If you scroll through TikTok right now, you’ll find one question popping up again and again: Is Christian Louboutin Black? You know, the Christian Louboutin, iconic French designer responsible for the red bottom heels and sneakers, is he skinfolk? Well, we did some digging, and his ancestry might just surprise you.
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On the social media app, Black folks are saying that they are prepared to splash their cash on some Louboutin shoes after seeing pictures of him for the first time, and realizing he is not a white man as they had assumed.
“Y’all, I thought that was white folks. That was n****** this whole time. If designer ever becomes my thing and my finances permit it, now I can buy those (Louboutins) in good conscience, guilt-free. But yes, the red bottoms that is n******. I thought that was White folks… Every day, I find a reason to be proud to be Black, and this is just another one of those moments,” said TikTok user @confusedasl531.
The truth is that Christian Louboutin does have African ancestry. The iconic designer was born to a White mom and an Egyptian father, but you can’t fault yourself for not knowing this fact, as Monsieur Louboutin himself didn’t find out until 2013!
Louboutin didn’t learn about his Egyptian ancestry until both his parents had passed, according to the Northern Irish newspaper, Belfast Telegraph. His three elder sisters revealed to him that his mom had a secret lover, and that’s who his biological father was.
“In her 40s, she (his mom) started to have this thing. I didn’t think that she would have a lover, but I was very happy for her. Even if I loved my father. It’s really her story. My father is my father. My biological father is another thing,” he told the Belfast Telegraph.
In the same interview, Louboutin said that he wasn’t surprised to learn about his North African roots because he always had a love for Egypt growing up.
“I was surprised and not surprised, because I’ve had such a big love of Egypt. But then, of course, I was surprised because I thought my mother was a saint.”
While growing up having darker skin than his siblings made Louboutin feel like the odd one out, it did not make him feel bad. In a 2022 interview with The Business of Fashion, the Parisian designer admitted that he felt like it was a good thing to be slightly different from his family.
“It didn’t make me feel bad at all. It just made me feel different, which is nice. Also, I didn’t have to refer to ‘you look like your uncle’ because I didn’t look like the uncle who was drunk all the time. Or, ‘you look like your grandfather,’ who was an a******. I never felt that any reference to my family was coming all the way to me. So, I actually think that it’s a very liberating thing to not necessarily belong.”
So there you have it, Christian Louboutin does have African roots, and he is not shy about them.
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