Louboutin defends red soles
01/05/2012
Mr Louboutin was in London to open his first UK retrospective to mark the brand's 20th anniversary at the Design Museum. He told Reuters that the PPR Group were being unfair in the court battle over red soled shoes.
“They lead out of luxury and they should know that luxury has identity signatures,” he said.
A U.S. court rejected a request by Mr Louboutin to stop the sale of YSL shoes that are red all over, including the soles.
“It's very hypocritical because they themselves... own colours. I just don't understand how you can say well, you cannot own a specific color on a specific place when you yourself own different colors. I'm a self-made person, I've run my own company for 20 years and this big massive group is able to hammer me, with the biggest amount of lawyers. They try to damage me, my company and it's extremely unfair especially someone that I knew, who I thought was a friend, who just happened to be a very weak person,” he added.
The designer also defended his previous comments that women who cannot walk in his shoes, shouldn't wear them and that wearing high heels is both pleasure and pain.
“When I do a shoe, I don't want to evoke comfort... saying that suffering to be beautiful, it doesn't work. It doesn't give you nice smiles, that's a sure thing.”
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