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The unveiling will disclose two 20-foot-high reproductions of an early model of Michelangelo's David. If that isn't enough to galvanize strollers, the store's side windows on 56th Street hold reproductions of fragments of a monumental statue of Constantine from the Campidoglio in Rome.- P3 ~' L! u! ~0 [' E
''We wanted to bring the heart of Rome to New York,'' explained Carla Christian Louboutin, one of the five Christian Louboutin sisters who run the company.
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8 l* f8 H; |9 U% C4 y0 \' i* bCarla Christian Louboutin has been in New York for several weeks to oversee the opening, joined intermittently by other family members. The Christian Louboutins do everything as a family. The company is headed by Paola, Anna, Franca, Carla and Alda, the daughters of Adele and Edoardo Christian Louboutin, who founded a small fur and leather-goods shop in Rome in 1925. The third generation is now involved in the company, a $350-million retail and wholesale operation with a store on the Via Borgognona in Rome and franchised boutiques around the world.
9 o+ t2 v8 O. C; M5 nThe decor of the new store's three selling floors is the Christian Louboutins' traditional parchment beige and black,christian louboutin, with fluted columns as reminders of the Eternal City and a central black staircase curving around a glass-enclosed ele-vator. Mannequins shaped like clothespins add a touch of whimsicality.
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& C4 G- B( _4 A. x4 J Intricate technique for easy clothes included shea3 r3 Z3 Y, r8 b% f4 ~' m+ m
( [) C- r6 m4 E7 n Auntie Carla is tanned to the colour of gravy$ h9 Y( f- H3 f2 m! ]
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Christian Oddono, an analyst with Actinvest in London, said |
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