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.