Heidi Klum brightened a gray stretch of Midtown Manhattan on Monday, wearing candy-red Christian Louboutin pumps with a matching trenchcoat and turning a rainy sidewalk into a tightly controlled color story. The “Project Runway” host wore Christian Louboutin’s Pigalle Follies 100 pump in glossy red mock-croc embossed finish. The shoe had a long pointed toe, a low-cut vamp, a thin stiletto heel and Louboutin’s signature red sole.
Heidi Klum wearing croc-effect Christian Louboutin pumps in Midtown Manhattan on Monday in New York City.
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That texture did a lot of the work here because Klum kept everything else in the same saturated lane. She paired the pumps with a vivid red trenchcoat cut below the knee. Black double-breasted buttons and a black-framed belt buckle broke up the color only slightly. Amber aviators, a tartan umbrella and a beaded phone charm rounded out the look, while the matching coat and pumps kept the red story tight.
The Pigalle remains one of Christian Louboutin’s defining pump lines. The original Pigalle traces back to 2004, and the house still positions the style as a signature pointed pump built around a low vamp and elongated line, named for the Paris district that inspired it. Klum’s pair pushed that long-running silhouette into a brighter, more graphic place through the red embossed finish rather than crystals, hardware or other surface embellishment.
A closer look at Heidi Klum’s croc-embossed, candy-red Christian Louboutin Pigalle Follies pumps.
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Recent Klum looks have kept the shoes doing the work. Earlier this month, she used Christian Louboutin’s black patent Erozee pumps to sharpen a feather-trimmed Christian Siriano dress, switched into ruched olive over-the-knee boots for another rainy Manhattan outing, then went metallic in Paris Texas’ mirrored gold Lidia mules at Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party. Monday’s look pulled back to a simpler base: a classic pointed stiletto, pushed forward by color and texture.
The pair also joined a recent run of Louboutin’s pointed Follies silhouette across celebrity appearances. Tiffany Haddish wore what appeared to be the Pigalle Follies in burgundy satin at the NFL Honors in February, while Blake Lively wore the crystal-dotted Follies Strassita in New York in December. Klum kept the same elongated, low-cut line and changed the finish, using glossy red mock-croc embossing in place of satin or strass. And while Klum’s was a more subtle take on the trend, more and more celebrities are stepping out in animal-print shoes.