Christian Louboutin – Fall 2011: Knockoffs you can live with

Not  your Whistler’s Mother’s shoe? 

Louboutin’s Fall 2011 Ad Campaign is creating a revival of sorts that art teachers and historians would envy – getting people in droves to notice the masters. 

Reportedly shot by Peter Lippmann, the new Look Book features recreations from famous paintings, updated with a little Lou.  The resulting photos are beautiful, with a little “Where’s Waldo?” thrown in.  Although a similar feel pops up now an again (the old “models with ballgowns and lions is back – I still have my 2005 Vogue with Drew Barrymore) this is the first time in memory art is imitating, um, art so specifically. To see originals and the rest of the campaign, click the gallery. Do you have a favorite?

Note: Although many are saying the ‘shoe in the lap portrait’ is Francois Clouet’s “Elizabeth of Austria” ( a headshot) I feel the recreation is closer to Petrus-Paulus Rubens portrait d’Elisabeth de Bourbon (Anne d’Autriche)