Yesterday on the train, David says, “Really you can tell if a bag is fake by looking at the girl. Just check out her outfit. If it screams Old Navy, you’re probably not standing next to a YSL bag.”
The problem is, there’s always Goyard totes, which are so obscurely ugly they’re only really pretty to fashion people (see also: Rodarte, Viktor & Rolf, Snejana…)
So when you see the outfit, you really can’t tell.
Like now.
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i totally disagree with david: “Really you can tell if a bag is fake by looking at the girl. Just check out her outfit. If it screams Old Navy, you’re probably not standing next to a YSL bag.â€Â
just b/c someone isn’t covered in designer duds, that doesn’t equate a fake accessory in my opinion.
I disagree with the comment about Old Navy. I wear my designer bags with my Forever 21…and my friends mix American Eagle with Gucci…but only on the weekends? Or reason? Sample sales and employee discounts at the high end…and the low end for variety.
I dont know I see quite a few fashionable & affluent women toting Goyard; I think your dismissal is rash?
I also have noticed that fake bags have proliferated: imo in almost every case Im seeing fakes, espec of the most iconic chanel, balenciaga etc styles. so I agree with david, and I’ll go 1 further- unless the quality & $$ of the girl’s clothes aqre symmetrical with the make of bag she carries, its FAKE,. I see so many FAKES. I agree that the rest of the outfit has to match the quality of the bag or it is FAKE
You people are so narrow minded. What ever happened to the applause for high – low style? I wear a ton of “Old Navy style” (including Forever 21, Target ect.) and I also own Chloe handbags. I own high end “Barney’s style” clothing and I wear them with a bag I got from Old Navy with equal gusto.
Grow up and realize that not everyone can be dressed from head to toe in designer — nor should they be — I wouldnt want to be a walking representation of something I saw on the runway or in Vogue. What about personal style? What about originality? You really can not sit there and believe people like “David” who jump to conclusions about a persons wealth or status based on their probability to wear Old Navy ect.
Seriously — this post makes me not want to read this blog anymore
so be it Ive never worn old navy ever & ive also never been in a target or forever 21. so there .
chloe’s nice but there are wayyy better uptown styles than datt . look at jil sander, burberry, LV, armani… need i go on?
i’ve tried to comment on this 3 times already..let’s see if this one makes it through..
to put everything into context, i work for a major designer and we take the preservation of our brand name very seriously. that said, all of us here are great at spotting fakes. IS and I were speaking about the many different ways to tell if a bag is fake simply by inspecting the bag. i then added that since only 1% of all designer bags one sees are genuine, if you can’t tell, just check out what the girl’s wearing..(because someone decked out in prada wouldn’t be caught dead with a fake).
“Bee,” I’m sorry to say but it looks as if you’ve missed the point entirely…you say you pair your “Barney’s style” clothing with real Old Navy bags — but this is not what our discussion was about. we we’re talking about pairing “Old Navy style” clothing with fake designer bags. this second type of pairing is what “our†conversation focused on.
let me be the first to shed light on this topic for you: fake designer bags are not original or stylish at all. furthermore, pairing a fake designer bag with ANY outfit is equally unoriginal and unstylish. so “Bee,†from all of us that work hard to protect the integrity of what these great designers of past and present have created – please refrain from such practices. -d
i always rock gucci and chanel with old navy – true fashion is mixing it up
here is what I think works probably 50 to 70 percent of the time.
if the person is over fifty – real
everyone else – if the person has expensive looking shoes on- real
I was not saying that you should buy fakes…I was saying that people like you need to get over yourself “david”
Also I never anywhere in my post said that I carry around fake bags. I agree that you should protect the integrity of the designers work…but you dont need to assume anything about anyone because of the clothes or shoes that they have paired with it.
SHALLOW!
Uh Old Grey Lady — you seem a bit off topic. Where did anyone say that Chloe was the best uptown style? Chloe has been hit or miss for awhile and despite the “it bag” craze it has gone through…I still really like “style” and vibe that Chloe has.
We shall see where they go in the Paulo Melim Anderssen era…no Phoebe I’m sure…
However I always like the cool girl / feminine — without being too girly / creative look that Chloe’s designs and handbags have.
I don’t shop by label anymore…I buy what I fall in love with.
Whether that is Chloe or Lanvin or Old Navy or Forever 21…
i have to agree with heidi 100%.
re: pretty goyard bags; my dad always says, “those who know, know…”
he’s over fifty, and pretty real.
I like what david & heidi said , espec david about only 1% of luxe bags being genuine.
and melissa i agree, if youre going luxe gucci is among my tip top picks, and chanel not far behind.
I can’t afford the real thing so I don’t buy it. Nor do I buy fakes because the money goes to mafia and terrorists.
I do buy “real” bags from Marshalls/T.J.Maxx/Loehmans, and the Coach factory outlet. Not as posh but if I like it I don’t care what others think. I’d love an LV bag and trunk. But I’d also like to see more zeros in my nest egg. The nest egg wins.
1 – I was only slightly interested in Goyard – until I picked one up and looked in the mirror. Yeah, they are nice. But – no way $2000 for a coated fabric, leather handled messanger bag.
2 – I work with a girl (mid-30′s at most) who would NEVER buy a fake bag or wallet. She has many of both – marc jacobs, LV, mulberry, Dior & chole, but she dresses in modest clothing & shoes because she’s only into the bags & wallets. However, she’s recently been eyeing a pair of LV sunglasses…
Hrmmm. I don’t like being mean, but David appears to be misguided. I buy authentic bags only & wear non designer clothes with them all the time (H&M, Old Navy, etc.) Just because I choose to wear a cute cheapo dress doesn’t mean the Marc Jacobs bag on my shoulder isn’t real.
I can understand his frustration towards those that carry fake or replica bags because I personally don’t like what they represent either. But at the same time to make such a general speculation like that just seems a little shallow. Then again maybe this was taken out of context of a conversation (I always want to give the benefit of doubt after all). Usually not everything is as it seems.
but joana looking at people on the street, dont you almost always say to your self ‘oh thats a fake bag, this person is not stylish or monied.’?
and i dont have enough emotion invested in it to get angry, but isnt it just a bit pitiful with such obvious fakes, which any tasteful person would Never carry a fake??
to your question “oldgrey lady” – honestly? no. its not what you carry but how you carry it. someone sporting an old navy bag could be doing it with as much taste as someone who is sporting something from a designer label. money doesn’t buy class, even if does buy labels. you can be stylish on a budget just as you can be unstylish with lots of money.
personally i can understand the sentiment of wanting an expensive bag. but this is why i save my cash for it. some people want it then and now so they buy into the cheap replica bag which is sad but its something that will continue to happen no matter how much we dislike it. why? because people will always dream big and want the next big thing if they can afford it or not.
i agree with david.
its easy to spot a fake bag
just by looking at the persons
outfit. not just the outfit
but their maintenance too.
nails, hair, makeup.
if ur wearing 5 dollar jeans
with a fat scrunchie in ur hair
and a shirt that matches ur
sneakers. most likely ur
bag, sunglasses or watever
is FAKE !!!
call me arrogent, call me
obnoxious. thats just the
way it is.
I would rather go naked than wear Old Navy. That being said, I am certainly NOT wealthy, nor do I own a plethora of designer bags, let alone designer items, and mixing high end fashion with low end is stylish if not necessary to maintain a “well kept” look on a tight budget. However, to all of you who said you pair American Eagle with Gucci and Chanel, if I saw you on the street, I would immediately suspect a fake.
If you can’t buy the real thing, don’t buy the fakes. I can’t buy the real thing and won’t buy fakes. IMO doing that is just you trying to be trendy and turning up trashy.
Have you seen some of the fakes around? They are superb. I own real Fendi, Mulberry, Chloe and Kooba , and a few of the copies of these are spot on and there appear to be no differences, not even subtle ones. I buy around two designer bags a month, but because I’m a bag addict I also buy fakes. My husband says why not just buy the real thing sweetheart?, but then there would be less money to spend on holidays and treats for my children, and everyone assumes I only carry the real thing anyway. As for the revenue from fakes going to terrorists, on the contrary, I think sometimes you are supporting some of the poorest people in those countries.
i am an over-50 woman who will wear a cheap dress and flip flops from the basement of filene’s basement (that’s cheap!) and carry a henry beguelin bag. i will also wear an expensive vintage geoffrey beene dress with valentino shoes and carry a fake hermes birkin. as for my “grooming,” i do my own manicures, have never had a facial in my life, and go to wella studio for free highlights, but i will spend a couple hundred dollars on a good haircut. in other words, i use common sense and don’t take all of this terribly seriously. and i agree with sindi, i have my doubts about the revenue from fakes going to the terrorists and the sopranos. designer “integrity” aside (an oxymoron if there ever was one, at least most of the time) i wonder if promoting that line it isn’t simply an awfully good way for hermes to squash everyone in their path. does anyone remember how ballistic they went when those first jelly birkins were being sold in the hamptons? quel piss-ant!
If you don’t have the money to buy the real thing than you should NEVER buy a fake. If you think that people don’t know that you are carrying a fake then you are dead wrong. Just b/c someone doesn’t say to you, “Hey I see you have a fake LV, Chanel, Gucci” or whatever doesn’t mean they don’t know. It is just like all those people that wear fake diamonds and think they are fooling people just b/c no one calls them out on it. People are aware of it they just don’t say anything b/c they don’t want to embaress you b/c obviously you can’t afford the real thing so your are wearing/carrying the fake around. I am not saying this to be rude or anything I am just being honest. Also, when you carry a fake, you know it is fake and what do you do when someone asks? Lie and say it is real? I can’t imagine you say “Oh no it is a rip off of the real thing b/c I can’t afford the real one”. You just shouldn’t carry fakes ever. I do however disagree with the OP b/c I know plenty of people who shop in Kitson and ON dress down and then will grab a REAL Chanel or Fendi or whatever and run out the door. You can’t truely use that as a judge.
Totally agree with carter.
Well i don\’t care and wont spit on people that use fake bags, well, this is their choice anyway.
Like me, i mix up LV or Hermes with cheap clothes ,vintage tee shirts or i just hang a cheap hello kitty plush toy on my designer bags.And i dont really care if people think its real or fake.i live in hong kong , where a lot people use fake bags. even you use real one , people still think their fake,but so what, its not a real shame to buy a fake bag if you got no money or unlikely to spend a ton to buy a designer bag.
i buy brands for quality and design, why buy a bag for 100 bucks that you may only use it for few months? if people think if they buy designer bag means their rich or stylish, i think its a bit stupid, money cant buy style.
again, sorry for my poor English.