Designer bags and accessories - that's how you recognize fakes when shopping
Anela Franjkovic (pictured here on the left of Rebelle founder Cecile Gaulke) is an expert in luxury fashion and accessories and works for Rebelle.de as a quality inspector. That is, it controls the goods of the online shop for designer second-hand fashion on their authenticity? every single product sold through Rebelle.de goes through her hands and is tested by her expert opinion.
Do you know that? They've made a real bargain at the flea market or on Ebay: a designer part at a fraction of the original price, maybe a vintage piece from a previous decade. The joy of the find is great? but if there were not this nagging doubt about the authenticity of the second hand treasure. What if it is not an original? Then the price you paid would have been far too high. Anyway, you do not want to flaunt product tampering from China proudly.
With a little bit of know-how you can avoid falling for fakes and getting annoyed about a bad buy afterwards.
Some people have even turned this expertise into a profession. For example, Anela Franjkovic, who works for Rebelle.de, an online shop where users can sell and buy luxurious second-hand fashion. She is responsible for quality control at Rebelle. In other words, it guarantees that Rebel users will only get genuine products. We met the expert for luxury fashion in the Hamburg area of Rebelle for an interview? and got tips on recognizing fakes.
For each brand, she and her team set assessment criteria to identify an original or a fake. These include, for example, material, processing, logo and packaging. When reviewing the products, they look at these criteria and then determine the direction in which the traits point and whether they are original or counterfeit.
These are her tips:
Designer fashion: how to recognize fakes
