That’s very true. Not that it excuses how they were treated when brought from China but a lot of the Chinese went out on their own and are multimillionaires because they did. Now the brands are subcontracting to them.
There was some kind of labour raid in the 2010s that prompted Chanel to build that factory in Pulia. I’m
not saying it was a raid on Chanel directly. It was all of the factories in Prato. And other brands share that factory &/or have built in other cities in the NW area. I say Chanel for the purposes of this thread.
The people of Prato are upset that now people are being brought in from the ME, the Baltics & Northern African to be the workers.
It’s very much like a wheel. First this one is on top, then that one…Someone will always be the one run over.
Someone way back in the thread said something about the super fakes becoming better quality. This is why. People learn the craft then go back to AP and start their own thing. They have access to all the same leathers & definitely the logo hardware.
The super fakes are why insurance companies won’t accept on line certificates and most of the old school, reliable Chanel authenticators won’t do it from a picture for a bag post 2016. They want to see it and feel it. Even then some bags get authenticated incorrectly.
Sorry OT again.
I thought the same thing, that people must’ve worked in the factories and started producing super fakes when they left. You’d think they’d make them sign NDA’s or something similar, but I suppose it wouldn’t matter if they’re in another country.
IMO the super fakes can sometimes look really good in photos, but not in person. To an untrained eye I could see how it could pass, but I’ve seen fakes that generally look good in the sense that the shape is in line with the real version and many wouldn’t be able to tell, but to me the material is easy to differentiate even from a distance.
About 8 years ago I was scouring eBay for a Celine nano luggage bag. I owned it in a trio color and wanted one in black. I was heavily researching the site as I couldn’t trust many to be authentic (ie, addresses like Hong Kong, etc, were immediate red flags) but I wanted to score one at a better price and stores were out of the black. One was somewhere in China, and although normally I wouldn’t purchase from this country because all the fakes originate here, but I naively convinced myself that well, real ones exist here too…I looked over the photos dozens of times, did so many comparisons.
When I received the bag I immediately knew it was fake just by touch. But the bag looked so good someone who doesn’t own designer bags and/or isn’t familiar with a specific brand could easily be duped. The hardware didn’t feel right (it was so light), the bag didn’t feel substantial. The weight of leather and quality were not there. The stamping looked really good but there was something slightly off about it.
It was the best looking fake I had seen, but even having said that, I could still immediately tell the differences without close examination. The feel of authentic bags is a world of a difference. But overall it was pretty surprising how on the surface, without being handled, if I were to see someone wearing this bag, I wouldn’t immediately think it’s fake. Where I live I see fake bags daily. They’re generally very obvious to me, even just passing a person on the street. I don’t understand the fake market, I am adamantly against it, but it is very interesting.
