LARGE PALM TREES for a LOUBOUTIN evening... IN BIG PUMP

End of Fashion Week 2020 Part. 2... of which Paris Pousse is always a loyal partner!! And a look back at THE most beautiful event of this crazy fashion week… (which we are quite proud of)

Christian Louboutin inaugurated this last Parisian edition by receiving everything in Paris at the Palais de la Porte Dorée. An evening “with great fanfare” celebrating 30 years of creation by the talented shoemaker, who offered an immersion in his universe and his inspirations through the exhibition L'Exhibition(niste) which he also inaugurated on this occasion.

A crazy evening, an incredible exhibition and a completely crazy scenography with magnificent and gigantic palm trees staged by Paris Pousse .

And what could be better for the creator of the famous shoes with red soles (of which Louis XIV and his red heeled shoes would have been a big fan) than Royal Palms!! More precisely, a good fifteen MAXI Veitchia Adonidia more than 4m high... (150kg / 2.5m wingspan spread fins... beautiful babies - or rather remarkable subjects - as they are called in the trade;)

Originally from Costa Rica, repatriated by cargo ship and acclimatized to our latitudes in a local nursery... for your greatest pleasure too, because we decided to reference it in the catalog following the many adoption requests received!! To find out more about the one we baptized LOUIS (of course we hesitated with CHRISTIAN; ) find his file here .

Rare but very easy to maintain, this sumptuous palm tree (a bit chilly - below 18°C ​​it doesn't like it) will also delight you if you ever feel like putting one in your living room!!

To have a (small) life-size glimpse of it... head to the Palais de la Porte Dorée to which we have decided to donate it, in the continuity of the work of Patronage of Mr. Louboutin, very attached to this rich place in memories, which saw the birth of inspirations and vocation.

Child of the 12th century having grown up close to the Palace, little Christian used to stroll there with his mother at a time when the place was not yet the Tropical Aquarium and the National Museum of the History of 'Immigration but the Museum of Arts of Africa and Oceania. And it is both the collections housed in these places and the architectural beauty and ornamental richness of the building classified as a Historic Monument, which will have been the creator's first sources of inspiration.

A true jewel of Art Deco architecture built for the Colonial Exhibition of 1931, the Palace will thus be the subject of an ambitious restoration project within a few months. With in particular the highlighting of the bas-reliefs on the facade of the Palace, a masterpiece sculpted by the hand of Alfred-Auguste Janniot, which made a great impression on little Christian in the past, and which will have amply influenced the world Louboutin too.

It is also here that Christian Louboutin saw for the first time a design representing a pump. A sign prohibiting the wearing of stiletto heels (on the precious floor of the Palace) which marked the young assiduous visitor to the museum! So much so that he drew and redesigned it from an early age without knowing that this image would later become the inspiration for his Pigalle model , the brand's iconic shoe.

Far from being a simple retrospective of his career, the exhibition is an opportunity to discover the journey of a creator inspired by art and cultures in all their forms, with special mention to the rich and surprising scenography. That Paris Pousse was very happy to illustrate vegetally during the inauguration evening (red heart smiley)

Royal Palm - LOUIS

“Christian Louboutin L’Exhibition(niste)”, Palais de la Porte Dorée , until July 26, 2020 – 293 avenue Daumesnil – 75012 Paris www.palais-portedoree.fr

Find out more about the upcoming renovations of the Palais de la Porte Dorée.