After 50 years, Barbie now owns 1 billion pairs of shoes. Can you imagine?!! It only seems fitting that Mattel, the maker of Barbie, chose Christian Louboutin, one of the hottest shoe designers around, to make her next pair. Louboutin will play godfather to Barbie for a full year, rethinking her fashion wardrobe and physical attributes, and directing her in different lifelike situations.
This project includes these pretty pink, red-soled Louboutin pumps that premiered in Barbie’s birthday runway show during NYFW in February, a Barbie doll and accessories collection customized by the designer, and a diary filled with images of Louboutin and Barbie as they explore the cobbler’s favorite things. Louboutin had some specific changes in mind when making his three customized dolls: “She needed great shoes, a thinner ankle and, to me, as I’m obsessed with feet, a foot more curved,” he said.
The three dolls, packaged in Louboutin shoe boxes, each come with four pairs of Barbie-size Louboutin heels. In December, Mattel will unveil Louboutin’s jewel thief-themed Barbie; in February, it will add a safari-themed Barbie, and for May, Louboutin designed a Barbie that goes to the Cannes Film Festival. Get your $150 dolls at BarbieCollector.com and at Net-a-porter.com. Santa I’ll take all three, please!
Pictures from www.wwd.com
{ 1 trackback }
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
women,s shoes in red is marvelous and the person which made the barbie shoe sample would be genius one…..