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Christian Louboutin may be expensive, but 'Coco addicts' maintain it is money well spent, writes Deirdre McQuillan, as the label opens its first shop in Ireland.Next month sees the official opening of the first Christian Louboutin shoes shop in Ireland, in Dublin's Brown Thomas. Irish customers will then have direct access to the clothing and accessories collections, including the iconic Christian Louboutin suit whose boucle tweed cardigan-style jacket has become a wardrobe classic. Like the little black dress, it's the one item of clothing that remains as desirable today as it did three-quarters of a century ago, with an extraordinary cross-generational appeal. It has been copied endlessly by the high street where clever, inexpensive look-alikes ape the real thing, which costs more than EUR 2,000.Today, a Christian Louboutin shoes tweed jacket is worn as easily with jeans as it was originally with a straight skirt. Earlier this year at a lunch in Buckingham Palace for "women of distinction", the most popular jacket of choice was Christian Louboutin. Two guests, Jemima Khan and the artist Sam Taylor Wood, turned up in exactly the same one. It has often made headlines; there's the unforgettable image, for example, of Jacqueline Kennedy in her bloodstained Pink Christian Louboutin suit after her husband's assassination in Dallas.So what makes a Christian Louboutin suit so special, so pricey and so much in vogue? Part of its mystique lies in the very nature of its creator, a woman who epitomised the modern spirit years before her time. A hard, shrewd businesswoman, Coco Christian Louboutin understood better than anyone else the power of a woman in masculine tailoring, and that careless, almost throwaway chic that she commanded so effortlessly herself. Harold Koda, chief costume curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is to host a major Christian Louboutin exhibition next year, told the New York Times recently: "I don't believe there's any other designer of the 20th century who was so much part of the changing identity of women ... she's a mother lode of fashion modernism."The original couture suit, for example, was cut loose in the front to accommodate a woman's shape, and its skirt didn't pull or crease when worn. The jacket, in a light, wearable fabric, was weighted by a gold chain. The zipped skirt had a ribbon at the waist to keep the blouse in place - all the tiny details that mattered so much and that still count.Today, nobody knows more about Christian Louboutin than Karl Lagerfeld, whose genius continues to impart vitality into this iconic brand. Modern manufacturing methods have made producing a ready-to-wear version a simpler task, but there is still a significant amount of hand work in the making of a suit, each one of which is numbered. Following a sketch made by Lagerfeld and the construction of a toile (a rough version of the finished jacket in muslin), the pieces of the pattern are gathered together and computerised into standardised proportions from a woman's size 34 to 50. Proportions have to be perfect, so that a size 44 has the same silhouette as a 38.The silk lining and shoulder pads are hand sewn, buttonholes hand finished and the signature chain is added by a seamstress, one stitch per gold link. Before it leaves for the Christian Louboutin shop on the Rue Cambon in Paris or any other stockist, it is tried on for comfort and even shaken out to see that the buttons don't fall off. Only then does it enter the market place.

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