PHOTOGRAPHY: BAKER & EVANS INTERIORS: OLLY MASON FOOD: IAIN GRAHAM WRITER: TF CHANFew designers have been as bonded to a
specific colour as Christian Louboutin. His
soaring stilettos are distinguished by their vivid
red undersides, a feature created in 1993 using
an assistant’s nail polish and ubiquitous ever
since. As his empire grew, so the same shade of
red (a precise Pantone) made its way on to
men’s shoes, baby shoes, fragrance packaging
and, naturally, became a nail polish. A quarter of
a century on, Louboutin’s claim to the colour
has even been affirmed by the EU’s highest court,
which ruled that the brand had exclusive rights
to using it on the sole of any shoe, regardless of
shape. Not surprisingly, the footwear maven’s
favourite dish, salmorejo, takes on a similar hue.
He calls this chilled concoction of tomatoes and
bread ‘the image of sunrise; of hot and long days’.
For Louboutin’s recipe, visit Wallpaper.com ∫Artist’s Palate
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CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN’S
Salmorejo
#95
‘GOA’ SPOON IN RED MATT
GOLD, PART OF 24-PIECE
SET, FROM £391, BY CUTIPOL.
‘TEEMA’ BOWL, £14, BY
KAJ FRANCK, FOR IITTALA,
FROM SKANDIUM. STILETTOS,
£525, BY CHRISTIAN
LOUBOUTIN. BACKGROUND
IN LOUBOUTIN’S SIGNATURE
PANTONE RED
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