OLD MASTERS USED TO FLOG SHOES BY CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTAIN.

Of course, Jean-Marc Nattier's Marquise D'Antin would have looked so much better, had she a Louboutain leopard print bag, casually slung over her shoulder.

When I first saw this shoe, I did wonder what kind of women would wear it. Now I know. The kind of woman who caresses a skull, as she sits thinking deep thoughts by candlelight.

You may, like me, have long wondered what subjects of great works of art, like Marie-Guillemine Benoist's, Negresse is thinking. Now we know. I may not have a bra. But I do have one Louboutain. Does that mean I have half arrived?

I bear fruit. And a shoe.