His stiletto footwear incorporates shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature. He has partnered with other organizations for projects including limited edition pieces, gallery exhibits, and a custom bar. His company has since branched out into men's luxury footwear, handbags, fragrances, and makeup. Louboutin was born and raised in Paris. He was the only son of Roger, a cabinet-maker , [6] and Irene, a homemaker [7] from Brittany.
He had three sisters. Louboutin said in a interview that he was "much darker-skinned than everyone else in my family.
You know, I felt like I wasn't French. My family was very French and so I decided they had probably adopted me. But instead of feeling it was terrible and that I was an outsider who had to go and find my real family, I invented my own history, full of characters from Egypt, because I was very into the pharaohs.
Louboutin was expelled from school three times and then he decided to run away from home at the age of 12, [11] at which point his mother allowed him to move out to live at a friend's house.
However, he claims that what helped him make up his mind was an interview on TV with Sophia Loren , in which she introduced her sister. She stated that she had to leave school when she was only 12, but got her degree when she was He later remarked, "Everybody applauded! As a preteen he was one of the "Bande Du Palace", a group of hard-partying teens and preteens that included Eva Ionesco , who was a fixture of the Parisian nightclub Le Palace.
