Christian Louboutin

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If you love shoes, you'll definitely get your kicks from this designer. "Tina Turner turned me on to these shoes. I was in her dressing room and she had them lined up," Oprah says. "I said, 'What, do they all have names?' Yes, actually, they do. Christian Louboutin."

His red-hot shoes are on the feet of the world's most stylish women. "My shoes are perfect for the very sexy woman who wants to be elegant," Christian says.

Christian is known for his signature red sole, but he says that idea came to him in a moment of frustration. "The shoe looked unfinished. Something was missing. The girl I was working with was constantly painting her nails so I grabbed her nail polish and put it on the sole," Christian says. "The shoe went totally alive. You know, the red sole basically became my identity and totally a trademark."

Oprah calls Christian's shoes "little pieces of sculpture." That's exactly the point, says spokeswoman Shawna Rose. "It's absolutely art for the foot. Christian is inspired by many things ... anything from daily life from a doorknob to a flower to, as one of the shoes is named, a sea anemone," Shawna says. "He brings that into his thoughts and feelings about women, which he's very passionate about."

Women invest in these shoes as they would a painting. "Ten hands and a hundred different processes that go into making each and every shoe," Shawna says. "Every element of the shoe is done by one artisan after another."