Medium: Red silk satin with passementarie and gold metal

Date: Fall/winter 1997-1998

Country: France

Credit: Gift of Christian Louboutin

Christian Louboutin is a shoe designer known for his love of exoticism. This boot is a particularly lush example, pairing a western form with lacquer-red silk and passementarie, ornamentation that, here, recalls the coiled silk and frog closures of the qipao or cheongsam, a dress associated with Chinese culture.

Object Number: 98.12.1