Everyone in the pool!
Paris Fashion Week 2024 has been dubbed the ‘Olympics of fashion’ – and Christian’s Louboutin’s elaborate show worked overtime to earn the annual event its nickname, ending with designer and friend David LaChapelle in a pool, fully clothed.
On Friday night at Piscine Molitor in the City of Light, the luxury brand explored uncharted waters – with historic swimming baths taking the place of a traditional runway, which models entered via a pump-shaped slide while wearing Louboutin shoes.
The fashion house enlisted the help of 15 French Olympic figure swimmers to perform a synchronized routine to show off the new Miss Z heels for the presentation, titled “Paris is Louboutining,” a show themed “Paris is Burning.”
Louboutin, the founder of his eponymous brand, told Women’s Wear Daily that he likes to “do things with shoes where you don’t expect to see shoes” – and was upset that the chrome pumps, described as looking like “shells” under water – held during trials.
“We discovered you can swim in Louboutins — and they still look great,” said Louboutin, who enlisted the help of photographer and director David LaChapelle to create the sensational event.
Against a backdrop of window dancers—and, not to mention, a fireman on a stripper pole—the troupe, dressed in metallic pumps and one-piece swimsuits, put on a 15-minute show choreographed by Blanca Li, a performance that has since gone viral on social media and has been hailed as “epic” and “creative”.
To close the show, Louboutin, Li and LaChapelle jumped into the pool fully clothed to join the ensemble already in the water. Louboutin, of course, took the stiletto slip for a spin.
“Great show,” one viewer wrote on TikTok. “It seems to defy the perception that Louboutins are uncomfortable and you can’t do things in them! Prove that you CAN!”
For the swimmers, the fashion party looked like “a piece of cake,” Louboutin told WWD — though some of the athletes may have emerged from the pool with a few battle scars.
“We’re swimming very close together,” Olympian Claudia Janvier told the New York Times.
“I have a bunch of bruises that I had to cover up from being hit with a stiletto.”
Louboutin told WWD that he was inspired by the Paris Olympics this summer, telling the media that he has “always loved synchronized swimming” — even his two daughters were swimming before they could walk, he said.
“We all love Olympic athletes, who represent the best of humanity,” he said. “We want to create a beautiful, escapist moment.”
This is not the only show that converges sport and style.
While athletes have been front row at international fashion weeks this month, American gymnast Jordan Chiles walked the runway at Kim Shui’s New York Fashion Week presentation at Hudson Yards and American climber Brooke Raboutou walked the catwalk for designer Cecilie Bahnsen .
Meanwhile, archer and artist SAGG Napoli shot arrows on the Dior catwalk during Paris Fashion Week.
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