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Watch Out for Falling Trannies
Bloodbath at Bendel’s.
At last Tuesday’s Heatherette launch party at Henri Bendel, Amanda Lepore, wearing only diamond pasties and a diamond thong, climbed onto the stage ready to perform her trademark burlesque animal-balloon act. Then she promptly tripped on her five-inch Christian Louboutin stilettos, bloodying her hand and the balloon animal. The shaken Lepore was escorted to the basement security area, where guards cleaned her cut with Bactine and wrapped her wrist in a bandage. “I slipped on the track lighting,” says Lepore. “My high heel broke the bulb, and then the glass cut my hand.” She wasn’t too pleased with the security team’s first-aid skills, though. “They told me it was going to be fine, but I knew it was bad,” says Lepore. “The next day, I went to the hospital and had to get a tetanus shot and a stitch.” “Not to be unsympathetic, but a lot of my friends there were like, ‘Does Amanda really bleed?’ ” says Heatherette designer Richie Rich, a witness to the mayhem. “They thought, like, you know, Shiseido’s going to come out of her pores instead of real blood.”
—Emma Rosenblum