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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.
+ L z/ I( J- [''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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8 H8 Z s, r3 k3 l; t6 q6 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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.
5 `* {' O* F1 u7 V& ]5 L: u* q3 eThe decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.# `$ |7 l! Z, T7 u+ j: w+ c5 ?, b
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) ^* g I6 _' ^" z# W4 p5 a7 y Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea
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. I+ y( k+ A) @. l; o# l/ y Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy' f3 z$ N- K+ r3 ~3 p) e' z2 l- h
% l* x) D0 T% w& Z3 z% [. j4 _ Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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