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The red sole
***WARNING: I’m going to indulge a bit into the fashion/luxury world for a minute. Forgive me if this bores you immensely, but I promise there’s more to it than Sex in the City-esque moment, where the ladies are oggling over “just another pair of shoes”***
Ladies, you know them. The sultry red soled shoes. Dorothy had NO idea what she was missing out with her sparkly red shoes-can you imagine if she had the Louboutin equivalent? Who knows WHERE she would’ve ended up. Not Kansas.
That red sole makes many a woman’s heart aflutter (this woman is included). The heels teeter high above ground and look nearly impossible to walk in, but yet, totally worth it. I was brought back into this world of whimsy as I gazed at a pair of these from afar in Barneys in Beverly Hills yesterday. It was a world where things were just a bit better: judging by how everyone shopped there, there was no recession. Only beautiful shoes. Ah, alternate reality.
Escape. With the red soles. How did a red sole come to mean so much? It’s become this fixed idea in our psyche that we just need them. They make you more beautiful. More desirable. More intelligent. You can think it, it will do it for you. Now before you think I’ve completely lost my mind (and sold my soul to the fashion devil), it’s all about making a person FEEL something. And ad can make you feel something. As can a song, a book or a pair of shoes with cultural meaning planted in the sole of the shoe in the most daring red known to (wo)man.
Indulge yourself if Mr. Louboutin’s most luxuriously, quirky world on their new website:
http://www.christianlouboutin.com/
PS. Anyone out there who wants to help sponsor some market research–I am in love with a pair of turquoise 5 inch pumps. I don’t know if I could walk in them…help me research people. In the name of cultural anthropology…