Downtown Goes Upstate

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Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the Balenciaga outlet store upstate when New York club kid, performer and personality Ladyfag, and buddy Amanda Lepore rushed the place shrieking for shoes. The duo endured an all day exercise in economy along with "what felt like half a day's schlep" to the legendary Woodbury Commons outlet village and lived to tell about their new Versace bags.—FG [Paper Magazine]