Nudes collection
For Christian Louboutin, the nude shade is plural, evoking the softness and lightness of skin in all its complexions. It's from this vision that the first Nudes collection was born in 2013: shoes designed to perfectly blend into the skin, extending the line of the leg to the toes and subtly elongating the silhouette. Like an illusion, the Nudes shoe melts into the skin, erasing the boundary between body and object to let the silhouette speak for itself.
The art of illusion
This season, the Nudes collection reveals itself with the Cassia Lace Up, a structured square-toe sandal inspired by the ballet pointe slipper. Crafted from soft crêpe satin and tied with tonal satin ribbons around the ankle that melt into the skin, the sandal is offered in five nude shades. Elevated by the Maison’s signature sculptural stiletto heel, the silhouette enhances a woman’s gait and natural hip movement as though she were dancing en pointe with every step.
Ballet as inspiration
For Christian Louboutin, ballet has always been a source of inspiration. In 1998, he created the Ballet Plate for Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring-Summer Haute Couture show, followed in 2007 by the Ballerina Ultima, imagined in collaboration with David Lynch. A demanding, poetic, and codified physical language that the Maison continues to reinterpret today through an inclusive, feminine, and bold lens—transforming ballet into a powerful mode of expression.
