This month icon takes to the runways for Paris Fashion Week
Christian Louboutin High heels, patent leather and pure attitude: this is the shoemaker who sells glamour at $800 a pair.
icon meets Christian Louboutin at the Paris atelier where he carves out soles for sirens. From designing shoes for show girls at the Folies-Bergere aged 16, to heeling the feet of Queen Rania of Jordan, Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow, icon meets a footwear magician and master craftsman.
From Valentino’s chiffon elegance to Christian Louboutin’s cutting-edge stilettos, icon uncovers a world of haute couture and high heels.
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Anna Dello Russo : Later, Myleene meets Anna Dello Russo — fashion blogger, Japanese Vogue editor-at-large and the proud owner of over 4,000 pairs of shoes — to talk about a passion for fashion.
Russo who is known as the “Lady Gaga of Fashion” is followed 20,000 users every day on her prolific fashion blogs Her suite at the Paris Ritz is a billowing closet of clothes filled by the all biggest designer names — Christian Dior, Chanel, Prada, Alexander McQueen … She invites icon in to talk about the fantasy world she inhabits, and why she never wears the same item of clothing twice.
Valentino: “The Last Emperor of the Catwalk,” invites icon into his French chateau to talk haute couture. Valentino Garavani has dressed the stars from Elizabeth Taylor (who gave Valentino his big break in 1961 by wearing one of his dresses to the Rome premiere of “Spartacus”) to Jennifer Lopez and Julia Roberts. His name has become synonymous with elegance.
Leafing through his earliest drawings and showing off the dresses which have crowned him on red carpets and catwalks, he talks about the most iconic pieces of his career. icon goes to Rome to meet the creative directors who have taken over the house of Valentino since his retirement in 2008. What is his legacy and what will they bring to the empire?
Plus, Antoinetta, the seamstress who worked with Valentino for decades, talks about the making of a true Valentino garment — the stitching, the fabrics, the cuts.
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