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The Business of Fashion

Fashion & Beauty, Business, Arts

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Just as he unveils his L'Exhibition[niste] showcase in Paris this week, the luxury footwear designer speaks with BoF’s Editor-in-Chief Imran Amed about transforming his namesake brand from a single-store enterprise into a global success.

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0:00.0	I remember being in the store and saying to a woman,
0:05.0	why do you only wear black?
0:07.0	And she says, I don't like colors.
0:09.0	I say, but look at your nails, look at your lips.
0:11.0	And she's, ah, but it's red, it's different.
0:13.0	What's been the most challenging thing along the way
0:16.0	as you've been building this business?
0:19.0	To really keep the space that I really need,
0:22.6	my freedom and the space for designing.
0:26.6	Why is travel such a big part of your design language?
0:30.6	I think that it's important to be really interested
0:33.6	by other cultures.
0:34.6	Otherwise, it's my way or no way,
0:36.6	and I think it's the worst way to be.
0:41.2	Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the BOF podcast.
0:47.4	This week on Inside Fashion, I sit down with Christiane Lubeutin, whose red-sold high-heel shoes
0:53.0	have made him a famous name all over the world.
0:55.9	This week in Paris, Christian unveiled a very special retrospective of his entire career,
1:01.2	set in a museum not far away from where he grew up in Paris's 12th, Arandesmont.
1:06.0	I talked to him about where that red soul first came from, his design inspirations,
1:10.5	and his views on the current conversations
1:12.7	around cultural appropriation.
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