A Louboutin summer in Monaco

Summer 2022 in Monaco will be dedicated to Christian Louboutin, the shoe designer famous around the world for his red-soled court shoes.  The work and imagination of this central figure from the fashion world will be presented at the Grimaldi Forum.

Following exhibitions devoted to Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and Alberto Giacometti, the new big art event of the summer in Monaco will focus on contemporary designer Christian Louboutin. The first chapter, Christian Louboutin, L’Exhibition[niste] (Christian Louboutin: The Exhibition[ist]), which was presented in Paris in 2020, has been completely reimagined by the curator, Olivier Gabet, Director of the Paris Museum of Decorative Arts.

The designer has also recounted how he discovered, through the collections of the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, that fashion, the arts and oceanography are all integral parts of the Principality’s DNA. And he was entrusted by the Princess of Hanover with the artistic direction of the Rose Ball in 2022, which was held in aid of the Princess Grace Foundation with a “Return to the 20s” theme.

This exhibition, which explores both Louboutin’s love of dance and his fascination with the ocean world, not to mention the influence of Warhol’s pop art or the photographic genius of Helmut Newton (another regular visitor to the Principality), occupies more than 2,000 m² of the Grimaldi Forum.