Designer Handbag Bible

Balenciaga is famous for its bright colors. Nicole Richie has one small classique bag in mustard yellow a few years ago. This color was sold out everywhere thereafter. I cannot even find it on ioffer.

Finally here it comes.

It claims it is made of imported cowhide. Authentic Balenicaga is made of goatskin, its leather is paper-thin and buttery soft. It looks imported cowhide has some very distressed pattern as the real Balenicaga leather. But we can expect cowhide is more stiff and thicker than goatskin.

Nicole Richie has her lovely mustard yellow small classique.

Tags: Balenciaga by Lucy
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The first time when I saw this replica Jimmy Choo photo, I almost thought it is a real bag because it looks the same as the authentic Jimmy Choo Ramona Bag.

This is the authentic Ramona from Lindsay Lohan:

stunning look-alike?? I found this replica from eBay. I had thought they are almost the same until I went to Harrods to touch this Ramona myself. The authentic Ramona leather is very thin, soft and smooth. The replica Ramona bag my friend bought is made of much thicker leather, therefore it is not soft at all. This thicker leather also makes the bag look less sloughy. Well, if you never feel the leather of the real Ramona, you might think this replica is an authentic bag because every details of this replica looks the same as the authetic bag!

There is a beige Ramona from Keira Knightley.

a dark brown Ramona from Harry Berry

The forever chic Posh Becks

And here comes Jimmy Choo ads with Nicole Richie
I still remember her look in Simple Life I. She turned a cute girl with baby-fat into a fashion icon that is followed by many girls.

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One of my friends bought a Givenchy nightingale bag from US ONLINE. It costs $300. It doesn’t take a genius to know it is a fake. But my friend is actually quite happy about its quality – very soft leather is the point.

The other friend of mine bought one from Harrods, which costs her near £800, which is $1600.

The $300 one has the creamy cloth lining and the $1600 one has the black cloth lining. Does creamy lining means fake?

NO! The light golden hardware nightingale has the black cloth lining while the gunmetal hardware nightingale has the creamy lining.

Have a look at Nicole Richie’s bag here. She didn’t zip the bag. The black cloth lining was disclosed. And her bag has light golden hardware.

Now take a look at Ashley’s bag. here is a close up of her bag. You can have a peek at the lining right under her arm. It is creamy! And her bag is gunmetal nightingale!

Here is Reeze Witherspoon with her medium size gunmetal nightingale with creamy lining – can you see the llining from the photo? I wonder why nobody bother zipping the bag. There is one simple answer: there is no need to do it.

I compared two bags in front of me: fake and real. The real bag is much lighter in weight!!!

The real bag is made of very thin distressed leather – I think that is lambskin. The bag is very light and the leather is buttery soft!

The fake golden hardware bag is also made of thin soft leather, but the leather is not distressed. From its grainy-pattern you can tell it is cowhide, but it is thin soft cowhide.

The fake gunmetal hardware bag is made of THICK soft leather. This leather is much thicker than the leather from a fake golden hardware bag. It is strange, isn’t it? My sources told me these bags were made in different factories, which made their leather diffferent.

I can say these replica bags are 98% mirror image bags from the photos because you cannot feel the leather or lift the bag. That 2% difference goes to the grainy-look leather. If you know leather, you can see it’s grainy leather and it is cowhide.

Tags: Givenchy by Lucy
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