‘Londoners beware’: Influencer’s warning after brazen Birkin bag theft on Oxford Street
An influencer is warning other women shopping in London’s West End “to beware” after CCTV caught the moment her new £10,000 Birkin bag was stolen as she tried on clothes at a boutique.
Model Janice Joostema, who boasts 1.2million followers on Instagram, said it had been “gut-wrenching” to watch a female thief swipe the item while she got undressed in a VIP changing room at Manière De Voir on Oxford Street.
Surely that's a successful bit of influencing. Perhaps not the kind of personal influence an influencer would wish to influence, but effective.
I wonder if Starmer counts himself as an influencer? Whizzing around the world as he does, suggests he isn't a good influencer because he has to work so hard at it. He doesn't have a £10,000 Birkin bag though. Not yet anyway.
He doesn't have a £10,000 Birkin bag though. Not yet, anyway’; perhaps Lord Alli can help out with that.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally - with apologies for being reprehensibly puerile - I’ve just remembered that Alli was the name of the weight loss wonder-drug from the early 2000s which became notorious for its singularly unpleasant digestive consequences - just google ‘Alli side-effects’.
There’s definitely a joke in there somewhere…
£10,000 for a handbag?
ReplyDeleteI’ve inspected the sympathy meter; it’s firmly stuck on zero.
Macheath - allow me to be more puerile - "Should I carry on with Alli or not? I'm caught between two stools."
ReplyDeletePeter - mine too, but I feel we need a meter which reads lower than zero.
All the way up to minus 11!
Delete“gut-wrenching” to watch a female thief swipe the item while she got undressed in a VIP changing room
ReplyDeleteI guess it's nice to know that it's been stolen by another VIP, though.
Sam - yes, even in changing rooms it's unwise to trust a VIP.
ReplyDelete'Puritans' like me would consider 10k too much to be spent on a handbag.
ReplyDeleteTammly - I thought it was rather a lot too. It wasn't even as useful as a rucksack.
ReplyDeleteDid it really happen, or is it a publicity stunt?
ReplyDeletedjc - it's hard to tell with some of these minor stories which are never followed up. It's not a good CCTV image of the supposed thief, but such images rarely are.
ReplyDelete‘Alli; oiling the workings of the Labour Party since 1997’
ReplyDeleteMacheath - flushed with... no I'm going puerile again.
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