The Design Museum presents the first UK retrospective of iconic French shoe designer Christian Louboutin, celebrating a career which has pushed the boundaries of high fashion shoe design.
Louboutin’s exquisite shoes, with their instantly recognisable glossy red soles, are a unique fusion of fashion, craftsmanship, engineering and sculpture. This exhibition celebrates Louboutin’s career to date and showcases twenty years of designs and inspiration, revealing the artistry and theatricality of his shoe design from stilettos to lace-up boots, studded sneakers and bejewelled pumps. Louboutin’s shoes are the epitome of style, glamour, power, femininity and elegance.
A dramatic exhibition environment will present Louboutin’s artistic personality and creative approach. It will examine the many sources of his creativity, shoes inspired by performance, cabaret and the showgirl; fantasy and fairy tale; art and architecture; film; landscape and travel. The exhibition will also focus on the handcrafted shoe, one-off designs which incorporate his highly innovative ideas, forms and materials. There will be a special section dedicated to the shoes designed for ‘Fetish’ an exhibition at the La Gallerie Du Passage, Paris in 2007, a unique collaboration of photography between Louboutin and acclaimed artist David Lynch.
倫敦設計博物館舉辦法國時尚鞋履設計師克里斯提 · 魯布托 (Christian Louboutin)在英國的首個回顧展,紀念這位勇 於打破高級鞋履時尚的界限的設計師。
魯布托設計的精緻鞋履,伴隨他著名的閃耀紅色鞋底,是集 時尚、技藝、工程和雕塑的獨特融合。這次展覽為紀念魯布 托至今的職業生涯,展示了他二十年來的設計和靈感,從他 設計的細高跟鞋到系帶鞋,從鉚釘運動鞋到珠寶鑲嵌的船 鞋,充分展現了其設計的藝術性與戲劇性。魯布托設計的鞋 履是集魅力、權力、女性特質與優雅為一身的體現。
值得一題的是這次展覽的布展方式,戲劇性的展覽環境來 展現魯布托的藝術個性和創造力。其創造力的源泉以各種方 式淋漓盡致地展現於觀眾面前,表演與歌舞女郎,幻象與童 話,藝術與建築,電影,風景和旅遊。此次展覽也同樣專注 於其手工製作的鞋履,一次性的設計,這些都注入了其高度 的創新思路、形式和材料。展覽同樣有一個特殊的專區展 示了2007年在法國巴黎通道畫廊名為“戀物癖(Fetish)”的 展覽中的一些攝影作品,由魯布托與知名藝術家大衛·林奇 (David Lynch)獨家合作。
