Psychologic: A Christian Louboutin Debut

When Christian Louboutin opened his West Hollywood boutique last month, one might have expected a grand soiree, clamorous with the clinking of cocktail glasses and champagne flutes, a night of glamour worthy of such a celebration. Conversely, in the spirit of the old Hollywood tradition, the highly admired shoe designer bypassed the party, and in lieu, created a short film, “Psychologic.”

Louboutin’s directorial debut, inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film “Psycho,” introduces his talented visual creativity into a new lighthearted medium. “Psychologic” takes us into a dreamworld, it is the anti-nightmare.

The film begins starkly in chilling black and white, set in a perfect re-creation of the 1960 horror. In the all-familiar shower scene, tense orchestrated music leads up to a scream by the elegantly poised star, Elisa Sednaoui, but there is a striking sense of joy in her cry, a strange look of painful pleasure upon her face, then a shot of a perpetrator with a sharp-pointed stiletto in hand instead of a knife.

The perpetrator is a disguised Louboutin himself, and the beauty crawls out of the shower to follow him into a colorful world of his red-soled shoes. In a few moments of frivolous climax, Louboutin presents his view on the ultimate indulgence for a woman, the way to her heart and liberation, and that is through fashion.

The film as a whole is an artistic commentary on the work to which Louboutin has dedicated himself, an explanation to the sometimes illogic of fashion.

You can view the entire film at http://www.christianlouboutin.com/#/loubi_blog&gossip.

-chelsey bingham