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Seems to me that is very short sighted business model. Selling Chinese sweatshop producs as luxury goods eventually devalues the brand.
by rapsey 2y ago
Seems to me that is very short sighted business model. Selling Chinese sweatshop producs as luxury goods eventually devalues the brand.
- conception 2y agoStocks go up a long time before anyone involved cares about the aftermath. Then Broadcom will buy them and squeeze the last juice from the rock.
- arcticbull 2y agoI mean it hasn't yet. It's been decades.
- kibwen 2y agoNobody ever got rich betting against Barnum's Law.
- conception 2y agoWe may be well into the juice stage.
- rapsey 2y agoHas it been decades since they outsorced the manufacture?
- arcticbull 2y agoDigging into it a little, it looks like the Reguzzoni-Versace-Calearo law passed in Italy in 2010 to allow labeling products "Made in Italy" if at least two major assembly steps took place in Italy. This was itself a reaction to the prior lack of regulation around this labeling, which saw makers use Eastern Europe and China as far back as the 90s and stamp Made in Italy on the goods. I'd say give or take it's been happening for as much as 30 years, if not longer.
- AlexandrB 2y agoIt only devalues the brand if you lower the price or the quality drops below a critical threshold. There are a lot of people with money but no ability to gauge quality in something like clothes. That's not very surprising since modern society is hyper-specialized. I know nothing about sewing or fabrics so I can't gauge quality in clothes beyond basics like "feel" either. Lowering the price, on the other hand, signals that the brand is now lower quality or less exclusive. Everyone understands that.
- amarcheschi 2y agoFeel and hand can be deceiving too due to resins and coatings that might be applied to the yarns to make them softer, although they might be eventually washed away and/or give poor breathing properties. I've found reddit and even moreso styleforum to be of help when needing to evaluate the quality of a brand. Although at a certain price point you get improvements that aren't really perceivable such as mother of pealr buttons, i'd rather get a custom shirt than pay more for a ready to wear shirt with MoP buttons that fits poorly due to me being short and thin but slightly muscular in the shoulders
- rapsey 2y agoHowever we are also in a hyper connected world. One tiktok is literally enough to expose and kill a brand.
- maxglute 2y agoHigh quality Chinese sweat shop products. I feel like many rich hardly care about labour conditions as long as quality fine and branding legimitate considering they're the ones enforcing said conditions.