I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

The first was a story of a French woman who asked him to make her a pair of shoes for her very large feet. Business Model
In his first year of business Louboutin sold 200 pairs of shoes. This image stayed in his mind and he later used this idea in his designs.

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