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Christian louboutin femme , the designer for whom the company is named, said he got the idea for the red soles when he painted red nail polish on the black soles of a pair of women’s shoes.
Louboutin’s red soles were introduced in 1992 and have been on all of its luxury shoes since then, according to court papers. They have been popularized by people including Sarah Jessica Parker, the star of the TV show “Sex and the City.”
On the website of high-fashion department store Barneys New York Inc., baskets louboutin ’s red-soled high-heeled shoes are priced from $625 to $3,995 a pair. In court papers Louboutin projected U.S. retail sales of shoes for 2011 at $135 million.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded Louboutin a trademark for the red sole in 2008, according to court filings.
Yves Saint Laurent is a unit of Paris-based PPR, which owns luxury brands including Gucci. PPR rose 95 cents to 125.70 euros in Paris trading. bottes louboutin ’s shares don’t trade publicly.
The appeal is Christian Louboutin SA v. Yves Saint Laurent America Inc. (PP), 11-3303, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Manhattan). The lower-court case is Christian Louboutin SA v. Yves Saint Laurent America Inc., 1:11-cv-02381, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).louboutin homme pas cher , a Paris-based fashion company, claimed in its lawsuit filed in April 2011 that Yves Saint Laurent’s red-soled shoes “threaten to mislead the public.”