Christian Louboutin jacks up the artistic edge of their
Fall 2011 lookbook with an assemblage of photos that reenacts iconic figures from Renaissance paintings. Be it sitting atop a luscious fruit
platter or held reverently by James McNeill Whistler’s mother, Louboutin’s edgy heels – and bags – are
on full display behind the photographic lens of Peter Lippman. Besides heralding the theme of ‘the power of femininity’, the shoot has another more straightforward message – that Louboutin’s
creations fit comfortably within the world of art.

Tootsie ankle boot with Whistler’s mother (reenacted from James McNeill Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist’s Mother)

Marquise
with Artemis shoulder bag (re-enacted from Jean-Marc Nattiers’ The Portrait of Marquise d’Antin)

Magdalen stares pensively at Louboutin’s Puck bootie (re-enacted from George de la Tour’s
Magdalen and the Flame)

Girl
with Halte heel (re-enacted from Jean Baptiste Camille Corot’s Portrait of a
Girl)

8 Mignon strappy
sandal atop a fruit platter (re-enacted from Francisco de Zurburan’s Saint Dorothy of Caesarea)  

The Catalina clutch bag and golden-spiked
Pigalilli heel rest comfortably on Elizabeth’s lap (re-enacted from Francois Clouet’s Elizabeth of
Austria)

Louboutin’s fierce black-and-white bootie (reeacted from Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse)