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"The other day I was walking down the very ritzy rue de Grenelle. On that street, there is a YSL accessories boutique, a Prada shop, Barbara Bui, Michel Perry, a store owned by Iris, the shoe factory that makes Chloe, Viktor &amp;amp; Rolf and Marc Jacobs shoes&amp;amp;#8230; but on this day they all paled in comparison to the action at the Christian Louboutin store. Louboutin has thoroughly nudged Manolo Blahnik aside when it comes to red carpet mileage and celebrity obsession. (Perhaps the return of Sex and the City will put Manolo back on top. Who knows?) Even in Paris, where shops don&amp;amp;#8217;t usually get overrun (unless they are LV or Hermes and the customers are tourists), the peddler of telltale red soles played host to a shopping scrum the other day. Also recently, there was that very high profile fete held for him a week and a half ago at Saks in LA. Plus, he just collaborated with David Lynch on an exhibition of fetish photography that is truly wonderful. It is most definitely Louboutin&amp;amp;#8217;s moment. So what&amp;amp;#8217;s the reason for it? He&amp;amp;#8217;s been in business for himself since 1992. Why now? Personally, I&amp;amp;#8217;m a fan of his sense of color, and I share his obsession with toe cleavage, and people like the familiarity of the red sole, which is visible from the red carpet. What do you guys think, you who are fans? How does he stack up, for you, versus Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo? Or Rene Caovilla or Gina? &amp;amp;#8212;Alex"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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