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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.
7 x* E% {0 A2 _2 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.% d9 k% @) W1 |; w" b5 m* a
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How a Small Shop Grew
/ E) L" T) }7 C& y/ _9 D2 \6 Q5 MCarla 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 $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.2 s E- r; ^: C! U
The decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.
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Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea# q; I; o: k9 \# h9 H$ O3 S& U' a
^0 k5 |$ g+ t; @3 S Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy4 c( f6 A5 a$ g+ H' ?1 o
& I2 Z( P9 q' D. R Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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