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Designer Impostors

Designer Impostors

Label Whores: Selling Fake Fashion? Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad

Ever wonder if your H&M dress could pass for its designer original? We do, and that's why we are bringing back Label Whores, in which we sew designer labels on cheap chic clothing and attempt to fake out some of the snobbiest sartorialists out there: big city consignment store buyers. In today's installment, we travel to the "hippest" neighborhoods in New York (East Village, Williamsburg) with four H&M items masquerading as Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Gucci, and Pamela Barish. The results, after the jump. More »

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Label Whores Head To Tampa

When we heard that Jezebel's Jennifer Gerson was heading off to Tampa for the Memorial Day weekend, we couldn't resist the opportunity to ask her to take her faux designer clothes with her and see what the good people of Florida would say about her wares. We'd desperately hoped that Floridians would disprove the snobbishness that ran rampant among the East Village shopkeepers during Jennifer's outing in NYC's East Village the previous week. And, in a way, they - er, she - did. The details on what went down after the jump. More »

designer impostors

Label Whores Hit The East Village

Are people as superficial as they were when we were 13 and the girls in our 8th grade class checked our Forenza cable-knit sweaters for authenticity? Turns out that yes, they sometimes are! Welcome to Label Whores, in which we sew designer labels into cheap and mid-range clothes and see how much money we can get for them. In today's installment, Jennifer (with help from best-bud Zaby) hits up three consignment stores in NYC's East Village with four fake labels, four new pieces of clothing, and an inquiring mind. Here's what they used, and where they went: More »