LV valentine collection 2025
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Mochi pink would be amazing!!! But red would be a non-question for me! Let’s keep our fingers crossed 🤞🏽
Hello guys!! Love love the dating speedy! However, am I being picky or would you return? The bag has some
scuffs on it and some scratches on the hardware. SA denies bag being a return or a display. Tell me what to do!!
scuffs on it and some scratches on the hardware. SA denies bag being a return or a display. Tell me what to do!!
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They don't need to be a return-items to look like this. Their overall quality is like this these days. They produce so much stuff now. And seemingly started to "save" lots of money on production costs... but since most customers are OK with this, they will keep on doing it, hiking the prices in the meantime.
Yes. Sadly. And people haven't yet seemed to notice the surge in their "Made in Italy" production volume, which after the Dior scandal, tells a lot quite frankly.
I already saw this charm in store. It is so cute. I have a very old one from the leopard collection with a heart on it (no idea, what the correct name of that line was back then...) and I love it as it is sooo cute (unfortunately dropped it often and it has a chip...)
Perhaps some of the leather changes can be buffed out. At least I am impressed that the pattern is very symmetrical.
I don’t think that would necessarily bother me, looks like faint marks on the vachetta. If it bothers you, you can exchange…I think I would keep .
I would return it. For the price of this bag, it better not have any scratches when you first take it out of the box.
The story went through social (and regular) media last summer, but the fire died down pretty quickly, and everything seemed to go back to normal (at least for the fashion houses). The investigations and the legal processes will take years, and in the end, everyone will get away with a small fine. Sad.
But I am always happy to remind people, and this also might be a very good time to think about these serious issues when people here are literally killing each other over the sacred Murakami drop, most of which was most probably manufactured the very same way as the infamous Dior Book Tote.
So, the story is that last year, the Italian authorities started to investigate Armani and Dior for using Chinese-run sweatshops in Italy.
Dior and Armani under investigation for exploiting workers at 'Chinese factories' in Italy
In the Milan region, Italian authorities have discovered undocumented workers living in dormitories in Chinese workshops supplying the Dior and Armani brands.
www.lemonde.fr
These are literally sweatshops, people working around the clock, 10-12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, for a few hundred € a month. The working conditions are horrible and dangerous, for our American friends: OSHA would be foaming at the mouth.
Workers live in the same building complexes as the sweatshops, so the production can be 0-24, one goes to sleep, the next steps in for the next 12-hour shift. This is literally modern-day slavery.
The workers are mostly poor Chinese and Pakistani people brought over with the promise of good money, and they also love to 'employ' migrants coming from the South. Probably this was one of the reasons why they got busted, since for many human rights organisations they are a focus these days, and when they found out that they are practically enslaved economically, the bells rang immediately.
These 2 names made the headlines, but I am sure that 1. every major brand does this and 2. and the gigantic (and extremely powerful) conglomerates did everything in their power to stop all their other brands from making headlines.
When the story broke, one interesting tidbit was that Dior paid 57€ to the sweatshop owners for a now €3000+ Book Tote. And sadly, THIS made the actual headlines all over YouTube/Insta/TikTok. How come Dior asking thousands from us, when they only pay €57 a piece? While the actual point of the story was that they are using slave labour.
But sadly, neither of these reasons stopped people from buying these amazing quality "Made in Europe" products. The funny thing is that these were all actually made in Italy. But the worst working conditions and the most vulnerable workers were imported first from the 3rd world, so that the Made-in tag won't lie.
I haven't found any info on Spain or France, if they have similar places (wouldn't surprise me), but it is a very big thing in Italy and Italians are aware of it, especially since the scandal happened, people discussed their experiences online and based on those it really feels like that this is a very widespread problem.
But since we are in the Louis Vuitton thread, let me give you my 2 cents. When I discovered the brand 15 years ago, most leather goods were made in France, the lower-end SLGs were made in Spain, the shoes were made in Italy, as were some of the high-end leather creations.
Back then their famous Taurillon leather was called Naxos, and most of the Naxos leather bags were made in Italy, those were the most excellent pieces they made. Back then it probably meant that the high-end leather was sourced in Italy, and they actually got them made in North-Italian workshops with experienced Italian craftspeople.
Well... since the scandal happened, their Made in Italy tag doesn't look the same as back then, when that only meant the the best Vuitton. And I am wondering if any of you noticed, but during the past year, their Made in Italy production skyrocketed. Many high-volume bags, TONS of SLGs are all made in Italy now. And the "is this OK?" thread is flooded with people complaining about quality with the recent releases, while the now infamous Made in Italy tag is more and more present in the pictures.
The scandal kinda explains the downfall of quality, and the last people to blame for them are the workers. When you have minutes to sew up a card holder with no breaks, 12-hour shifts and practically no way to escape, the millimeter misalignment will be your last concern. Unless the Dior, Armani and the rest refused to pay for those faulty products, then the sweatshop owner would enforce more precision, but this current level is an acceptable balance for all parties. Resulting in lesser quality and lots of suffering.
Funny how years ago it turned out that their Made in Italy shoes are all "fake" in that sense, since their actual shoe workshops are in Romania. They just put on the soles in Italy to earn the tag. But since Romania is still Europe, and (while earning less than the cost of a single pair of shoe they made) those Romanian workers got good money (by local standards) and proper working conditions. So most people, including me, were not really mad about it, since they were still well made and LV was not exploiting workers, they just exploited the system to pay the least that is possible within Europe. But those workshops are run by LV, they have the Damier pattern all over the facade, they are not a hidden sweatshop buried under a long chain of shady suppliers.
And this is exactly the reason why these twisted business practices emerged. To get back to the original culprits: all craftspeople should be Dior employees, directly employed and paid by Dior, all workshops should be owned and run by Dior, of course, meeting the highest safety and health regulations in the EU. But that would be very costly, so they'll just rather pay the fine after years-long investigations, long after people already forgot about the issue.
The only luxury brand that seems to do their manufacturing to these proper standards is Hermès. They lie about a LOT of stuff, their "handmade" bullsh*t is disgusting, but at least they don't make the Birkins in sweatshops.
Sorry for the long post, let me end this with an eye-opening documentary about the issue, in this case: Montblanc leather goods made with modern-day slavery, right in the heart of Europe:
The story went through social (and regular) media last summer, but the fire died down pretty quickly, and everything seemed to go back to normal (at least for the fashion houses). The investigations and the legal processes will take years, and in the end, everyone will get away with a small fine. Sad.
But I am always happy to remind people, and this also might be a very good time to think about these serious issues when people here are literally killing each other over the sacred Murakami drop, most of which was most probably manufactured the very same way as the infamous Dior Book Tote.
So, the story is that last year, the Italian authorities started to investigate Armani and Dior for using Chinese-run sweatshops in Italy.
Dior and Armani under investigation for exploiting workers at 'Chinese factories' in Italy
In the Milan region, Italian authorities have discovered undocumented workers living in dormitories in Chinese workshops supplying the Dior and Armani brands.
These are literally sweatshops, people working around the clock, 10-12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, for a few hundred € a month. The working conditions are horrible and dangerous, for our American friends: OSHA would be foaming at the mouth.
Workers live in the same building complexes as the sweatshops, so the production can be 0-24, one goes to sleep, the next steps in for the next 12-hour shift. This is literally modern-day slavery.
The workers are mostly poor Chinese and Pakistani people brought over with the promise of good money, and they also love to 'employ' migrants coming from the South. Probably this was one of the reasons why they got busted, since for many human rights organisations they are a focus these days, and when they found out that they are practically enslaved economically, the bells rang immediately.
These 2 names made the headlines, but I am sure that 1. every major brand does this and 2. and the gigantic (and extremely powerful) conglomerates did everything in their power to stop all their other brands from making headlines.
When the story broke, one interesting tidbit was that Dior paid 57€ to the sweatshop owners for a now €3000+ Book Tote. And sadly, THIS made the actual headlines all over YouTube/Insta/TikTok. How come Dior asking thousands from us, when they only pay €57 a piece? While the actual point of the story was that they are using slave labour.
But sadly, neither of these reasons stopped people from buying these amazing quality "Made in Europe" products. The funny thing is that these were all actually made in Italy. But the worst working conditions and the most vulnerable workers were imported first from the 3rd world, so that the Made-in tag won't lie.
I haven't found any info on Spain or France, if they have similar places (wouldn't surprise me), but it is a very big thing in Italy and Italians are aware of it, especially since the scandal happened, people discussed their experiences online and based on those it really feels like that this is a very widespread problem.
But since we are in the Louis Vuitton thread, let me give you my 2 cents. When I discovered the brand 15 years ago, most leather goods were made in France, the lower-end SLGs were made in Spain, the shoes were made in Italy, as were some of the high-end leather creations.
Back then their famous Taurillon leather was called Naxos, and most of the Naxos leather bags were made in Italy, those were the most excellent pieces they made. Back then it probably meant that the high-end leather was sourced in Italy, and they actually got them made in North-Italian workshops with experienced Italian craftspeople.
Well... since the scandal happened, their Made in Italy tag doesn't look the same as back then, when that only meant the the best Vuitton. And I am wondering if any of you noticed, but during the past year, their Made in Italy production skyrocketed. Many high-volume bags, TONS of SLGs are all made in Italy now. And the "is this OK?" thread is flooded with people complaining about quality with the recent releases, while the now infamous Made in Italy tag is more and more present in the pictures.
The scandal kinda explains the downfall of quality, and the last people to blame for them are the workers. When you have minutes to sew up a card holder with no breaks, 12-hour shifts and practically no way to escape, the millimeter misalignment will be your last concern. Unless the Dior, Armani and the rest refused to pay for those faulty products, then the sweatshop owner would enforce more precision, but this current level is an acceptable balance for all parties. Resulting in lesser quality and lots of suffering.
Funny how years ago it turned out that their Made in Italy shoes are all "fake" in that sense, since their actual shoe workshops are in Romania. They just put on the soles in Italy to earn the tag. But since Romania is still Europe, and (while earning less than the cost of a single pair of shoe they made) those Romanian workers got good money (by local standards) and proper working conditions. So most people, including me, were not really mad about it, since they were still well made and LV was not exploiting workers, they just exploited the system to pay the least that is possible within Europe. But those workshops are run by LV, they have the Damier pattern all over the facade, they are not a hidden sweatshop buried under a long chain of shady suppliers.
And this is exactly the reason why these twisted business practices emerged. To get back to the original culprits: all craftspeople should be Dior employees, directly employed and paid by Dior, all workshops should be owned and run by Dior, of course, meeting the highest safety and health regulations in the EU. But that would be very costly, so they'll just rather pay the fine after years-long investigations, long after people already forgot about the issue.
The only luxury brand that seems to do their manufacturing to these proper standards is Hermès. They lie about a LOT of stuff, their "handmade" bullsh*t is disgusting, but at least they don't make the Birkins in sweatshops.
Sorry for the long post, let me end this with an eye-opening documentary about the issue, in this case: Montblanc leather goods made with modern-day slavery, right in the heart of Europe:
Makes it no more better than “fast fashion” then you get all these people on their high horses saying they buy into LV for their “craftsmanship” yada yada..
This is precisely why I look after my OGs vintage collection and if I am going to buy more murakami it will be vintage !!!
Thanks for the post… 😉😉
I agree. I’m exchanging the bag and hoping for the best with the next.
As consumers, we need to buy less or none.
It ridiculous to spend premium money while these companies lie to us for their own gain.
It ridiculous to spend premium money while these companies lie to us for their own gain.