Christian Louboutin’s notorious crimson sole is the stuff of footwear trade lore; the designer used nail polish to color the soles of his horny stilettos to make the shoe stand out at an early commerce present.
The brand new marketing campaign for Christian Louboutin eyewear – Courtesy
This tidbit helped encourage the model to department out into its extremely profitable magnificence line. The model additionally produces purses, a full vary of equipment, a child’s shoe line, and bridal footwear. Now, the designer is including one other new class: eyewear.
With the plethora of wealthy model codes—spike studs, pointy edges a la the stiletto, fishnet sample designs, metallic finishes, and, in fact, these well-known, lawsuit-worthy crimson soles—Christian Louboutin has teamed up with Marcolin to debut its first-ever sunglass and optical collections.
A mode from the debut Christian Louboutin eyewear assortment – Courtesy
With a complete of 9 sunglass kinds in varied colorways and 4 optical kinds, the model will retail fromapproximately $625 to $875 with distribution on-line at its devoted web-store and at Saks Fifth Avenue shops.
In accordance with a launch, the choices embrace girls’s and males’s kinds and draw inspiration from Christian Louboutin’s work in pursuit of the ‘perfect structural lines. ‘ The eyewear range includes new ZEISS lenses, which provide crystal-clear, comfortable vision thanks to anti-reflective coatings, glare reduction, and durability treatments. Described as a collection of ‘modern luxury’ in response to an organization spokesperson, the kinds mix acetate and steel trims and mechanics. Model codes are current as a row of teeny spikes on a pair of outsized Navigator frames; minuscule crimson sole {hardware} adorns the frames of Artwork-Deco cat and oval kinds.
A mode from the debut Christian Louboutin eyewear assortment – Courtesy
Mesh patterns on bridges and temples recall the designer’s fishnet-inspired kinds on the Rocker and So Kate kinds. On the similar time, crimson particulars seem as linear accents on the outside and interiors of the frames, such because the Georges or Greggo 2 frames. Some kinds take ‘rose-colored’ glasses to a brand new degree with cherry crimson lenses, as seen on a model of the Miss Z. Many particulars additionally mimic the model’s magnificence choices.
To have a good time, Marcolin is internet hosting a New York debut social gathering subsequent week on the stylish The Nines restaurant and piano room, which, fittingly, is doused in crimson from ceiling to ground.
