Everyone in the pool!
Paris Fashion Week 2024 is called the “Fashion Olympics” – and Christian’s Louboutin’s splashy show worked overtime to give the annual event its name, ending with the designer of stilettos and his friend David LaChapelle in the pool, fully dressed.
On Friday night at Piscine Molitor in the City of Light, the luxury brand explored uncharted waters – with the well-known swimming pool taking the place of the brand, which models entered through a pump-shaped slide wearing Louboutin shoes.
The fashion house asked 15 French Olympic swimmers to show off Miss Z’s new heels at the show, called “Paris is Louboutining,” a play on “Paris is Burning.”
Louboutin, who launched his name, told Women’s Wear Daily that he likes to “do things with shoes that you don’t expect to see shoes” – and was surprised that the chrome pumps, which are described as looking like “bullets” under water – were held during the trial.
“We realized that you can swim in Louboutins – and they look good,” said Louboutin, who enlisted the help of photographer and director David LaChapelle to create a fun event.
Behind the dancers in the windows – and, not to mention, the fireman on the bare tree – the group, dressed in metallic pumps and similar to bathing suits, put on a 15-minute show filmed by Blanca Li, a work that has been successful on social media and hailed as “extensive” and “wise”.
To close the show, Louboutin, Li and LaChapelle jumped into the pool fully clothed to join the crowd already in the water. Louboutin, of course, took the stiletto slide for a spin.
“Great show,” wrote one viewer on TikTok. “It seems to disprove the idea that Louboutins are uncomfortable and you can’t do things in them! It proves that you CAN!
For swimmers, fashion seems like a “piece of cake,” Louboutin told WWD — though a few athletes may have gotten out of the pool with a few battle scars.
“We’re swimming very close together,” Olympian Claudia Janvier told the New York Times.
“I have a lot of bruises that I need to cover up so I don’t get stabbed by a stiletto.”
Louboutin told WWD that he was inspired by the Olympics in Paris this summer, telling the site that he’s “always loved swimming in contact” — even though his two daughters swim before they walk, he laughed.
“We all love Olympic athletes, who represent the best of humanity,” he said. “We want to make the best time to escape.”
It is not the only show that combines sports and style.
While athletes took the lead at international fashion weeks this month, US gymnast Jordan Chiles walked the runway for Kim Shui at New York Fashion Week at Hudson Yards and US rock climber Brooke Raboutou arrived at designer Cecilie Bahnsen’s show.
Meanwhile, archer and designer SAGG Napoli shot arrows down the Dior catwalk during Paris Fashion Week.
#Splashy #Christian #Louboutins #show #featuring #Olympic #swimmers #strippeddown #firefighter #ends #celebrity #model #takes #dip #finery