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Your article on counterfeit luxury merchandise, "The Purse-Party Blues" [Aug. 2], never asked why Louis Vuitton or any other high-end manufacturer deserves to be paid $1,500 for a handbag when, as you reported, "a 40-ft. container filled with fake bags can turn a profit of $2 million to $4 million" at $35 a purse. Is the quality of the real designer bag truly worth so much more? Perhaps not, since the president of the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition maintains that "the machines that companies use as legitimate manufacturers are also available to the bad guys...
Inside Louis Vuitton's sleek flagship store on New York City's Fifth Avenue, customers are ogling the now ubiquitous Murakami Speedy, a monogram handbag that sells for $1,500 and is carried by such A-list celebs as J. Lo and Reese Witherspoon. Four blocks south, the same bag--or what looks like it, anyway--can be had for $35. A California woman, in town with her fiance last week, was spotted perusing a table stacked with fake Vuitton, Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs handbags. She was looking for a new Vuitton bag because the strap...
...become so quotidian that only the naivete of a child can expose the strangeness of it. As an Israeli woman walked along the street with her 4-year-old daughter recently, an Ethiopian passed them. "Mommy," the girl said, "why didn't you show him what's inside your handbag?" No matter how high Israelis build their fence, that girl may well be opening her own bag to an Ethiopian when she's fully grown. --With reporting by Aharon Klein
...Every summer fashionistas from Milan to Montauk gravitate to one "it" handbag, but this season three silhouettes?all from British design houses?are dominating the red-hot luxury leather-goods market. And they're not the usual logo-laden suspects...
...magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Every summer fashionistas from Milan to Montauk gravitate to one "it" handbag, but this season three silhouettes - all from British design houses - are dominating the red-hot luxury leather-goods market. And they're not the usual logo-laden suspects. Both Mulberry and Tanner Krolle, two classic English accessory houses, have undergone serious renovations in the past few years with new investors...