From Jefferson to Shakespeare: Nicolas Sarkozy’s son talks about making fashion intellectual
- Louis Sarkozy is collaborating with Spanish footwear brand Boonper, dedicating four pairs of shoes to famous thinkers, scientists and writers
- He hopes to inspire the social media generation with the Enigma Collection
It would be hard to have a conversation with Louis Sarkozy without politics coming up, not least because he is the youngest son of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. But Louis – or @sarko_junior as he is known on Instagram to his 27k followers – is also a philosophy student, and they’re not known for being reticent.
In fact, as a regular contributor to the Washington Examiner, Sarkozy has written lengthy articles ranging from ‘Why I won’t vote for Trump in 2020, even though I would have in 2016’ to ‘We don’t deserve Elon Musk’.
“I wrote an article on Elon and got the chance to be retweeted by his mother,” says Sarkozy. “I’m such a huge fan of his.”
If there’s one thing Sarkozy isn’t short of, it’s idols. Throughout the conversation, he namedrops Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Jonathan Haidt, and Nick Bostrom. (And if you had to Google any of those names, you wouldn’t be alone.) Enamoured with intellectuals, it’s only fitting that for his first collection with Spanish footwear brand Boonper, Sarkozy has dedicated the four pairs of shoes to Thomas Jefferson, William Shakespeare, Marie Curie and Sigmund Freud.
“It started about a year and a half ago,” says Sarkozy. “Pablo [from Boonper] sent me a message on social media asking to collaborate.”
