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Magazine|Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/magazine/celine-chanel-gucci-superfake-handbags.html * Give this article * * * 1.9k Credit...Grant Cornett for The New York Times. Set designer: JoJo Li. Skip to content Sections INSIDE THE DELIRIOUS RISE OF ‘SUPERFAKE’ HANDBAGS Can you tell the difference between a $10,000 Chanel bag and a $200 knockoff? Almost nobody can, and it’s turning luxury fashion upside down. Credit...Grant Cornett for The New York Times. Set designer: JoJo Li. Supported by Continue reading the main story * Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Give this article * * * 1.9k * Read in app By Amy X. Wang Photographs by Grant Cornett * Published May 4, 2023Updated May 5, 2023, 9:09 a.m. ET LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE Audio Recording by Audm Listen 27:21 Once upon a time, the legend goes, Theseus slew the Minotaur and sailed triumphantly home to Athens on a wooden ship. The vessel was preserved by Athenian citizens, who continually replaced its rotting planks with strong, fresh timber so a pilgrimage to Delos could be made each year in their hero’s name. Fascinated by this mythical tale, the philosopher Plutarch found it to embody a “logical question of things that grow”: After Theseus’s ship had been stripped of all its original material, could it still be considered the same ship? His question has caromed through centuries of Western thought. What if, Thomas Hobbes wondered, someone rustled up a second boat out of the discarded planks; would you now have two original vessels? And what about our own era of machine-made duplication — does replication strip away the soul of creation? Not long ago, I found myself wandering through Paris with a fake Celine handbag slung over my shoulder. In France, a country that prides itself on originating so much of the world’s fashion, punishments for counterfeiting are severe, to the point that I technically risked three years in prison just by carrying my little knockoff around. But the bag’s fraudulence was undetectable to human eyes. I was toting around a delicious, maddening secret: Like a ship remade with identical wood, the bag on my arm had been built on the same plan, with seemingly the same gleaming materials, as the “original.” Yet it was considered inauthentic, a trick, a cheat. Which Chanel is real? Click your guess: FAKE Classic Chanel, retail price: $390 Grant Cornett for The New York TimesREAL Classic Chanel, retail price: $10,200 Grant Cornett for The New York Times Advertisement Continue reading the main story COMMENTS 1897 Inside the Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ HandbagsSkip to Comments Share your thoughts. 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