for the future me

(left: original, right: mine)

it all began on chu xi, when i was shopping aimlessly in raffles city. this bag from a push cart outside river island caught my eye and after haggling with the kind owner three times, i finally got it. i didn't think much of it, just that i liked its design.....until i went into charles & keith and saw its shiny-skinned twin hanging there. it then dawned on me that i'd bought an inspired designer bag! after some searching, i finally found it on the Francesco Biasia website.

i didn't have much thought abt designer-inspired/knockoff handbags..in fact i didn't mind them as long as they're not blatant ripoffs or replicas. this discussion is all so timely since my colleagues and i have been talking abt the Miu Miu Vitello Lux-inspired satchel bag (i LOVE this pink one!)

that everyone is carrying from Charles & Keith..and the different versions of the real ones with the Miu Miu brand that we keep seeing only recently..until i's hard to tell which is the real and not.

but anyway, i'm glad it's not as rampant. but i'd be smirking if i see anyone carrying the C&K version, since mine's prettier. and cheaper. and from korea! haha. and it's synthetic leather..no issues of animal cruelty here (:

ラベル: groundshaking discovery, traffic-stopping event