Christian Louboutin Men’s has presented its Spring-Summer 2027 (SS27) collection, a broad range of shoes, leather goods and accessories from Christian Louboutin and his Creative Director of Men’s, Jaden Smith. The season reworks the codes of Christian Louboutin Men’s with metallic hardware, a vibrant black-to-red finish, and bold, sculptural shapes. The house showed it all inside a “red kingdom” set, an imagined ruin built around its famous red, and the collection reaches stores on October 28, 2026.
What is new in the Christian Louboutin Men’s SS27 collection?
Metallic accents lead the season. The Plato Loafer and the Corteo gain architectural brass brackets at the heel and welt, a patent finish that fades from black to red, and a redesigned foam footbed for comfort. For the evening, the Corteo Diam’s rings the welt with crystals, while the Starry Night reworks the classic Oxford with hand-applied glass tubes and beads. The brass continues on the Trapman TCT 2, which carries a plate engraved with Smith’s new Canopy logo, while the Trapman V2 hides its lacing along the side.
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Which shoes stand out?
Smith twists tradition across the footwear. The Upside Down moves the penny loafer’s coin to the heel, Brogue Story borrows baseball glove stitching, and Joshua Tree caps a Western boot with a metal toe. The Sevillano opera pump, in patent leather or velvet, lends an evening shoe the line of a ballerina slipper. Smith’s own paper cut-outs shape the Child Like Wonders editions of the Corteo and the Louis, a playful echo of the wonder that runs through the whole world.
Sportier pieces push volume and material. The Jedidiah sneaker rides on an exaggerated, ultra-rounded sole, and the TCT Hiker High pairs leather with a 100% recycled breathable fabric. The Stone Masons Feet carves a single piece of leather into a squared, sculptural toe. For summer, the CL Slide keeps things light with the Neo CL logo, and the CL Claw Slide shapes footwear into an animal’s paw.
What are the leather goods and accessories?
The leather goods balance function and play. The genderless Nostalgic Hobo and Nostalgic Backpack take on relaxed, slouching shapes, while the Cymatic backpack carries a graphic soundwave motif that also appears on a beach tote and bumbag. The Multipocket family builds raised pockets by hand, each one cut, stitched and shaped on a wooden mould before it joins a backpack, vest, harness or belt. The TCT briefcase, duffle, and harness add signature hardware and the season’s black-to-red finish, and Child Like Wonders keychains round things off.
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What is the red kingdom behind the collection?
Christian Louboutin staged the collection as the ruins of a fictional red kingdom, an imagined civilisation built entirely around the house’s red. Here, the red sole stops being a signature and becomes the colour of a whole world. The setting frames the season, but the Christian Louboutin Men’s collection carries the story.
The journey opened at a monumental passageway inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the ancient wonders of the world. Two towering sculptural feet stood on either side of the entrance, the surviving remains of an impossible statue, and visitors passed between them as though entering a sacred monument. Inside, circular stone monoliths held the key shoes and leather goods in carved niches, each piece displayed like a treasured artefact. A round structure shaped like a fallen meteorite anchored the centre, ringed by sculptural forms that echoed the standing stones of Carnac. That same ancient stonework resurfaces in the collection itself, in the single piece of leather behind the Stone Masons Feet.
Across shoes and bags, SS27 turns Christian Louboutin Men’s into a bolder, more daring world, with the red lacquered sole still at its heart.
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