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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, q: V) Z! r/ E. @3 [3 x''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.- D3 \, M" A2 j# T8 `
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How a Small Shop Grew
$ D" t# ~! }! j cCarla 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 p# z& P3 J% p
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./ j; e) W' v9 z: O
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/ O( k) J I; e+ o Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy! |3 J3 }6 \3 h) i3 ?) H
7 p, x# z5 }8 X3 J( Y Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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