[econcon]

Has anyone ever seen the luxury fashion items and where they come from? You find Chinese cramped up in small home shops, churning out the produce like bags with violation of all safety codes and they simply bribe the police in Italy.

Then luxuries Italian brands stamp their logo on top of it and it's ready to be sold in big city showrooms.

Heck, a lot of Italian shoe brands are buying their leather shoes from Uttar Pardesh, India.

Maybe not all luxury fashion brand production looks like this, but atleast some part does.

Come to India and buy your leather quality handmade shoes for less than $100 and let me know if you find any quality difference between $700 shoes and $100 shoes without lable.

[awongh]

maybe it's not completely clear from your comment, but those chinese workers are actually living and manufacturing the bags in italy: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/16/the-chinese-wo...

which has a very strange globalization / branding backwards logic to it. - chinese production costs low / high margins on branded good originating in italy, ok, we do chinese manufacturing but inside italy....

[Jaruzel]

... so they can stamp 'Made it Italy' on the bags, which obfuscates the fact that they are actually Chinese made. For fashionistas, the made in Italy stamp is very important.

Additionally... it saves on shipping completed bags from China to Europe.

[karatestomp]

> Heck, a lot of Italian shoe brands are buying their leather shoes from Uttar Pardesh, India.

... any online stores giving a straight line to those Indian shoes? They cheaper than, say, Meermin? Asking for a friend^w^w myself.

[namibj]

Yeah, I like my (laced) leather moccasins (with a polymer sole on the underside, and not covering my ankles), but they tend to get a bit expensive. Last time I had to pay 140 EUR/pair, compared to regular prices in the 40-80 EUR range for normal non-designer shoes (I was forced to an upscale shoe store, as the normal stores had no suitable moccasins).

[selimthegrim]

Maybe not UP but I think YC funded a Pakistani leather goods startup called Markhor

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Alibaba