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Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin are two of the most coveted shoe designers in the fashion industry. Adored by celebrities and fashionistas everywhere, the famous designs both appear all over runways and red carpets worldwide. But between the two shoe moguls, will it be the beautiful British or the fabulous French that wins our heart?

The Brand

Jimmy Choo: the Jimmy Choo brand was created in the 90’s with the teaming of an experienced leather goods designer with exceptional talent and know-how and a fashion editor. Celebrities fell in love with the label and soon the designs were seen on the feet of everyone from Penelope Cruz to Lady Diana. The name became more famous after appearing in Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada. After becoming known for its stunning shoes oozing with sultry feminine charm, the Jimmy Choo brand is now equally reputable for its luxury handbags.

Louboutin : Since its beginnings in 1992, the Louboutin fashion house has had one single ambition: to create the ideal shoe with voluptuous curves, thin heels, patent leather and gorgeous detailing. The experimental shoes are as extravagant as can be. What propelled the label to the forefronts of the fashion field was the introduction of the iconic Louboutin red soles, a unique touch that distinguish Louboutins from any other shoe.

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It is just too hard to choose between the two leaders of the luxury feminine shoes industry. Jimmy Choo is known for its glamour, Louboutin for its groundbreaking traits. But both brands exhibit comfort, elegance and above all femininity. Both have revolutionised the world of high heels in their own unique ways. More than competitors, the two labels now complement each other.

The Campaigns

Jimmy Choo: Jimmy Choo adverts are always glamorous, sensual and elegant. The campaigns are simple yet efficient. The label has booked Terry Richardson as its publicity photographer for many seasons now, and the result is always sensational!

Louboutin: With campaigns that are just as avant-garde as its designs, Louboutin always reveals publicities that can only be described as works of art. After a summer campaign focused on nature and outdoor scenes, Peter Lippman shot the Autumn/Winter 2009-2010 campaign for the label that slightly resembled an eighteenth century painting.

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While we salute the boldness and audacity of Christian Louboutin, we’re not crazy about the cold atmosphere of its publicities. On the other hand, we love the provocative and glam campaigns for Jimmy Choo.

Collaborations

Jimmy Choo: After breathing new life into the famous rubber Wellington boots, Jimmy Choo opted for high street and joined forces with H&M. The collection that will soon be available in stores features sexy heels at prices making the label accessible to everyone. As well as decking us out in thigh-high boots and stilettos, the British label has also treated us to handbags and ready-to-wear clothing. Even our boys can benefit from the star shoemaker, as Jimmy has also released a men’s line of ready-to-wear fashion, accessories and shoes. The shoe giant has shown us that he also he has a big heart, having just collaborated with the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

Louboutin: Christian Louboutin regularly adds to his collaborations tally, never failing to please. Last spring, he designed a capsule collection honouring Marie Antoinette, in collaboration with embroiderer Jean-Francois Lesage. Not terribly wearable but beautifully eccentric, the eighteenth century-inspired heels sold out in the blink of an eye. This autumn, Louboutin made our mouths water with its team-up with Ladurée. In addition to creating his own macaroons, he also designed the commercial boxes. Recently, the shoe expert designed a champagne box in partnership with Piper Heidsieck. Louboutin is everywhere!

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Although we loved the Louboutin macaroons, they weren’t quite Jimmy Choo fro H&M! The latter has undeniably been the fashion event of the year. Naturally, Jimmy won this part of the competition hands down.

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Although we love both types of shoes, our heart lies with Jimmy Choo. More glamorous than its French competitor, Jimmy Choo will soon be even more accessible to the public when its H&M line is released. We hope the collection will live up to expectations so that we too can finally own our very own Jimmy Choos!

Who gets your vote? Jimmy Choo or Louboutin?

Even those who haven’t heard of Christian Louboutin have seen his shoes.

They’re marked by his trademark red sole, the result of a lucky experiment with a Mary Jane and a bottle of nail polish many years ago.

Now he’s the world-renowned designer of haute heels favored by the rich and famous. Cate Blanchett, a die-hard fan, donned a pair of Louboutin’s 4-inch silver stilettos for this year’s Oscars, despite being pregnant. Oprah so adores her Louboutins that she wore a flawlessly unscuffed pair during a recent interview with “freegans,” people who refuse to pay for anything, let alone an $800 pair of heels.

“Owning his shoes is just a wonderful wink for a woman,” says Louboutin’s friend and frequent collaborator, designer Diane von Furstenberg. “It’s just a very fun thing for a woman to do.”

On Monday, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology opens “Sole Desire,” an exhibition of the designer’s work with pairs of shoes culled from the school’s collection and from Louboutin’s own archive.

But just because he has become, literally, a museum piece, don’t think that Louboutin’s characteristic mix of sex, style and humor is about to be shelved.

“In designing shoes for myself,” he says on the phone from Paris, “I’m not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I’m just not thinking of clothes at all. I’m always thinking of a naked woman, actually.”

Naked women, as it happens, were one of the designer’s first inspirations. In interviews, he’s described his formative years with a mixture of vice and high society that could be Dickensian if it wasn’t so utterly French.

Born in 1963, he was barely tall enough to see over the bar counter when he began roaming the storied nightlife of 1970s Paris and ogling the dancers in cabarets. “His passion for dancing and showgirls increasingly disrupted his schoolwork,” reads one passage from his online bio.

He freelanced for design houses as famous as Chanel and Yves Saint-Laurent before netting a gig with footwear specialist Roger Vivier in 1988. Vivier was some 40 years his senior, and working with the master taught Louboutin, as Louboutin would later say, that “shoe design was a real métier” — in other words, his dream job.

His fascination with the stiletto ­started early. Fashion legend dictates that as a teenager, Louboutin was strolling through Paris when he noticed a sign prohibiting high heels in the Museum of Oceanic Art, lest they scratch the floors.

In 1992, he opened his first boutique in Paris and filled it with heels so dangerously pointy they verged on scandalous.