Christian Louboutin is a French fashion designer who launched his own line of women’s shoes in the early 1990s. Their signature shiny, red-lacquered soles that were created in 1993 and have since become a world-wide staple. The quality and simple identification of their product helped the brand launch into handbags in 2003, create men's shoes in 2011 and has since has grown as far as cosmetics.