Christian Louboutin sells quite a bit of shoes every year. In fact, more than 500,000 pairs of his designs leave stores in the hands of happy customers every year, with prices starting under $400, going all the way up to $6,000 for some of the fanciest pairs. So you may be tempted to think that Louboutin has something for every buyer in order to appeal to a broad customer demographic.

However, that's not the case, as Louboutin's style is only for customers with an edge. "I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men," he revealed in a chat with The New Yorker. "But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!"

That's not lost on Hamish Bowles, Vogue's European editor-at-large. "There's the promise of something wicked in Christian's shoes," he proclaimed. "They're a little dangerous, and there's a sense of teetering on the precipice between avoiding dreary conventional good taste and tumbling into something far more outrageous." And we at The List are here for it.