His little formal training included drawing and the decorative arts at the Académie d'Art Roederer. He was also a fixture on the city's party scene alongside Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol. His first job was at the Folies Bergères, the cabaret where he assisted the entertainers backstage. Going through a punk phase, he was in a few films, including the 1979 cult classic Race d'ep and The Homosexual Century, which attracted an English-language audience. Louboutin's passion for designing shoes started at a young age, overshadowing his interest in academics and leading him towards a successful career in fashion. He later remarked, "Everybody applauded! And I thought, Well, at least if I regret it I'm going to be like the sister of Sophia Loren!"Īs a preteen he was one of the "Bande Du Palace", a group of hard-partying teens and preteens that included Eva Ionesco, who was a fixture of the Parisian nightclub Le Palace. She stated that she had to leave school when she was only 12, but got her degree when she was 50. However, he claims that what helped him make up his mind was an interview on TV with Sophia Loren, in which she introduced her sister. He faced much opposition when he decided to drop out from school. Louboutin was expelled from school three times and then he decided to run away from home at the age of 12, at which point his mother allowed him to move out to live at a friend's house. I invented my own history, full of characters from Egypt, because I was very into the pharaohs." He discovered that he had Egyptian heritage from his biological father, who had been in a secret relationship with his mother Irene, as revealed by one of his sisters in 2014. But instead of feeling it was terrible and that I was an outsider who had to go and find my real family. My family was very French and so I decided they had probably adopted me. Louboutin said in a 2012 interview that he was "much darker-skinned than everyone else in his family. He was the only son of Roger, a cabinet-maker, and Irene, a homemaker from Brittany.
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