How to spot a fake Louis Vuitton bag?
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Oct 19, 2013
Yolande P.
My mum purchased one a while ago now and gave it to me I used it once and want to sell it but I don't know if its real or fake,please help girls oh btw I have the purse too.
Oct 19, 2013
Shrika E.
Picture please?I can help then!
Oct 19, 2013
Maria K.
Where did your mum get it from?
Oct 19, 2013
Shrika E.
Materials.?Not all designer bags are made of leather. For example, Louis Vuitton is coated canvas with leather trim. If the trim is supposed to be leather, it should feel dry? not oily, slippery or sticky. The hardware should be heavy? not hollow. If it?s imprinted with the designer?s name, make sure it?s supposed to be.
Workmanship.?The stitching should be perfectly even, with no loose threads or back-and-forth stitching at the end of a seam? that?s a sign of sloppy construction. Check the seams for matching?whether of the quilting on a Chanel bag, or the pattern on a Louis Vuitton. A company like Louis Vuitton, which values its logo, wouldn?t divide the letters in a seam. And where the pattern appears on either side of the seam, it should match precisely.
Lining.?Counterfeiters rarely have a good view of the inside of a bag. Typically they are working from photographs, which tend to distort color. So if you have gone to a boutique and seen the color in person, you immediately have an advantage. It should be precisely the same shade as the real thing?not a close approximation.
Pockets.?Here too, it?s easy for counterfeiters who are working off photographs, rather than copying the real thing, to get it wrong. Scafidi has a fake Chanel tote on which copyists omitted the pocket on the back,?and a Coach on which they included the the back pocket but added a zipper.
Place of manufacture.?Some counterfeiters routinely mark Louis Vuitton knockoffs?Made in France.? But as it happens, at least one line was made in Spain. An example: a collaboration between Louis Vuitton?s creative director Marc Jacobs, and the artist Takashi Murakami featuring cherry blossoms with whimsical smiley-face centers against the company?s classic brown toile background.
Misspellings.?In her collection of counterfeit bags Scafidi has a Coach labeled?eatherware? (the?L? in the word is omitted). Goyard counterfeiters made an even more egregious error, spelling the company?s name?Gooyar? on both the printed canvas of the bag and its dust cover. That?s a dead giveaway.
Oct 19, 2013
Shrika E.
I got it from forbes.com.
Oct 19, 2013
Yolande P.
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Yolande P.
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Yolande P.
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Yolande P.
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Yolande P.
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Yolande P.
Oct 19, 2013
Amanda F.
Compare a real one to the one you own and if they have the same features it's good.
Oct 19, 2013
Shrika E.
I have a feeling the belt is fake but the bag looks real.
Oct 19, 2013
Yolande P.
There is no belt its the bag strap.
Oct 20, 2013
Shrika E.
Oh well the strap looks a bit fake because the stiching doesn't look real!But who cares?At the end of the day only you know if its real or fake!Keep it and show it off!