Monsieur Christian Louboutin introduced his BFF Philippe Starck at a fashion industry mega event last night (they were both receiving awards) and Louboutin, a self-described teenage punk and “major safety pin victim” talked about meeting Starck for the first time in a Paris nightclub. He describes their encounter (I am paraphrasing): “Whatever Phillipe Starck, I heard you design some furniture or something, but you’re not a punk and you look totally boring and I don’t like your shoes or your tie.” Plus, Starck was totally old. He was a ripe 25.
Starck on Louboutin: “He was the worst teenager I ever saw in my life…he was terrible. He was a gremlin! You could never take him out because he broke everything. He’d burn the curtains, break all the glasses.”
But now he’s the creator of holy of holies, the red soled shoes (including a very sparkly pair for Starck’s wife when they wed seven months ago). And, well, “All the girls will die for him!”
Poor Philippe Starck, he laments only being a designer of a better toilet brush, but no one will die for those, now will they?
“After 30 years, I feel a little useless.”
[p.s. Mr. Starck: I’d rather sit in a Ghost chair most days than stand in Louboutin heels.]
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