Capsule Collection
“BUTTON FLOWER BLOSSOMS”, 2024

CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN ×
SHUN SUDO

As part of his Spring/Summer 2024 collection, Christian Louboutin joins together with Japanese artist Shun Sudo to unveil an exciting lifestyle capsule of colorful shoes and accessories for women and men. The limited capsule collection launches alongside a vibrant and exclusive artwork crafted by Shun Sudo to illustrate the collaboration: Button Flower Blossoms. Co-designed by Shun Sudo & Christian Louboutin, this artistic collaboration ties back to the designerʼs vivid passions for art and nature, revisiting a selection of the Maisonʼs most iconic silhouettes in an exclusive floral print and embellishment.

“I love Shun Sudo’s work. While working on the collection we discovered many common points in the way we work on colors, with strong and audacious combinations. And since the very beginning of my career I’ve one emblematic flower: the Pensee (my first design to receive the red sole), he has his own one: the Button Flower that appeared to become the center of the collection. His technique also is very characteristic and I did my best to transcript this painting effect on the shoes.”

CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN

“Christian Louboutin’s shoes exude a sense of beauty, eccentricity, and delicacy that I have never seen in my life. They inspired my creativity. I am very grateful to have collaborated with Christian. Flowers, with their nobility and grace, their sweetness and charm, they have a special ability to heal our hearts. The Button, is, in my mind, the perfect embodi- ment of something that connects two separate things and makes them one. The “Button Flower” brings these two powerful symbols together and is really at the very core of my personal philosophy of hope and my wish that the hearts of different peoples, nations, and cultures will be joined into one.“

SHUN SUDO

CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN × SHUN SUDO

Charity T-Shirts, 2023

24 HOUR TELEVISION

With a 46-year history since its first broadcast in 1978, the charity program “24-Hour TV (NTV)” can be regarded as a pioneer of charity fundraising activities in Japan. The total amount raised through the 45th edition of the program is 42,417,255,957 yen. SHUN SUDO has designed charity T-shirts for the 2023 edition, following in the footsteps of such leading Japanese contemporary artists as Takashi Murakami and Yayoi Kusama.

24 HOUR TELEVISION

Photos: Courtesy of COMME des GARÇONS

tao Spring & Summer Collection, 2023

tao × SHUN SUDO

© tao 2023 Spring & Summer Collection

tao × SHUN SUDO

© PORSCHE JAPAN

Porsche – Art Car Project, 2022

Taycan Soul Canvas

This car is filled with the future that Porsche wants to realize,
including respect for tradition, nature, the environment, the earth, and people.
That’s what resonated with me.

SHUN SUDO

Taycan Soul Canvas

Mural by SHUN SUDO, 2021

TOKYO OLYMPICS 2020

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, SHUN SUDO created WALLART
at the skateboarding venue.

TOKYO OLYMPICS 2020

Ginza Sony Park, 2020

ART IN THE PARK

In light of the new Ginza park project planned to be completed on 2024, Artist SHUN SUDO wanted to express the evolution of the project from the founding of the Sony Building in 1966, through the current Ginza Sony Park, to the future new building that will extend the concept of the park vertically. Shun Sudo depicts a delicate but lively vision of Ginza, place that remains in his heart since his childhood.