Not since A Clockwork Orange, perhaps, has a pair of shoes been at once so sinister – and so iconic. But Kubric’s bovver-boots have been eclipsed by an altogether more feminine affair; the result of a collaboration between two of the darkest imaginations in contemporary culture. Christian Louboutin and David Lynch became friends when the latter asked Louboutin to design a pair of shoes for his recent retrospective at Paris’ Cartier Foundation, and they’ve joined forces again for Fetish. The exhibition at the Gallerie du Passage is made up of a series of five images, shot by Lynch, of Louboutin’s wildest creations yet. Lynch’s Sapphic grime-glamour provides the ideal setting for the designer’s 26cm heels and ‘siamese’ shoes (consisting of two shoes fused at the heel); proving that red lipstick and red soles really are a marriage made in heaven. “I tried to keep an element of my drawings, to be faithful to the drawings, with no practicality, just pleasure”, says Louboutin of the project. “Usually when you go to the third dimension you lose something”. No risk of compromises here: one would be tempted to say that this is fetish at its most pure – if it wern’t so gloriously sinful. Look for a portfolio of images from the exhibit in TRACE’s “True Beauty” issue (Dec/Jan).