“It depends on who it is but I never, or barely, give shoes to my family during the holidays. They're always like, 'Oh my God, you really took no effort to do that,' so I'm like, fair enough, you won't get any shoes,” says the designer. 

Christian Louboutin: Those red soles! We all have a love hate relationship with them. We love them because they are so fabulous, but we hate them because of the pain it causes once we have them on.

Christina Louboutin himself has finally explained why his heels are so uncomfortable. Ok, he hasn’t really explained why his shoes are uncomfortable in particular, but he’s explained why high heels are uncomfortable in general.

He explained to the Sunday Times newspaper: "There is an element of seduction in shoes that doesn't exist for men. Think about Marlene Dietrich crossing her legs - the whole attitude. The language starts with the shoe and radiates over the whole body. A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes. Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

It doesn't take much to get a museum in your honor these days. There are museums full of wax statues of celebrities; even those weird scientologists have their own museum in Hollywood.

Now, Christian Louboutin is to get a Museum Exhibition in his honor. Louboutin heels are worn by literally ever celebrity and one can always spot a Louboutin shoe by their bright red undersoles. They are shoes that us, normal girls, probably might own one pair in our lifetime, but we all know a Louboutin when we see one.

The French shoe designer's long career will be the focus of a new exhibition on display at the British capital's Design Museum from March 28 to July 1, 2012. Since the launch of his label in 1991, Louboutin's mission statement has been "to make shoes that are like jewels."

The exhibit will showcase his life's work but will also have insight into how he creates shoes, his influences etc.