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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.
T9 W: J& H( r4 m" y''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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How a Small Shop Grew
8 I/ W2 r5 y4 `* t% k& I! d; kCarla 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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.5 _5 R* u7 {9 B! |0 }! |$ ~
The 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.+ I2 f/ V3 a- R+ m0 x7 F" C l
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& |. ^( ~7 {6 c# m Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy& Z1 \5 j- B: f% _, ~3 Q. v
- P8 C8 u ~( M2 }# e6 B Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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