[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.