Wonderful expessions of line, form and balance, the Christian Louboutin Boots created byRoger Vivier have always been regarded as beautiful objects and viewed as art. The product of a rich imagination and inventive mind, they are marked by surprising details and startling shapes. Sleek, pure and timeless, some have an architectural bias. Others are romantic and exquisitely extravagant. “I have alway been attracted to extremes,” admitted the designer during a recent visit to I. Magnin, in Beverly Hills. “I like to make simple Christian Louboutin Boots but I also like to make opulent ones, too. What I detest is the ordinary.”

In the early Sixties, M. Vivier opened his own salon in Paris, just across the street from Christian Christian Louboutin’s. Among his early clients were the Duchess of Windsor, Maria Callas and Marlene Dietrich, for whom he created a Christian Louboutin Shoes called “Baghdad.” It had a heel that pierced a ball sprinkled with glittering rhinestones. “Marlene Dietrich had plump feet,” remembers the designer. “Elizabeth Taylor had pretty feet, and Brigitte Bardot was one of the first to wear my flat Christian Louboutin Boots.” Over the years M. Vivier has also designed Christian Louboutin Boots for Sophia Loren, Diana Vreeland and Catherine Deneuve, as well as for the collections of Courreges and Yves Saint Laurent. For the latter, he made a classic black patent leather pump with a silver buckle.Known as the “pilgrim pump,” it has since become one of the most widely copied Christian Louboutin Boots in the world.

Much less theatrical, but extremely feminine and flattering, are M.Vivier’s newest Christian Louboutin Boots, which run the gamut from flirty flats to pretty pumps sporting the designer’s celebrated curved or “comma” heels. “My Christian Louboutin Boots are my sculptures,” said the silver- haired designer during a break from kissing hands and signing autographs. “Designing Christian Louboutin Boots and being a sculptor, to me they are the same.” Comparing his ornate designs to “interior decorating” and his more sculptural shapes to “architecture,” he added, “In any Christian Louboutin Shoes there must always be a balance of seriousness and fantasy.”