Boutiques
The list of distributors and location of the stores can be found on the Christian Louboutin Web site. A new ladies boutique has been scheduled to open in Turkey in 2012.
In the spring of 2012,the company also plans to open its first men's store in New York City, boasting over 1,000 square feet of space and conveniently located next to its existing Horatio Street store. From previous experience in his Paris Store, Louboutin claimed that women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them while they try on shoes, hence a separate store.
The first Louboutin Men's Boutique, Christian Louboutin Boutique Homme on Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Paris, opened in the summer of 2012.
| Country | # of Stores | City/Cities | Exact Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 4 | Paris (4) | Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2), Rue du Faubourg St-Honoré, Rue de Grenelle |
| United States of America | 10 | New York City (3), Las Vegas (2), Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, Dallas, Miami, Chicago | Washington Street, Madison Avenue and Horatio Street in New York City, Caesars Palace and The Palazzo, Las Vegas, Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Highland Park Village in Dallas, Design District in Miami, Oak Street in Chicago |
| United Kingdom | 3 | London (3) | Motcomb Street (Original), Mount Street, Dover Street (Men's) |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | Dubai (2) | Mall of the Emirates, Dubai Mall |
| Kuwait | 1 | Kuwait City | Salhiya Complex |
| Vietnam | 1 | Ho Chi Minh City | Dong Khoi Street |
| Bahrain | 1 | Manama | City Center Manama |
| Lebanon | 1 | Beirut | Beirut Souks |
| Russia | 4 | Moscow (3), Saint Petersburg | Malaya Bronnaya Street (the original), Petrovka Street, Stoleshnikov Lane, Bolshaya Konyushennaya Ulitsa |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | Riyadh, Jeddah | Kingdom Centre-Riyadh, Al Khayyat Center-Jeddah |
| Singapore | 1 | Singapore City | Ngee Ann City |
| Brazil | 2 | Brasília, São Paulo | Iguatemi São Paulo, Iguatemi Brasília, |
| Australia | 1 | Sydney | Westfield Sydney |
| China | 5 | Hong Kong (3), Shanghai, Beijing | Lan Street, Hong Kong; The Gateway, Hong Kong, Canton Road; Shanghai Centre, Sanlitun Road, |
| Denmark | 1 | Copenhagen | Grønnegade 6 |
| Indonesia | 1 | Jakarta | Plaza Indonesia |
| Japan | 4 | Tokyo (2), Nagoya, Osaka | Ginza District in Tokyo, Shinsaibashi, Osaka |
| Spain | 1 | Madrid | Calle Claudio Coello |
| Switzerland | 2 | Geneva, Zurich | Rue Du Rhone, Wühre 7 |
| India | 1 | New Delhi | Emporio Mall |
| Qatar | 1 | Doha | Villaggio Mall |
| Turkey | 1 | Istanbul | Abdi İpekçi Street |
| Italy | 1 | Rome | Piazza San Lorenzo |
Christian Louboutin Miami is located on 40th Street in the Design District of Miami, Florida. Louboutin chose to open a store in Miami because of the mix of businesses and the small urban scale, and because of his obvious following there. During Miami Basel art fair when the store opened in 2009, he said, "You don't get this with Europeans—but Americans actually come into my office in Paris to meet me, and a lot of those people are from Miami." The boutique stocks Louboutin's most colorful, strappy, precarious styles, on account of the subtropical climate and the fact that, Louboutin says, "people barely walk in the street."
The 2,400-square-foot space was designed by Eric Clough and 212box. Above a steel awning shaped like a Louboutin shoe in profile, with a red underside to boot, pink orchids sprout from the coral-stone facade. Still more orchids project from a wall in the entry gallery. Pantyhose have been recycled by Dutch artist Madeleine Berkhemer into a multi-colored sculpture that stretches over the empty concrete floor with some of Louboutin’s signature shoes dangling in the overhead tangle of nylon "like insects trapped in a psychedelic spider’s web." This L-shape space wraps two sides of a rectangular volume clad almost entirely in one-way mirror: a box that contains the merchandise for sale while allowing people who've just come in the front door to "witness other people falling in love with the shoes," Clough says.
The inside areas in the store are defined by lush red carpeting. Blue, blown-glass chandeliers hang from the ceilings. Hieroglyphics, symbols and Braille are carved onto wooden Codebox Tiles that line some of the store's interior walls. hiding the words of a poem by contemporary American poet Lyn Hejinian in plain sight, in the etched wooden tiles lining the gallery wall behind the orchids. "This is the way I / Want to go in and / Out of heaven... / Windows full at 5pm / My skull a place / Except that I think of space as the more exciting," the lines read. These coded tiles appear in many Louboutin stores designed by Clough around the world, including São Paulo, Brazil.
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