Within a matter of days, the media was abuzz. Christian Louboutin was suing the company for more than $1 million. It was significant for the brand’s bottom line, as touted by its parent company, the corporate conglomerate now known as Kering, and it was not being overlooked by rival Christian Louboutin. After all, inside that package addressed to Yves Saint Laurent was not a shoe it was a complaint. Given that a significant portion of high fashion brands’ revenue routinely comes from the sale of accessories, including handbags and footwear, the praise for YSL’s footwear offerings was no small matter. The first two sentences – “The shoes! The shoes!” – told you everything you needed to know.
One need not look further than Tim Blanks’ take on the Spring/Summer 2012 YSL collection for proof. In fact, the garments of Yves Saint Laurent’s soon-to-be-ousted creative director Stefano Pilati were being outshined, according to critics, by the famed brand’s footwear. Online, some 48 percent of luxury footwear searches in 2011 were for Louboutins.īack on Avenue George V, which is where Yves Saint Laurent’s ateliers and corporate head office were located in 2011, Yves Saint Laurent was turning out noteworthy footwear, as well. There was nary a red carpet that was not smattered with actresses in the brand’s shoes, or a magazine that was without an editorial in which Louboutin shoes appeared. “Then it popped,” he said, and the foundation of a footwear revolution was born.įast forward less than two decades and by 2010, Louboutin was selling more than 600,000 pairs of shoes per year – all of which bore Pantone 18-1663 TPX “Chinese red”-hued soles. Christian Louboutin, who was 33-years-old at the time, reached for a bottle of red nail polish – “Thank God, there was this girl painting her nails,” he told the New Yorker – and with that, the shoe’s sole went from a dull black to a striking red. The concept shoe, with its stacked heel and floral applique, was missing something. A carefully packaged prototype of a high heel shoe arrived from Italy to the workshop of the budding Parisian brand. and its Paris-based entity, Yves Saint Laurent SAS.įifteen years prior, in 1996, Christian Louboutin was on the receiving end of a delivery of its own. The stack of documents was hand-delivered to the fashion house in Paris, as well as to its American headquarters on the heavily foot-trafficked 57th Street, nestled between Louis Vuitton and Chanel’s midtown outposts, and addressed to Yves Saint Laurent America, Inc. Next time you're ready to dress up your look, try on a few different pairs of Steve Madden heels and notice how they steer your style.On the tree-lined Avenue George V in Paris’ 8th Arrondissement, mere steps from the Seine and just across the street from where Cristóbal Balenciaga opened his own maison in 1937, Yves Saint Laurent’s team was in the midst of working on the brand’s Resort collection in early April 2011 when a package arrived.
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