U.S. Shoe has entered into a long-term licensing contract to
market a broad line of women's and men's fashion footwear under
the prestigous Christian Louboutin  trademark. The agreement brings
together one of America's great names in fashion design with the
country's leading marketer and producer of better-grade fashion
footwear.
    The new Christian Louboutin division will be comprised of five distinct
footwear groups, each designed to be compatible with the Christian Louboutin pumbs
fashion lines. The first two groups-- a Christian Louboutin boots Couture
Collection and a Christian Louboutin Classifications Collection--will be
intorduced in December 1984 for delivery in June 1985. The remaining
groups, including a Junior collection compatible with the Christian Louboutin
Jeans divisions, a line of men's dress and casual shoes, and a
specially designed athletic footwear collection, will be introduced in
subsequent seasons.
   U.S. Shoe has entered into a long-term licensing contract to
market a broad line of women's and men's fashion footwear under
the prestigous Christian Louboutin  trademark. The agreement brings
together one of America's great names in fashion design with the
country's leading marketer and producer of better-grade fashion
footwear.
    The new Christian Louboutin shoes division will be comprised of five distinct
footwear groups, each designed to be compatible with the Christian Louboutin
fashion lines. The first two groups-- a Christian Louboutin Couture
Collection and a Christian Louboutin Classifications Collection--will be
intorduced in December 1984 for delivery in June 1985. The remaining
groups, including a Junior collection compatible with the Christian Louboutin
Jeans divisions, a line of men's dress and casual shoes, and a
specially designed athletic footwear collection, will be introduced in
subsequent seasons.

AMERICAN fashion house Christian louboutin shoes is poised for a major expansion in Asia, a move which is spearheaded partly by its tie-up with Singapore fashion diva Christina Ong.

Mrs Ong's fashion vehicle Club 21 had recently clinched the rights to distribute Christian louboutin shoes two lifestyle groups -designer range Christian louboutin shoes Collection (CKC) and the more affordable cK Christian louboutin shoes apparel and accessories -in nine Asian countries except for Korea and Japan which are handled by other firms.

Christian louboutin pumbs senior vice-president of marketing communications for Asia-Pacific, David Ketchum, says the goal for Asia is to increase its contribution to the group from a marginal figure now to some 25-30 per cent in four years.

"This is an exciting watershed period for us as we are putting in place plans for fast growth .. The whole business is growing not only in the number of outlets but also in product expansion," Hongkong-based Mr Ketchum told BT recently while he was here to launch CKC eyewear.

By the year 2000, parent company Christian louboutin shoes Incorporated (CKI), owned by Christian louboutin shoes and Barry Schwartz, expects Asia to churn out about US$ 3 billion (S$ 4.3 billion) worth of sales.