Lvmh Wins Victory Over Bootleg Bags

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LVMH Busts Bootleg Bags


New Yorkers who have planned to incorporate a knock off Fendi or Louis Vuitton bag into their wardrobe should dash down to Canal street immediately. Last week, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton scored a victory against 29 Chinatown retailers selling counterfeit goods as a federal judge ordered each company to pay $16 million in statutory damages. Which means LVMH could see a total award of $464 million. That would surely take care of some of the conglomerate's debt.

Fashion.net

 

[purreow*]

Wow. It's actually about time this happened.

 

[faust]

I hope it means less LV logos on the streets of NYC - which translates into less vomiting sensations for me.

 

[Alejandro]

'bout time

 

[Ms. Diorella]

Originally posted by faust@Sep 9 2004, 01:54 PM
I hope it means less LV logos on the streets of NYC - which translates into less vomiting sensations for me.

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Unfortunately i think anyone who would ever want a fake Lv already has one haha i'm sure there will be many vomiting sensations to come faust...unfortunately .

I hope they take care of all the websites that sell fakes and such.

 

[brian]

Originally posted by Ms. Diorella@Sep 9 2004, 01:23 PM
Unfortunately i think anyone who would ever want a fake Lv already has one haha i'm sure there will be many vomiting sensations to come faust...unfortunately

agreed!

 

[Theory]

They will never be able to get a handle on the websites, they shut down and open up on a weekly basis. I think its next to impossible to control that medium.........

Originally posted by Ms. Diorella@Sep 9 2004, 03:23 PM
Unfortunately i think anyone who would ever want a fake Lv already has one haha i'm sure there will be many vomiting sensations to come faust...unfortunately .

I hope they take care of all the websites that sell fakes and such.

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[mikeijames]

Originally posted by faust@Sep 9 2004, 12:54 PM
I hope it means less LV logos on the streets of NYC - which translates into less vomiting sensations for me.

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haha won't happen and if it does, they'll just be replaced with more fake gucci and dior and prada...which don't even look real anymore.

 

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Louis Vuitton taking a shining to Shanghai

AP

SHANGHAI, China -- Louis Vuitton opened a glamorous new Shanghai boutique yesterday, defying Chinese copycats who have flooded world markets with cheap knockoffs of its handbags. Gilt-lined LV steamer trunks and models wearing fur-lined coats and stiletto heels abounded as Louis Vuitton executives christened the spacious outlet, said to be China's biggest luxury-brand store, in the Plaza 66 mall on ritzy Nanjing West Road.

Though counterfeiters operate brazenly in Shanghai and other cities, luxury-goods makers like Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani and other big-name brands say they believe China is following up on promises to crack down on fake products and that the market is too lucrative to ignore.

Protection of trademarks and other intellectual property "has seen tremendous improvement over the last two years," said Christopher Zanardi-Landi, Louis Vuitton's general manager for China. "We've seen extraordinary changes. It's an ever-improving situation."

Asked for examples, Zanardi-Landi noted a recent announcement in Beijing that the government would enforce a ban on counterfeit products in local markets notorious for selling them.

There's been little evidence of that in Shanghai.

Earlier yesterday, south of Nanjing Road, pedlars of fake brand bags were operating openly in the city's best-known open air bazaar, Xiangyang Market.

There, "Gucci" and "Dior" bags were in plentiful supply.

Though the pedlars' stalls do not openly display Louis Vuitton bags, they did show visitors catalogues of products to be found at stores on side streets.

Sellers of counterfeit bags aggressively chased after potential customers, waving leaflets describing the products available at a fraction of the prices charged for the real thing.

Zanardi-Landi noted that for Louis Vuitton, which sells its products only through its own outlets, there would be little possibility of duping a customer into believing he or she was buying the real thing when it was a fake.

 

[Spike413]

does this mean no more nasty lookin Murakami knock-offs? Oh happy day (oh happy day).....