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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.6 R# V% t9 x$ V
''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.2 p- A/ E% V5 s0 s$ T- z3 J N
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How a Small Shop Grew
1 P+ e4 P; a1 Y+ o7 x/ q# } nCarla 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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.
- ]& Y4 }6 f0 u& Y7 |: ~The decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.& ~% N6 }( W- Z
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9 ^- s! {( n! l Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea
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, Z$ X( |. M" u6 \* R) [1 g Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy
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8 m n/ V% d( X# _ R6 m. `, A1 n) T# b Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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