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CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN SET TO LAUNCH BEAUTY COLLECTION

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Can’t afford his iconic
red soles? Fret no more as the French shoe designer is putting plans in place
to launch a full beauty collection. So if you don’t have any of his shoe
designs in your collection, maybe you should consider wearing a Louboutin
lipstick instead. Many predict this will be far less cheap than his iconic
shoes which he began designing 21 years ago. To be called Christian Louboutin Beauté, the cosmetic
line will co-produce with New York-based beauty company, Batallure Beauty, and
is expected to hit shelves later next year. Apparently, this is no new idea. 
The shoemaker has been approached by companies over the years about delving
into beauty. Their collective aim has always been to have his red soles
transported into nail lacquer and lipstick. Yet to make a public statement
about his latest venture, Louboutin, however, hinted rather vaguely that the
collection would be very ‘constructed, quite different and unexpected’.

Inspired
by the bust of Nefertiti that is housed at the Neues Museum in Berlin, the
famous shoe designer once said that the Nefertiti bust is the most beautiful
thing, with perfect beauty and make-up. He recalls that he once stayed an hour
just looking at the bust.Robin Burns, the co-founder of Batallure Beauty, who
has been a long-time Louboutin fan, and who owns more than a dozen pairs of his
shoes, said she saw an opportunity collaborating with Louboutin. Being the
designer behind Chanel’s iconic quilted ballet flats, she said.
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