French footwear designer Christian Louboutin is cramping an Upper East Side woman’s style — by blocking the Madison Avenue views from her terrace with the construction of a new storefront facade, a lawsuit charges.
Ethel Marran, who uses a wheelchair, realized a dream of moving to the city from the suburbs in 2007 after the death of her husband. She found the perfect second-floor apartment at 35 E. 75th St., where she could survey city life.
So when the 85-year-old widow recently learned that Louboutin would be building a metal mesh facade extending above the first floor that “would obstruct nearly 100 percent” of her view ,she was “devastated.”
Manhattan Judge Carol Edmead denied Marran’s request to stop the construction, but the parties return to court on Oct. 15.
A Louboutin rep declined to comment.