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Speaker 2: That's my w y'all. And Man's is out there fighting
for their lives. The luxury brand is freaking out and
hidden back with lawsuits against the very Chinese factories that
just pulled the curtain back on one of their biggest
kept secrets. And let's be real, the fashion world is shook.
Here's the kicker. These aren't random counterfeit operation. These are
the actual manufacturers who've been crafting the same Berkins and
Kelly's that air Mez turns around and sells for twenty
thousand dollars in up and now they're spilling all the
behind the scenes tea about how those fancy made in
France labels might not be telling the full story. From
sneaky production shortcuts to leak documents and tiktoks go on viral,
this whole situation is exposing some major cracks in the
luxury game. Air Mez is in major damage control mode,
but it might be too late. The truth is out
and it's not looking pretty. So let's unpack this mess.
All right, Let's rewind to the big lie that kick
this whole mess off. For years, air Mez has been
selling this dream of luxury bags delicately handcrafted by elite
French artisans and charming little Parisian at Elie's. Sounds fancy, right,
but here's the real tea. New reports in some damning
receipts are saying that up to eighty percent of those
iconic bags aren't being made in France at all. Nope,
they're being produced in China. Not just piece together everything,
we're talking cutting the leather, stitching threadings start to finish.
Then once the bags make it to France, er Mez
allegedly adds a little hardware or stamps on them and
slaps on a maide in France because technically it was
made in France, just not ninety percent of it. So
when those Chinese factories decided to spill the beans and
back it up with receipts, am Mez absolutely flipped. Now
let's talk about Tanner leather sign. You know the guy
luxury brands probably wish would just go away. He's not
some random TikToker trying to stir the pot. He's a
legit leather expert with a solid following, and his whole
thing is buying designer bags and literally cutting them open
on camera to show what's really going on inside. Tanner's
been exposing the truth about these so called high end
brands for a minute now. He was the first to
call out Chanelle for ditching real gold hardware and using
them classic coated leather. He's taking shots, said Louis Vatan,
Botega Venetta and yup Airmez too. According to him, the
leather in these bags isn't much better than what you'd
find and a one hundred dollars due and the kicker
he broke down that making a burken actually costs around
six hundred dollars, including legit leather and solid hardware.
Speaker 3: I have spent over one hundred thousand dollars of my
own money dissecting luxury bags, cutting them open, analyzing every stitch,
every layer. Why because I had to know what made
those bags.
Speaker 2: Now imagine air Mez watching all this blow up, with
viral videos everywhere, people talking, and the truth spreading faster
than they can control it. The wild part is that
those Chinese factories weren't just making knockoffs. They were allegedly
producing the real bags for Airmez and then turn around
and expose the whole operation. Rumor has it, air Mez
is now allegedly threatening to sue some of these Chinese factories,
talking about intellectual property and defamation. At this point, it
feels like less protecting their brand and more like trying
to clean up a mess they didn't expect to go public.
Let's break it down for a second. Air Mez pulled
fifteen point two billion in revenue in twenty twenty four.
That's a lot of bad. Now if it supposedly takes
two full days to handcraft just one burkin, where exactly
is this magical army of French artisans quietly churning them
all out because the math isn't math. Something's not adding
up at all, and Airmez isn't the only one playing
this game. Brands like Prada, Chanelle and Louis Vatan have
been doing the same thing for years. They'll make the
bulk of a product, like ninety eight percent of it
in China, then attach a zipper or or sew on
a button in Italy just so they can legally slap
a made in Italy tag on. It's all marketing, smoke
and mirrors, and people buy into it because there's this
prestige that comes with European labels, But behind the scenes
it's just a very expensive con Who is.
Speaker 4: The Chinese supply by product based off of sitol haaback
in congensity pros. It's a factory specializing headbags for fifty
four years and you produce this eighty percent of the
world luxury backs.
Speaker 2: Now that people are starting to catch on, resale prices
are starting to drop. Folks are realizing they pay twenty
five K for a bag that came from the same
factory as a four hundred dollars due and Tanner pans
are showing us exactly what's inside these bags, ones that
claim to be full calf skin but are actually made
with cheap PU coded leather. It's got collectors second guessing
and buyers straight up mad because if Airmez isn't really
about quality or craftsmanship, then what exactly are we paying for?
Just the brand name, the illusion. Here's the thing. For years,
Western luxury brands have sod us this idea that made
in China means low quality, but that's just outdated. Chinese
factories today are making world class leather goods. They've got
the materials, the skills, and the machines to do it.
In fact, a lot of luxury brands are having their
products made in the same factories as mid range brands
and knockoffs. The only real difference is the label they
slap on at the end.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: Western media has really drilled it into people's heads that
made in China equals bad and made in Europe equals
high class. But when you take a closer look, it's
all just clever marketing. These brands aren't about craftsmanship, their
private equity owned machines cranking out over priced goods for
people who don't know any better. And now that consumers
are starting to catch on. The whole industry is freaking out,
and we have Tanner leather Steen to think. See, he's
not out here working for any brand or trying to
sell you anything. He's just showing his process, breaking down
materials and giving it to a strait. He even cut
open his eighteen hundred dollars wallet collection to show us
exactly what we're really paying for and what did he
find disappointment over and over again.
Speaker 3: Most of those bags I cut open just expensive, nothing special.
But if you truly exceptional.
Speaker 2: Let's keep it real. These designer brands wouldn't be where
they are without celebrities flexing their bags like status symbols.
You think they're just buying Burkins and Chanelle for fun.
Note most of the time those flags are either gifted
or they're getting paid to wear them. It's all part
of a strategy. The brand sends Kim Kardashian a sixty
thousand dollars bag and she posts it on Instagram. Suddenly
every influencer and fashion obsessed person out there is scrambling
to get one. You think you're buying luxury, but what
you're actually buying is that celebrity seal of approval. And
it's not just celebs anymore. Now, influencers are in the
game too. TikTok and Instagram are flooded with unboxing videos
showing off luxury halls. But what they don't tell you
is that most of those bags are pr drops or
brand partnerships. These creators are making serious money promoting bags
they didn't even pay for, pushing the idea that you
need a designer bag to be anybody.
Speaker 1: This my first bag I got this year. Are usually
get one bag a year, and this is the one
for this year, and I'm really excited about it.
Speaker 2: Let's dive into this Burken game for a minute. At
some point, only one became the ultimate status symbol. But
here's the thing. Ever, Mez doesn't just let anyone walk
in and buy one. It's not that simple. You have
to earn the right by spending tons of money on scarves, belts,
and whatever else they sell before they'll even consider offering
you a Burkin. That's not luxury. It's more like a
VIP club with a heavy price tag, and for some reason,
people are still lining up to get in. Let's not
forget about the resale aspect. A few years back, people
were flipping Burkens like they were hot properties. But now,
after Tanner's revelations and those factory leaks, prices are dropping quickly.
If the so called exclusive civity is just a marketing trick,
the quality is up for debate, and the bags are
coming from the same factories as knockoffs, why would anyone
pay top dollar anymore? Now people are starting to panic,
restellers are getting nervous, and investors are waking up to
the fact that luxury bags might not be the cash
cow they once stop. And honestly, this couldn't have come
at a worse time for them. Ever, since the US
hit China with those hefty tariffs on imports, global brands
have been forced to come clean and guess what. Airmez
is one of the brands that could feel the most impact,
Because when the majority of your French craftsmanship actually comes
from sin zen factories, you've got a serious problem on
your hands. Child. This is a hot mess, and y'all
best believe that fans are eating air Mess up. They've
been leaving comments like ladies finding out they can get
the exact same bag as Aramez burking from China for
fifteen hundred dollars and not the thirty eight thousand dollars
charge in America, the trade war between China and the US.
I'm sorry, but all these expose as have me Like
all the luxury brands you people obsessed over, even Burken
bags are made in China. Capitalism is wild. My question is,
now that you know they're made in China, does it
on luxury them? And the Chinese spilling tea on luxury
brands as wild? Imagine buying an Ermez burkin for thirty
eight thousand dollars when it actually costs fourteen hundred to make.
The Chanel bag that costs five thousand dollars is made
in China for fifty so satisfying to see the Chinese
exposing these luxury brands.
Speaker 3: This is wild.
Speaker 2: But y'all let me know what you think in the comments.
Would you still spend thirty thousand dollars on a burkin?
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