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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.: i. O- S5 ?% a' R$ c
''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.( M. R( c6 [! e3 C6 k" ^. B M- M
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Carla 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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.
6 Y) B/ L# s# Z, w/ u5 f& Y$ d: GThe 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.
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' \' V, X1 ?) T/ J* L$ T& W Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea5 ^0 U* v; o# W# ]) t _9 M1 y- z
: n+ T% m$ B- c' t. ~ Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy
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" O6 ?0 a8 b& \( y# J' w3 F Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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