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JOE LAMAR'S DAD SPEAKS OUT ABOUT THE KARDASIANS

Odom's father Joe has spoken out on his son’s fall from grace and in a sensational allegation, he’s pointing the finger firmly at the Kardashian family.

In a no-holds barred interview with RadarOnline.com, Joe rips into each member of the reality TV family and claims marrying Khloe was the worst mistake 33-year-old Lamar ever made!

Among Joe’s amazing claims are:

*   The Kardashians have cursed his boy and ruined his basketball career;

*   The reality show put too much pressure on Lamar, forcing him to turn to drugs; and

*   Kris Jenner is an “an evil b*tch” and dismisses Kim as a “porn star”.

Speaking from his home in Marina Del Rey, Calif., Joe reckons his NBA star son has been “cursed: ever since he became a member of the Kardashian clan when he married Khloe, 29, in 2009.

The former post office worker thinks Lamar needs to dump his wife and start life afresh as a single man if he wants any chance of beating his drug addiction.

Bizarrely, Joe also hints that it’s the Kardashians that have caused his son to fall by the wayside and could be the ones giving him drugs.“I heard Kim say they don’t have crackheads in their family. That *issed me off. Look at where she came from. We don’t want porno stars in our family,” adds Joe.

Joe reckons the reality TV show Khloe And Lamar ended up taking a heavy toll on Lamar and was the reason he turned to drugs.

He said: “The reality show was a curse because it put too much of his business in the limelight. That show messed him up because to me his basketball should come first. It took a lot out of him to perform for his job and in that show.

When asked if the Kardashians take drugs, Joe said: “I blame Kris in particular, she’s been through a lot of stuff herself. She’s no Cinderella. I can’t really say if the Kardashians are doing drugs, but my son would never use hard drugs. I can’t pinpoint right now who’s giving it him, but I’m going to investigate. The Kardashians haven’t been a good influence on my son.”

He adds, “They don’t give a f*ck about my son. It’s more about the damage they do to the Kardashian brand. They brought him down. He’d be better off without them. Let him go, get his life together.”

Joe believes the towering ex-Los Angeles Clippers star has been controlled by the family and not allowed to be his own man.

Joe says: “I love my son dearly, but my advice to him would be: Leave the drugs alone. If he is abusing drugs, he’s got to stay straight and get his life together. Go into rehab. If it is crack he is taking, he’s got to get help.

“They’ve got to get him treatment. Nobody’s perfect. I would like him to get his act together. If something’s wrong he’s got to man up and talk about what’s going on with him.”

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Nigeria: Islamic and secular laws clash; . Nigeria’s secular and Islamic laws clashed when a senator notorious for marrying a 14-year-old filibustered a vote to amend the constitution by insisting that a girl child comes of age when she marries, not at 18. Enraged activists are demanding the senate revisit the vote, asking how a known pedophile could get away with subverting the country’s constitution. (Sunday Alamba/Associated Press) By Associated Press,  Published: TUESDAY, JULY 23, 10:20 AM LAGOS, Nigeria — Many Nigerians are enraged, wondering how a senator notorious for marrying a 14-year-old girl can use Shariah law as an excuse to filibuster a constitutional amendment that has sparked a debate on the age of consent for girls. Since the country’s secular and Islamic laws clashed in the upper house of Parliament last week, concerned citizens are using petitions, protests and social networks to demand the Senate revisit the issue. “Every Nigerian should bow his or her head in shame because instead of crushing the head of the lustful beast that seeks to fornicate with our children, to steal their virtues and to destroy their future, what the Senate did the other day was to compromise with and cater for the filthy appetites and godless fantasies of a bunch of child molesters and sexual predators,” Femi Fani-Kayode, a traditional chief and former Cabinet minister, fumed in a letter to The Vanguard newspaper Monday. The vote was on an amendment to set the age when Nigerians can renounce their citizenship, but it has wider implications because it suggests when a girl is old enough to be married. Currently, the constitution says only that a person must be of “full age” to renounce citizenship. The Senate had voted to approve an amendment to set the age at 18, to bring the clause in line with other laws setting the age of consent for marriage and voting. But, after the vote was counted and against Senate rules and procedures, Sen. Sani Ahmed Yerima opposed the age limit, saying it goes against Islamic law. “By Islamic law any woman that is married, she is of age, so if you now say she is not of age then it means that you are going against Islamic law,” declared Yerima. In the second vote forced by Yerima, several Muslim senators who had voted “yes” to set the age at 18, changed their minds, and the amendment did not get the two-thirds majority needed to pass, according to Sen. Tenyi Abaribe, the Senate spokesman. So now, a Nigerian male must be 18 to renounce his citizenship but a girl married at 14, like one of Yerima’s wives, can do it at a much younger age. The vote applied only to citizenship, Abaribe emphasized. Nigerians are seeing it as a confrontation with other laws that dictate a girl should not marry until she is 18 and, coming from a man known for marrying children, as a gateway challenge to those laws. “The government needs to stick with the age of consent being 18 and to work with communities in recognizing that a child is a child,” said Iheoma Obibi of the Nigerian Feminist Forum. Her forum has lodged a protest along with the Gender and Constitutional Reform Network, and other groups including advocates using the Twitter hash tag #ChildNOTBride. Nobody knows quite how many thousands of girls are forced into marriage here — some say more than 50 percent of girls in the Muslim north — often sold for a bride price in mainly poor and rural communities. Yerima is infamous for his marriage to a 14-year-old Egyptian girl in 2010, when he was 49. He had divorced a 17-year-old whom he married when she was 15, to comply with Islamic law that allows a maximum of four wives at a time. Then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rebuked Yerima for “child slavery,” and the State Department’s 2012 report on human rights complained that Nigerian authorities did nothing to prosecute Yerima. In a public outcry at the time, activists demanded that prosecutors investigate and Yerima be forced out of Parliament. Instead, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons questioned Yerima but said it lacked evidence to charge him. It said Yerima had paid $100,000 for the young bride, the daughter of his Egyptian driver. The government agency recommended the justice minister and attorney general investigate Yerima for violating Nigeria’s 2003 Child Rights Act. “But nothing was done, he has got away with it,” said women’s right activist Obibi. She pointed to the horrendous statistics that show a high percentage of young girls suffer damage in child birth, with maternity wards in the mainly Muslim north filled with young mothers whose vaginas, uteruses and anal passages have ruptured. According to the U.N. Children’s Fund, Nigeria has 2 percent of the world’s underage marriages but 10 percent of its victims of vesicovaginal fistula, which leaves the girls incontinent, dripping urine and feces. Such girls are often divorced and abandoned, left to beg on the streets or turn to prostitution, Obibi said. Dupe Killa, a human resources manager and mother of two girls, started an online petition at #ChildNOTBride after the Senate vote. When the petition was oversubscribed within hours, she decided to take to the streets to get signatures and has won support, including from the country’s influential Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness. Protesters handed out #ChildNOTBride flyers featuring the silhouette of a girl with pig tails and bows set in a protective red circle. The petition urges the Senate and National Assembly to stop “loopholes within which Nigeria can continue to discriminate against half the population (i.e. females).” Yerima was instrumental in introducing Shariah law to Nigeria’s nine northern states in 2000 and 2001, when he was governor of Zamfara state. Another three states where Muslims form a plurality have since instituted Shariah as a substitute for Western-style family law for Muslims wishing to use it. The other 25 states are governed by secular law. Shariah is interpreted differently by scholars and laws differ according to a country’s history and culture. Fani-Kayode, the former minister, said most Muslim countries have banned child marriage and rape. Nigeria’s population, at 160 million the biggest in Africa, is almost equally divided between a mainly Muslim north and majority Christian south. While the religions coexist peacefully in most of the country, there are frequent and bloody clashes between militant Muslims and Christians in the north. Tens of thousands of been killed over the years, and churches and mosques razed. ___

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PRINCE WILLIAMS and KATE MIDDLETON welcome newborn baby boy on July 22, 2013 at 2:32 PM, updated July 22, 2013 at 2:38 PM Prince William and his wife, the former Kate Middleton, have welcomed an eight pound, six ounce baby boy. The birth was announced at 4:24 p.m. London time today.  The baby was born in the private Lindo wing at St. Mary's Hospital in London. He will be third in line to the throne behind his grandfather, Prince Charles, and his father. Kate was reportedly taken to the hospital around 6 a.m. local time today. The baby is the first for William and Kate, who were married in April 2011.

TIMELINE OF KATE MIDDLETON AND PRINCE WILLIAM'S RELATIONSHIP

KATE MIDDLETON IN LABOUR: Royal baby due almost 12 years after she met Prince William: Timeline of their relationship Parents-to-be: Kate and William will welcome their first child this month Splash By Andy Rudd  |  22 Jul 2013 12:52 The royal baby is almost with us and to celebrate Kate finally going into labour Mirror.co.uk takes a look back at the events leading up to today. September 2001: Prince William and Kate Middleton meet at St Andrews University, where they are studying art history. Christmas 2003: The pair reportedly become a couple after sharing a house together with two friends. November 16, 2010: William and Kate's engagement is announced by Clarence House. April 29, 2011: The pair wed at Westminster Abbey. William is made the Duke of Cambridge by the Queen and Kate becomes the Duchess of Cambridge. December 3, 2012: St James's Palace announce that the Duchess is pregnant and being treated in hospital for severe morning sickness, known as hyperemesis gravidarum. December 4, 2012: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg confirms the Government has received final consent from all Commonwealth realms to press ahead with a Bill ending discrimination against women in the succession to the British throne. December 5, 2012: Prank callers from an Australian radio station pretending to be the Queen trick a nurse at the King Edward VII's Hospital in London into revealing information about Kate's condition. December 6, 2012: The Duchess is discharged from hospital after three nights, telling reporters she is feeling "much better". December 6, 2012: The Prince of Wales says he is "thrilled" that the Duchess is pregnant, adding: "It's a very nice thought to become a grandfather in my old age." December 7, 2012: Nurse Jacintha Saldanha who took the initial prank call and put it through to another colleague is found dead in a suspected suicide. December 9, 2012: William pulls out of attending the British Military Tournament so he can spend time with Kate as she recuperates. December 16, 2012: Kate makes her first public appearance since leaving hospital by presenting the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year award to cyclist Bradley Wiggins. December 25, 2012: Instead of going to Sandringham on Christmas Day, Kate and William stay with the Middleton family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire. January 11, 2013: Kate and William attend the unveiling of her first official portrait at the National Portrait Gallery. January 14: St James's Palace announces that the baby is due in July and that Kate is feeling better. She is now in her second trimester and has had her 12-week scan. February 5: Kate and William holiday on the Caribbean island of Mustique with the Middletons, reportedly staying in a £19,000-a-week villa. February 12: Italian gossip magazine Chi uses photos of Kate in a bikini on holiday. St James's Palace say they are "disappointed" at the "clear breach" of privacy. Other foreign publications follow suit. February 19: Kate carried out her first engagement in five weeks and visited the Hope House addiction treatment centre in south London, showing signs of a small baby bump and admitting she was nervous about giving birth. Meanwhile, debate raged when novelist Hilary Mantel described the Duchess as "gloss varnished" with a "perfect plastic smile". Prime Minister David Cameron stepped into the row and branded the comments "completely wrong". March 2: Kate and William travel to Switzerland for a friend's wedding in the ski resort of Arosa. March 5: Kate apparently lets slip that she is expecting a daughter on a solo visit to Grimsby. Accepting a teddy bear from a member of the public, she apparently replied: "Oh, is this for our d...? Thank you so much." Although other footage suggest she said "Is this for us? Aw" instead. March 17 - Kate tells a soldier at a St Patrick's Day parade that they do not know the sex, but says she would like a boy and William a girl. March 19 - William and Kate visit the headquarters of Child Bereavement UK, exchanging hugs with bereaved parents. They also meet TV cook Mary Berry. March 20 - Kate gets given a "Baby on board" badge when she joins the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Baker Street underground station to mark the 150th anniversary of the Tube. March 22 - Kate visits a Scout camp in the Lake District in snowy conditions. April 4 - Kate reveals she has taken up knitting ahead of the birth during a two day visit to Scotland and reveals the baby is due in mid July. April 5 - Kate and William join the Prince of Wales at Dumfries House in Ayrshire where Kate is given a "Princess Catherine" doll by a wellwisher. April 19 - Kate chooses three more patronages - SportsAid, the Natural History Museum and Place2Be, a mental health charity for schoolchildren. April 21 - The Duchess showed off her baby bump, looking obviously pregnant for the first time, at the National Review of Queen's Scouts at Windsor Castle. April 23 - Kate's bump was even clearer under her a £1,065 blue patterned silk Erdem dress by Sophia Visconti as she visited Willows Primary School on the deprived Wythenshawe estate in Greater Manchester. In her third speech as a royal she said "cycle of addiction needs to be broken" as she launched a school drugs and alcohol counselling programme. April 24 - Kate, in a duck-egg blue empire-line Emilia Wickstead cocktail dress, attended an evening reception at the National Portrait Gallery in honour of The Art Room charity and gave a short speech on the power of art to change people's lives. April 25 - It emerges that France's Closer magazine and a photographer have been placed under formal criminal investigation following the publication of topless pictures of Kate in September 2012. April 26 - Kate, William and Prince Harry get given their own wands on a tour of Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, where the Harry Potter films were made. April 29 - The Duchess spends part of her second wedding anniversary celebrating Children's Hospice Week with a visit to Naomi House Children's Hospice in Hampshire. May 11 - Kate and William attend William van Cutsem and Rosie Ruck Keene's wedding in Oxfordshire. May 12 - It is reported that Kate's baby is due on July 13. May 22 - Kate attends a garden party at Buckingham Palace. June 4 - William and Kate return to their wedding venue when they join the royal family for a service marking the 60th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation at Westminster Abbey. June 13 - Kate, in a dalmatian print coat, carries out her final solo engagement before going off on maternity leave when she names a new cruise liner - Royal Princess - in Southampton. June 15 - The eight months pregnant Duchess makes her last public appearance before the birth at the Trooping the Colour parade. June 19 - It is confirmed Kate is planning to give birth at the private Lindo wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington. She is hoping for a natural birth but does not know if the baby is a girl or a boy. June 22 - Kate stays at home while William attends the wedding of his close friend Thomas van Straubenzee. Feb 19th: Kate debuted her tiny bump for the first time at four months but no maternity wear was needed as she stepped out in this £298 MaxMara wrap dress March 5th: On a chilly day in Grimsby she kept warm and covered her patterned Great Plains dress with this £369 chestnut brown wool Hobbs Celeste coat March 17th: THE Duchess celebrated St Patrick's Day with an emerald green Emilia Wickstead dress-coat, recycled from an earlier engagement, teamed with a John Lock hat March 19th: AT five months, Kate kept it simple on a visit to Buckinghamshire with a £45 Topshop black contrast collar dress with a slightly pricier £560 cream coat by Goat April 4th: A WHIRLWIND day in Glasgow called for a sturdy outfit, so happy Kate opted for a £425 blue and grey checked woollen coat by UK label Moloh April 21st: EVEN at six months Kate continued to shun maternity wear as she wore this £1,750 Mulberry frayed coat in mint cotton tweed at Windsor Castle April 23rd: THE Duchess courted controversy by picking this £1,065 Erdem frock, with a bold Visconti print, for a visit to a deprived area of Manchester April 24th: ON a pleasantly warm spring day, Kate wore this pastel blue creation by favourite designer Emilia Wickstead which skimmed her by-now blooming bump April 26th: THIS £38 polka dot maternity dress sold out at Topshop after Kate teamed it with a Ralph Lauren jacket. She wore it again a few weeks later April 29th: ON her second wedding anniversary Kate picked a £380 bright coral coat by Tara Jarmon over a peach dress by an unnamed "independent dressmaker" May 22nd: KATE, now seven months pregnant, wore this bright £1,285 Emilia Wickstead coat-dress, with a Jane Corbett hat, for the Queen's first summer garden party June 4th: ON her first visit to Westminster Abbey since her wedding, Kate chose an understated lace peach Jenny Packham dress and a matching Jane Taylor hat June 13th: Kate made the daring choice to wear this £169 Dalmation print coat from Hobbs with a Jane Taylor hat for her last solo public appearance naming a ship

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Kim Kardashian and her "beautiful daughter" has left the hospital where she gave birth nearly a week ago. A source tells PEOPLE the new mom slipped away early Friday in the middle of the night. But why did she stay so long at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles? "The baby is doing great and has been gaining weight just like her doctor was hoping," a source tells PEOPLE of the infant, whose name was revealed on Thursday night to be North West. "The baby has had no problems at all." Kardashian, 32, was rushed to Cedars-Sinai June 14 due to complications and went in to early labor, which could explain why she remained in her hospital room for a week. "If the baby was a little bit pre-term then you want to watch the baby a little bit longer," says Dr. Shelena Lalji, resident OB/GYN expert for AestheticTV.com. "You just want to make sure the baby is completely independent and doesn't need any kind of additional respiratory help or monitoring." Doting father Kanye West did not leave his girlfriend's side, and the trio received a constant flow of visitors bringing cupcakes, gifts and well wishes. "The nurses have had nothing but great things to say about Kim," says the source. "They say Kim has been very sweet and very easy to deal with." Kardashian may not have made any diva demands, but her suite potentially cost over $4,000 per day. "Insurance companies unfortunately want patients to go home as soon as possible," Dr. Jalji says. "But in her case, I am sure that is not an issue."

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's baby girl has arrived! The 32-year-old reality starlet gave birth Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, a source told Confidenti@l. PHOTOS: KIM KARDASHIAN'S WILD MATERNITY STYLE Kim Kardashian has delivered a month earlier than expected. The delivery is reportedly coming one month earlier than expected. Sources close to Kardashian told TMZ that "baby and Kim are both in good health. Kim Kardashian shows off her pregnant belly on an episode of 'Kourtney and Kim take Miami.' West shocked fans over New Year's weekend when he announced the two were expecting during a performance at Revel Resort in Atlantic City. He broke the news in song form, singing "Now You Having My Baby" while urging the crowd to congratulate his "baby mom" and that this was the "most amazing thing." RELATED: KRIS JENNER: A KIMYE WEDDING WOULD BE ‘PRIVATE AND SMALLER’ Earlier this month on the season eight premiere of "Keeping up with the Kardashians" it was revealed during one of Kardashian's doctors appointments that she was in fact expecting a girl. This is the first child for Kardashian and West.

Michael Jackson has been accused of being a "paedophile" who abused a young boy from the ages of seven to 14. Choreographer Wade Robson filed legal documents on May 1 asking for money from the Michael Jackson Estate in compensation for childhood molestation at the hands of the late pop star - who died of acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009 - and has now opened up about the alleged abuse. Speaking on the Today show, Wade said he "was scared psychologically and emotionally completely unable and unwilling to understand that it was sexual abuse. "This is not a case of repressed memory. I never forgot one moment of what Michael did to me. "He performed sexual acts on me and forced me to perform sexual acts on him. "It was complete manipulation and brainwashing. He would role-play and train me for these scenarios. "There is no excuse for what he did to me, but he was a troubled man...The image that one presents to the world is not the whole explanation of who someone is. "Michael Jackson was yes, an incredibly talented artist with an incredible gift. He was many things. And he was also a paedophile and a child sexual abuser." While Wade - who was one of the witnesses at Michael's child molestation trial in 2005, and his testimony, along with those of his sister and mother, were said to be instrumental in the 'Billie Jean' star's acquittal - has been called a liar by Michael's friend and family for the new allegations, he insists he is telling the truth. The married father-of-one said: "The idea that I would make all of this up and put my wife, my son, my entire family through this extremely stressful and painful experience all for the sake of money? That's completely incomprehensible. "I've lived in silence and denial for 22 years...In order to fully heal, I have to speak the truth and I have to speak the whole truth."

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Kanye West has finally set a wedding date. After months of will-they-or-won’t of speculation, the couple is going to tie the knot in a lavish wedding in the Los Angeles area right after the birth of their child, an insider close to reality TV’s first family tells Radar exclusively. Kim is set to exchange “I do’s” wearing an “ethereal white wedding dress,” the source said, and wants a location “where they can hear the waves and be married under the moon and stars. “Kim’s choice at the moment is a starlight ceremony in California’s Big Sur,” the insider added, noting that Kanye has signed off on all of the stipulations, as well as signing off on whichever wedding planner she chooses. But don’t think that Kim is going to be making all of the decisions about the wedding — or in this relationship. Kanye has made it completely clear to Kim that he does not want ANY media at the wedding and they will not sell their wedding photos for profit. “Instead, Kanye says they should consider a donation to one of Kim’s charities like the Skin Cancer Foundation, or Mattel Children’s Hospital in a deal around the wedding for a short film,” the insider said. The decision to marry right after the baby is born came after Kim ended her year-and-a-half long battle with ex-husband Kris Humphries. Of course this is all dependent on the paperwork for Kim’s divorce being finalized in time! The insider said the superstar couple have been talking “about marriage for a long time, so it’s not like Kanye is going to propose and they’ll get engaged — its been something they’ve been looking forward to for a while during the divorce. “Now that Kim’s almost a free woman, she wants an immediate wedding — she wants to marry the father of her baby as soon as possible, but the birth must come first.” Besides preparing for the birth and wedding, Kim has also been feverishly looking for a home with three nurseries, keeping Kanye, who’s been working in Paris, in the loop on “every tiny detail.” The insider said that Kim showed Kanye “a folder of houses she’s seen and all her recent scans and medical reports.” “She had a folder for Kanye to take, so he hasn’t missed any of the baby progress or house choices … they’re both getting more and more excited for the baby. The rapper and reality star have been seeing one another since March 2012; news of Kim’s pregnancy leaked during Kanye’s concert at Atlantic City’s Revel Resort in Dec. 2012, when the rapper called Kim “my baby mama” during the show, and proclaimed, “Now you having my baby

DID YOU KNOW THAT Designer Louboutin says that wearing heels is 'possibly orgasmic'? If Christian Louboutin weren’t wearing a gray-and-neon-yellow hoodie, he might disappear into the bric-a-brac that clutters his dimly lit Paris office. There’s a faux-cheetah rug with a decorative head staring up from the floor. A dingy Snoopy doll slouching on the bookshelf behind his desk. A massive painting of nearly naked boxers standing ringside. And a 3-ft.-wide photograph of a naked woman on her back, legs akimbo, writhing in high heels. “Shoes have to seem of sex,” Louboutin says, his sonorous tones bouncing off the creaky wooden floorboards. “It makes part of the identity of my shoes.” Those shoes are notably absent from his office, though they clutter his conversation. “A while ago, I saw this woman arriving in my store in Paris. She was very elegant, very delicate,” he says, folding his hands in his lap and sitting upright to demonstrate her prim posture. “She put on the Pigalle” — a patent-leather pump that most buyers prefer in black with a 5-in. heel. “She walked around and said, ‘It feels great. I look like a slut! I feel like a slut!’” A few hours later, another woman — short skirt, spilling cleavage — picked up the same shoe. “But she said, ‘Oh! I look so chic, so elegant!’” In this tale of two shoppers, what happens between the ears is as important as what happens below the ankles. “Shoes,” Louboutin says, “are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you’re missing.” What he sees in that mirror are straps, studs, fur, glitter and, of course, superhigh heels. Since setting up his first boutique in Paris in 1991, Louboutin — the subject of a retrospective at the Design Museum in London beginning May 1 — has become one of the few household names among shoe designers, surpassing his rivals Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik in global recognition. Kicked out of school at 16, Louboutin, 49, now employs some 500 people around the world. Every year he sells more than 500,000 pairs of mules, lace-up boots and bejeweled heels, each with his signature red sole — amounting to more than $250 million in sales in 2010. His footprint is only growing: in 2012 Louboutin will open stores in 13 more cities, including Sáo Paulo and Istanbul, extending his network of 49 existing stores. Women fork over anywhere from $395 (for the Hola Nina summer sandal) to as much as $6,395 (for the 6.2-in. Daffodile platform heel, covered in Swarovski crystals). “When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude,” he says. “She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.” Consciousness of comfort does not factor into his design process — which is not to say that the Louboutin woman must suffer unduly for her art. “I’m really like a doctor,” he says. “I have my tricks, which makes a thing that is not looking comfortable possibly comfortable.” “A girl wearing Louboutins is instantly more intriguing,” says burlesque star Dita von Teese, who performs only in Louboutins. “It says that she has good taste. It says that she’s not too conservative because that flash of red sole is really something sexual.” Louboutin likes to point out that the arch of a high heel mirrors a woman’s foot position when she orgasms. His style balances ornament and architecture; the clean silhouettes temper aggressive accents like silver spikes, as on the shoe called the Kryptonite, and glittered lettering that spells out S-E-X, as on the shoe simply called Sex. The Guinness features a heel made out of a beer can. The Déjà Vu, a black patent-leather pump, is covered in dozens of googly eyes. The Pesce, an open-toe pump with a fish-head appliqué on its vamp, regurgitates the wearer’s toes. The Anemone, a pink satin heel with a burst of feathers and ribbons at the back, resembles the aftermath of a battle royal between a showgirl and a flamboyant ostrich. Louboutin’s love of color and embellishment stems from growing up in 1970s France, which he remembers as dreary and austere, with anonymous white and gray concrete buildings popping up all over Paris. “There’s nothing I liked visually of the period I was a child,” he says. “There was no dream in it, and nothing sparkled.” His best friend wore colorful dresses from America; classmates taunted her “simply because she was clean.” “There was this big thing of feminism in France, and it was all about wearing no makeup and looking pretty crappy,” he says. “And if you were having heels, you were evil.” He became obsessed with a sign at the Museum of African and Oceanic Art: a high heel with a large red X over it, representing a plea from management to avoid wearing shoes that might harm the flooring. Louboutin studiously avoided school, with his mother’s help. (She wrote sick notes for him that he would dictate.) At age 12, he moved out to live with an older boyfriend. “I was having lunch with my parents, and I was sleeping there sometimes,” he recalls, as if this arrangement were perfectly ordinary. As a teen he danced at Le Palace, the iconic club where Mick Jagger, Loulou de la Falaise and Grace Jones mingled with club kids, whose clothes inspired Thierry Mugler and Yves Saint Laurent. Often young Christian would bring people home — a guy, a girl, guys and girls — in the wee hours of the morning. If his father, a cabinet maker, were away, his mother would insist they take her room. Sometimes he and his friends would sneak into the Folies Bergére — the cabaret where Josephine Baker perfected her danse banane — and snag vacant seats during intermission. After leaving school, Louboutin interned at the Folies Bergére, gluing jewelry on costumes and fetching coffee for the performers. He spent much of his time dreaming up “super fantasy shoes” for the dancers. Some drawings of those ideas landed him a design gig with Charles Jourdan, who created shoes for Christian Dior; that in turn led to a job as an assistant and secretary to Roger Vivier, the “Fabergé of footwear,” who invented the comma heel and the stiletto. But Louboutin’s love of cabaret never left him. Feu, his collaboration with the erotic-cabaret troupe Crazy Horse Paris, runs through May 31 and features original music by David Lynch and Swizz Beatz. “I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage,” he says. “In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.” “Creative people often need time to crank it up or tease it out,” says Louboutin’s friend Bella Freud, the English fashion designer who recently created a line of fetish knitwear that incorporates four of his drawings. “With Christian, it is always at his disposal. He’s not a tortured genius.” A grand illustration of Freud’s point can be found throughout Louboutin’s workspace, which spreads over several buildings on the rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, not far from the Louvre. In Louboutin’s playful atelier, a tin man hangs from the ceiling. Shelves house a stuffed lemur, a pink motorcycle helmet and the limited-edition Cat Burglar Barbie, which Louboutin designed in 2009 on the condition he could shrink her ankles. (He deemed them too fat.) A bulletin board includes a calendar of priests, a drawing of Louboutin and Diane von Furstenberg on a mule, a photo of his friend Dina (“she’s the biggest belly dancer in the world”) and a 1950s-vintage picture of a gay Lebanese couple mimicking Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. “I love this picture,” Louboutin says, covering the torso and face of a person on a postcard. “People have said these are the legs of Katharine Hepburn. But look” — he removes his hand — “it’s Albert Einstein!” For all his whimsy, Louboutin is vigorous about protecting his brand. His red sole is a genius marketing flourish, but it’s also an easy target for counterfeiters selling knockoff Loubis. In 2010 he launched stopfakelouboutin.com, which features a video of a bulldozer plowing through a sea of fake shoes. He has even called the fashion police on fellow designers. In April 2011, he filed a lawsuit against Yves Saint Laurent after the house produced shoes with red soles for its cruise collection. YSL argued that a designer cannot own a color; Louboutin cited Hermes’ virtual ownership of orange and Tiffany’s trademark of its duck-egg blue. “I would not use a green-and-red ribbon because I know those are the colors of Gucci,” he says. “If you are supposedly creative, use your creativity to find a new path.” Louboutin’s current path, alongside museum retrospectives and cabaret extravaganzas, includes the arrival of his second men’s store, in New York City, this spring. His men’s range, priced from $465 to $2,500, includes simple loafers and lace-ups as well as “trash” shoes decorated with discarded string, fabrics and notes from Louboutin’s atelier. The No Limit Men’s Flat, a $1,695 high-top sneaker, features dozens of golden spikes protruding from its vamp and crystals lining its red, brown and turquoise exterior. Both his men’s stores (the first opened in Paris last year) offer a tattoo service that lets customers imprint their own inkings on their shoes. He got the idea after hearing his friend Gareth Thomas, the openly gay English rugby player, discuss his love of his own tattoo. “They’re pretty much a postcard of your life,” Louboutin says. “People are proud of their tattoos. It’s like a modern coat of arms.” And in Louboutin’s eyes, his women’s shoes are a modern badge of honor. He has little patience for those who complain that skyscraping heels slow women down, whether literally or metaphorically. “Why do people always want you to run?” he asks. “The issue is the same for everyone: you run, and at the end there is a grave. If you run all your life, you end up having seen nothing.” As he walks out of the atelier for lunch at the Crazy Horse, his black studded flats make a gentle scuffle against the wooden floorboards.

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