Christian Louboutin to launch beauty line in 2013

French shoemaker Christian Louboutin is stepping up to beauty with a new cosmetic line launching next year. According to the Times' Tiffany Hsu:

"Louboutin red isn’t just for the soles of sky-high stillettos anymore... His luxury French company is pairing with Batallure Beauty, which helps develop brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy’s, Marchesa and Sephora, to launch the Christian Louboutin Beaute line in late 2013. Sephora, a cosmetics and fragrance retailer, happens to stock perfumes from another well-known shoe titan: Jimmy Choo."

Read Hsu's full story on Christian Louboutin Beaute.

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Photo: A pair of Louboutins on display at the Design Museum London. Credit: Associated Press / Jonathan Short.