Piper Palin's Louis Vuitton Purse is FAKE!
Piper Palin's Louis Vuitton Purse is FAKE!
Wow. The comments and emails are pouring in. Turns out, Gov. Sarah Palin's 7-year old daughter Piper's "Louis Vuitton" handbag is a big stinkin' fake!
Like I previously wrote, I don't really keep track of new Louis Vuitton bags, especially their monogram canvas line, so I'm no authenticity expert. I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt and ask my readers because, for all I know, there might be new pieces out there that I'm personally not aware of. I did mention what I knew about the Speedy because, like everyone else (including their dog and their mother), I own one. There's just something suspicious about the trimming on the side, the "feet", the handles... everything! The details on Piper Palin's bag raised alarm bells!
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Here are several variations of the Speedy bag at eLuxury.
I've never seen a speedy-doppelganger with "feet".
Also, many, if not all, Louis Vuitton Speedy owners can attest that the bag looks a bit floppy when you put something inside due to the lack of boards or inner structure.
A lot of customers complain about this that it prompted some opportunists to come up with a solution.
People on eBay are making big bucks selling these so-called $15 "bag boards" or "base shapers" that you put inside the Speedy to keep the base flat.
Amazing eh?
Meanwhile, a reader named Amy from California sent me this note via email.
The photo of Piper Palin actually shows her carrying a counterfeit "Louis Vuitton" bag, The Palin family supports terrorism, human trafficking, and child prostitution amongst other things from supporting the sale of counterfeit luxury goods.
Here's an NY Times article that dips into this subject:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/opinion/30thomas.html
As you can see, she has no trouble buying counterfeit goods off the streets of NYC as a "souvenir" for her child because she is too ignorant to know that another 7 year old in China labored all day to build that knock-off and won't be paid more than 50 cents for a day's work although it can fetch up to $500 in the American counterfeit marketplace. I bet Piper makes more than that an hour selling Polar Bear Pops at her mommy's street hockey games in Alaska.
Amen to that! Why on earth is Piper Palin carrying a Louis Vuitton (or in this case, Louie Weeton) handbag in the first place? She's seven! Seven!
OK, maybe I'm bitter because I didn't get my first LV bag (BY FORCE) till I was like 12 or 13 but that's only because I'm thieving bitch and I used to raid my mom's closet and play dress up whenever she's gone! JK.
I think I'm not gonna comment on whether it's tasteless or not for the Palin camp to be doing things like this, especially during campaign season. When you think about it, the same applies to many of us anyway -- how can you wear so and so when people are starving left and right yaddi yaddi yadda.
The point is... the poor child is carrying a fake. And, as Amy pointed out, that's very disturbing.
Have they not heard of Bag, Borrow or Steal?
That's all.
*photo credit: huffington post, eluxury, ebay
