i am very sad about this and i will give all my best to stay away from chanel. i don't want to pay for a lie!
My professor told me Chanel bags are all made in China but assembled in Europe?
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This would totally explain why often vintage Chanel purses are better quality than the new ones. I now will have to think twice before making another Chanel purchase...
There is no difference. They just have different places where the stamp of "made in" is applied. I think it's just a psychological thing of, "Chanel must be made in France as that's where Coco Chanel had her business."
That article is right on the money (*cough*), and if you look at the time frame, it's mid 1990's, which if you ask some of us "old timers" here, is about the time many say Chanel (and others, not just Chanel) started going downhill. Is this a coincidence? I don't think so. As soon as they started seeing HUGE amounts of money to be made, despite or right along with the downturn in many economies, the big corporations moved around and started pumping out dollars...I mean products (clothes/bags/shoes, etc.).
The thing to keep in mind is it's not just Chanel, and it's not just bags. It's clothes, it's leather goods (bags, wallets, etc.), sunglasses, perfume, anything with a brand name to it. That means it includes most, if not all in some way, of the major brands. It also includes fine jewelry, with most of the bigger names not immune.
That's only partly right. EU customs law says that certain products - like textiles which are what purses are made from - have to be finished in whatever country the "made in ..." tag claims the product was made. The EU allows this for a vast number of products and they call it "non-preferential origin" when two or more countries are involved in a product's manufacture
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_custom...es_origin/non-preferential/article_410_en.htm
Articles 24 CC states: "Goods whose production involved more than one country shall be deemed to originate in the country where they underwent their last, substantial, economically justified processing or working in an undertaking equipped for that purpose and resulting in the manufacture of a new product or representing an important stage of manufacture".
It's not just Chanel and it's not just limited to the textile industry either
Marketing ( print, run way, Hollywood bag give aways , web site etc.) is added to the end bag cost and Chanel has a hefty budget. Plus SA's have significant " at risk" compensation, so when you allocate all expenses back to cost of goods than add profit you have a costly good ...
'Hand made' has nothing to do with where the supplies came from. If parts were assembled by hand, the item is 'hand made'.What about Dior and Hermes? I thought they were hand made. Is that a lie too?!
As far as I recall, LV (as an example) used to have bags entirely made in China. At some point, they were required by law to have the 'made in China' stamp on those bags (not good for marketing), and to avoid that they moved parts of the manufacturing process back to Europe and US.
I was told in one of my trips to China many years ago, that some special LV replicas were made by LV employees there as 'second' jobs. Things have changed substantially in China from the times you could have a silk dress hand made there for 25 cents. However, the big companies got used to the huge profits of those times and one way to keep them is to unreasonably increase the prices of their items. One could ask, where the mega profits go?
From the point of view of a marketing major, it's us consumers that allow Chanel and all other high-end brands to continue ridiculously jacking up the prices for cheaply made bags because we CONTINUE to buy them. We can not be naive and say that these bags are all hand-made in France/Italy because it simply is not true. They are a business and as any business would do, they will find any way possible to increase their profit margin if customers are still purchasing and the demand is high.
Realistically, all of us are not paying $6000+ for a bag just because it's "great quality" because you definitely can get "great quality" bags for 1/50 of the price. We are paying these prices for the BRANDING, and Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld has done darn well with their branding for women to want to continue buying these bags for the amount of car down payments. You will never get them to stop the ridiculous price increases on their cheaply-made products unless we stop buying from Chanel...but will that really happen?
Realistically, all of us are not paying $6000+ for a bag just because it's "great quality" because you definitely can get "great quality" bags for 1/50 of the price. We are paying these prices for the BRANDING, and Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld has done darn well with their branding for women to want to continue buying these bags for the amount of car down payments. You will never get them to stop the ridiculous price increases on their cheaply-made products unless we stop buying from Chanel...but will that really happen?
From the point of view of a marketing major, it's us consumers that allow Chanel and all other high-end brands to continue ridiculously jacking up the prices for cheaply made bags because we CONTINUE to buy them. We can not be naive and say that these bags are all hand-made in France/Italy because it simply is not true. They are a business and as any business would do, they will find any way possible to increase their profit margin if customers are still purchasing and the demand is high.
Realistically, all of us are not paying $6000+ for a bag just because it's "great quality" because you definitely can get "great quality" bags for 1/50 of the price. We are paying these prices for the BRANDING, and Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld has done darn well with their branding for women to want to continue buying these bags for the amount of car down payments. You will never get them to stop the ridiculous price increases on their cheaply-made products unless we stop buying from Chanel...but will that really happen?
This is true for Chanel, Hermes, LV, and for any other brand that use the same approaches. At the end, we (the buyers) are all guilty.
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If Chanel does outsource to China, it also explains all the super fakes that are being produced there. I hate to think the double C logo means Chanel China.
thats true... wow... what about lv? i saw once super fake, i couldn't believe it((
I am aware of lavish parties, brand-feeding parasites, etc, but I'm curious about the SA's "at risk compensation"; what do you mean by that? I always thought they were regular SAs, so pardon my ignorance.