RED COLOR: THE EPITOME OF PASSION
Passion, danger, provocation, seduction, excitation. Red is adrenaline, fireworks, alert, the color of shame or anger on the cheeks. It is the color equivalent of a kiss. Red is the epitome of passion.
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Alexander McQueen: The usage of red color always encompassed a deep sense of its historical and cultural significance, most of the time expressing its pagan as well as its sadomasochistic inspiration.
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Christian Louboutin... and his red sole. As he has revealed, the idea came from the Pensée shoe, which was inspired from Warhol’s 1964 collection “Flowers”. “When the prototype of the shoe I had designed arrived from Italy, I felt something was missing. I realized it was this black sole that bothered me”. In a moment of incredible inspiration, he snatched his assistant’s nail polish and started painting the sole. And then “boom! It popped up exactly like my drawing, and I thought, this is it”.