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Someone Ran Off With Alice Temperley's Shoes!

  • 9/10/07 at 09:59 AM
Alice Temperley

Yeah, that's right. Two belts.Photo: Patrick McMullan

Over a glass of Champagne at the Moët Lounge in the Tents on Saturday, we caught up with British designer Alice Temperley just after her runway show. She was relieved and delighted, but revealed that the road to Bryant Park was paved with some extremely sticky flagstones. "Two weeks ago somebody stole £25,000 worth of Christian Louboutin shoes for the show," she said. At the last minute, Temperley had to take her footwear designs for the runway show to a different retailer and have them made quickly. We're glad everything went well in the end, but we have to wonder who was big enough to carry off such a load of shoes, and tasteful enough to appreciate them? Somewhere in London's West End, we're betting there's one really happy drag queen…
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