A Mood Board to A Million Pairs of Shoes …

On a large wall in his light-filled Paris studio is a mood board filled with pictures and ideas that inspire the world’s most famous shoemaker.

Expelled from school at the age of 16, Cristian Louboutin began his career in shoes just two years later.

Branching out on his own, he opened his first store in Paris in 1992 and is now known the world over for making some of the most stylish high-fashion footwear.

From being kicked out of school to making over one million pairs of shoes a year suggests that not only does he know more than a thing or two about shoes and the people who wear them but that he’s also an inspired genius at heart.

But where does this footwear genius get his inspiration?

Like all of us, he needs little sparks of motivation and ideas which propel him on his creative journey …

Hence his mood board, which is regularly updated with fresh ideas.

Surely something all of us can identify with as we search for inspiration which seems so tantalisingly out of reach.

If you’d like a sounding board when you are planning your next brochure or revamping your website I’m on hand for a chat about anything to do with Print or Web Design.

Stay safe.

Alec