Fashion You Can Eat

I love to eat and my full-figured body can attest to that. I'm particularly drawn to sweets, but I've decided to hold off on them after I lose ten or more pounds. That was before I found out Christian Louboutin's collaboration with French patisserie Ladurée to create three beautifully adorned boxes for macaroons. Seems like a match made in heaven since both parties produce the most scrumptious creations on this planet.

Louboutin is well-known for his fabulous shoes with shiny, red-lacquered soles that is his trademark and also for bringing stilettos back into fashion in the 1990s and 2000s. Catherine Deneuve and Angelina Jolie are fans of his and so are Princess Caroline of Monaco and Princess Marie Chantal of Greece. First Lady of France Carla Bruni also swears by his shoes as she chose to wear a pair of kitten heels when she met with Princess Letizia of Spain last April.

On the other hand, Ladurée is famous for those small, round cakes that are crisp on the outside and smooth and soft in the middle. Many have sworn that these macaroons are to die for and a new flavor is created every season. In fact, the Parisian patisserie is credited for having created all those tasty treats in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette.

Louboutin's sketches of red-soled high heels will appear on the boxes and they come in three sizes to fit six, eight and 18 macaroons. The drawings sure do look as tasty as the treats inside since they're drawn in pastel shades. To tie-in with the collaboration, Ladurée has taken inspiration from Louboutin's designs and created a selection of limited-edition macaroon flavors that includes fig and date. Truly this is fashion you can eat.

Now I can't wait for September 11 when the limited edition gift boxes will be made available, but then again these will only be available at the Ladurée Harrods and Burlington Arcade Gallery branches in London. On the plus side, I can sleep well knowing I can stick to my macaroon-free diet since I don't have the cash to fly for a box of sweet treats.