I became aware of this issue the other day when I had a question asking if my bags have a label inside saying 'handcrafted in china'.
To be honest I am not exactly sure whether some of the authentic bags possibly have this label but certainly not all do. All I can say for definite is that I have
two bags directly from 'we are what we do', one directly from Anya Hindmarch and one directly from Sainsburys (which were the only three places that the
bag could be purchased from in the UK) and none of them have this label on them. From this, and as the bags were all originally produced in the same place,
all I can presume is that bags that have this label are not genuine.
As far as I was aware, you can only put a label saying 'handcrafted' on an item that has been completely made by hand and have had no interference by
machine for printing or cutting. Although the genuine bags were handmade (stitched by hand), the lettering across the front was dye-cut (cut by a machine)
and the inner lining slogans were machine printed so, although they have been advertised as 'handmade' (which they were), I don't think Anya would be
allowed to actually put 'handcrafted' on the label.
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