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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.
3 o2 O s6 f* }8 K''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
4 W. _- ^) @, `& @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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.
?$ A; G$ {( e: J9 wThe 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.1 A$ e9 G) y1 K- u3 g
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8 r2 P4 ?: [6 [2 \- G Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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