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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.- a& ?& I6 v0 d0 \" Z5 c1 i- R
''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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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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.
' f. l5 l8 Z9 ^7 Y& q5 w( ZThe decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.+ f( t {" f: M4 D$ J4 G+ k
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- | n- G8 g" P+ ^+ P; O( w$ ~ Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea* I% ?( v6 S! s+ v
4 S7 ?' J+ d( X Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy; ?8 l* g, |; {; x1 `2 m! K- k
- u' y* `/ d4 \* n0 c5 w Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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