BLAKE LIVELY has been given the ultimate fashion compliment: Christian Louboutin has named a shoe after her. The Blake - which features multi-coloured straps fastened with buttons - will be available in the US and UK in March, 2011, and retails at £635.
"I went to [Louboutin's] atelier and I was walking around, like every shoe here is so beautiful and I saw this one pair and I said: 'I've never seen anything like it,'" Blake told Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa on their show Live! With Regis and Kelly. "He said: 'Do you love it?' I said: 'I want to sleep with it under my pillow every night' and he said: 'We're naming it the Blake then.' It was insane. It's like my greatest accomplishment."
Lively also revealed that Louboutin gave her a Vespa tour of Paris after her visit to his atelier and that - on the same trip - Vogue editor Anna Wintour had introduced her to Karl Lagerfeld, who then cast her as the face of his new Chanel Mademoiselle bag campaign.