faking it

the Wall Street Journal article, "The Finer Art of Faking it" discusses how its becoming more difficult to differentiate between a fake luxury good & a real luxury good.

this is why i never buy the vintage Chanel handbags that i see at the flea markets & vintage stores. i probably see at least 10 Chanel bags on average during every flea market trip & although the vendors always insist that its a real Chanel purse I know that a real vintage Chanel anything would never be that cheap. i'm sure that its entirely possible for someone to happen upon a real Chanel purse & buy it for a ridiculously low price, but i think that the odds of that happening are about 1 to 1,000,000,000,000 and that you're better off saving your money to buy a real Chanel purse from a trustworthy vintage store, Decades Two for instance, or from the actual Chanel store.

i'm assuming that her Chanel is real? :)