Ahh the joys walking in famous shoes. No matter what, there is always someone trying to trash your name. This time the trashing has to do with Uyanda Mbuli, well know South African Socialite and owner of local fashion brand DFC.
Now, we all know Uyanda loves her shoes and has even nicknamed herself a “shoeshonista”. She’s also a huge fan, and a collector of fabulous shoes, including Jimmy Choo’s and my personal favourites, Christian Louboutin.
So why then are certain “New York Fashionista’s ” hammering Uyanda for wearing fakes” ? It seems that its purely because they dont know the difference between an authentic pair and a fake.
Christian Louboutin Lady Peep Spikes
According to an article published in the Sunday World in early Feb, a certain “Louboutin employee” who works at “a designer mall SAKS Fifth Avenue” in New York called the Sunday World to say that Uyanda’s Lady Peep Spikes she wore to the J&B Met were fake.
The reason? Because “SAKS don”t sell them”! Well, news flash! Just because SAKS doesnt sell something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist! On another note, why would a “Louboutin employee” be working at SAKS? This “expert” is just a SAKS employee selling Louboutins – ahh, the details!
Anyway, Uyanda got in touch with the Louboutin headquarters in Paris and received confirmation from an Account Manager (who can be classified as a an”employee of Louboutin”) that the Lady Peep shoes do in fact exist.
According to Louboutin’s Account Manager, LADY PEEP SPIKES were for exclusive sale to Christian Louboutin stores and therefore the reason that SAKS had never seen them. Uyanda bought her LPS from the Christian Louboutin store in Dubai.
So much for the experts comments “She must have bought the pair from somewhere dodgy its design doesn’t shout Christian Louboutin”. Well, if you log onto the official Christian Louboutin site you can see they do exist, pretty clearly!
In the pictures, Uyanda is wearing her fabulous pair of shoes, that look identical to the ones on the site. Now I cant tell by looking at a picture whether the shoe 100% identical or not, but I see no reason why Uyanda would want, or even need to buy fakes?
