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The unveiling will disclose two 20-foot-high reproductions of an early model of Michelangelo's David. If that isn't enough to galvanize strollers, the store's side windows on 56th Street hold reproductions of fragments of a monumental statue of Constantine from the Campidoglio in Rome.
+ U8 `. b. t2 \''We wanted to bring the heart of Rome to New York,'' explained Carla Christian Louboutin, one of the five Christian Louboutin sisters who run the company.
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6 g2 K) n7 O2 m( J) xHow a Small Shop Grew
. q" x8 |' c8 J5 QCarla Christian Louboutin has been in New York for several weeks to oversee the opening, joined intermittently by other family members. The Christian Louboutins do everything as a family. The company is headed by Paola, Anna, Franca, Carla and Alda, the daughters of Adele and Edoardo Christian Louboutin, who founded a small fur and leather-goods shop in Rome in 1925. The third generation is now involved in the company, a $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.
( h: m: J. [9 d2 F/ W* ]+ a6 rThe decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.( R$ ^6 X: Q7 G& `$ p
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) f0 w/ c2 ~; L3 F7 D3 x$ ] Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea+ \. y) R& C" H
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Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy
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- I X4 ^+ S- q8 I& [ Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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