Strippers and synchronised swimmers — what happened at Christian Louboutin's dazzlingly camp Paris show

Have you considered taking a dip successful your stilettos?

Christian Louboutin, who connected Friday evening lit up Paris Fashion Week with specified a dazzling show of campness adjacent Emily In Paris was outdone, suggested arsenic much, kitting retired the French Olympic creator swimming squad successful his caller “Miss Z” red-bottom shoes for a amusement rather dissimilar the others this season.

Taking implicit the vast, creation deco Piscine Molitor, guests counting Tom Daley, Daphne Guinness and Cole Sprouse braved the splash arsenic they took their waterside-seats. They looked onto the 33-metre agelong pool, dressed up astatine 1 extremity with a achromatic signifier beforehand implicit with 15 glowing reddish windows and a immense brace of turquoise heels (which doubled arsenic a slide). It was titled “Paris is Louboutining”, a play connected the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning which captured New York’s Downton queer shot country — and it was a country to behold.

The amusement — determination betwixt a performance and a cabaret — opened with smoke, screams, and a fireman portion tease. Later, it was the awesome regular by synchronised swimmers, choreographed by Spanish manager Blanca Li, successful their two-tone, fuschia and bluish cossies and pop-shade, metallic heels (green, silver, blue, golden — you sanction it) that were astir transfixing, shooting their feet supra the water, twisting, turning, and dunking each successful well-heeled harmony.

By the finale, bubbles had filled the room, American vocalist LP blared into the microphone, and Mr Louboutin himself had near his spot to sprout down the shoe-slide into the water. There was a tangible fabulousness, and the country revelled successful it — a invited intermission from the seriousness that has different dominated Paris this season, arsenic gossip astir incoming and exiting originative directors astatine the apical houses boils over.

Louboutin enlisted the assistance of lensman David LaChapelle to creation nonstop the event, and explains: “When I thought of doing thing with creator swimming, I benignant of immediately, without adjacent closing my eyes, knew that it would travel with agleam colours. One idiosyncratic comes to my caput [when I deliberation of colour] — it's David LaChapelle.”

“The 2 of us, we cognize that nary 1 enhances a brace of shoes amended than dancers. It becomes not conscionable a brace of shoes, but it changes the mode you walk, the assemblage language, the mode you're going to move. The question fixed to shoes is the champion erstwhile it's attached to dancers,” helium continued.

He was acceptable connected hosting it astatine the Molitor, designed by Lucien Pollet successful 1929, due to the fact that “it’s an important excavation successful presumption of show — it's each based connected a beauteous yellowish mixed with a beauteous benignant of mean bluish — but besides successful presumption of history. In fact, it was the archetypal excavation successful Paris which was by the stream wherever women were successful bikinis.”

Certainly this spectacle, a Willy Wonka’s cocoa mill for fashionistas, volition spell down arsenic its ain section successful Molitor’s books.