- Can I see the bottom?
Can you spin it around?
Is this leather?
Oh my gosh!
(upbeat music)
- [Narrator] Some of these bags are designer.
Some of them are not.
Without the aid of logos or brand names
our stylist has to identify the fakes in the bunch
with one caveat.
She's not allowed to touch the bags.
- So this is my bag and it's Alexander Wang.
I've had it for a few years.
It's basically my go-to black leather bag.
- So was the leather distressed
when you initially bought it?
- Yes, so it came with this whole
pebbled leather look. - Uh huh.
- Which I actually really love - Yeah.
'cause it gives more texture to it.
- Super cute.
Can I see the bottom?
- Sure!
So the bottom is covered in these studs.
Which makes it actually kind of easy, like,
whenever I need to plop it down
or throw it down somewhere, I don't have to worry about it.
I'm just like, (grunts)
- Number one, super cute bag,
the studs are what lead me to believe
that it could be a real one?
So I feel like the studs make me believe
that it's a real one because the studs are placed
parallel to each other on the bottom,
and then, just the work of them on the top too,
so it looks like really good craftsmanship.
The two straps are stitched really well.
I feel like this is a real bag,
and if not, then this is a really good knockoff.
How long have you had the bag again?
- I think I've had this bag for
between four to five years?
I got it a few years back.
- Do you notice a lot of peeling
and stuff around the bottom?
- (chuckles) Yes.
As you can tell,
I don't take very good care of this bag,
so it's definitely got its little scuffs.
- I believe this bag is real.
And if not, it is a really good knockoff.
(slapping)
- Hi, I'm Caryn, and this is my Gucci bag.
- [Ngozika] Okay, how long have you had this bag?
- I've had it a very short time.
Actually, my friend got this for me,
shout out to Connie, thank you very much.
(Ngozika laughs)
She's one of those like,
cray, not crazy,
I'm not gonna say you're crazy, babe.
- One of those really good vintage shoppers.
She goes to all those stores and found this the other day,
and I love backpacks, and so she thought of me,
and got this for me, and yeah.
So, not too long, but I'm sure it's been
in someone else's life longer before that.
- Yeah, well, first off you have really good friends
if they're buying you Gucci anything.
- [Caryn] Thank you.
- Let's just start off with that.
So, Connie, yes girl.
- She got a good deal, apparently.
- For sure, okay, even better, 'cause we love a deal.
Can you spin it around, please?
- [Caryn] Yes!
- Let me take a look.
- Give you the Vanna White.
♪ Ahhhh! ♪
(Caryn chuckles)
- So I'm just looking at the stitching
and looking at the
little spikes there on the side, the gold.
See I feel like with gold, it could go either way,
because gold can sometimes make things look tacky,
and then sometimes it could actually class up a piece.
I think the gold is kind of throwing me off a little bit.
I don't know, or maybe it's just my personal tastes,
we don't, I don't, but.
- [Caryn] I'm a gold fan.
- Really? - So yeah.
- So you like a lot of gold stuff.
- I really do.
My house is like that metallic too.
- Gotcha.
I mean, I know I probably don't seem
like I don't care for a lot of gold today, but!
(Caryn laughs)
I don't know!
I think it's a lot of,
it's really bright, and is this leather?
- Yeah, well, I mean, as far as I know.
I've got it on good authority.
- Gotcha, I feel like it's more of a vinyl,
and then, I'm looking at the zipper, it isn't inset,
but they do have a back pocket, and the straps.
- Yeah, it's got a lot of pockets.
- And then the straps too,
I feel like they're maybe the same material.
Since I can't touch it, just from looking at it,
it looks really, either it's really just cured
and glossed over.
You know what?
I think I'm stumped on this one.
So for that, I think I'm leaning more towards
this is a knockoff,
because to me this just doesn't seem like the quality
that I would expect from Gucci,
and if this is in fact a real Gucci bag
then I am really surprised.
Final verdict, I do think that this may be a knockoff.
(slapping)
- So this is my Chloe bag.
- Okay.
- Just super cute, very simple.
I don't like super big big bags, because back problems.
So, you know, I can just fit mascara, lip gloss,
- Yes.
- Phone, cards, ID.
- The essentials.
- The essentials, right.
I'm not a big label person,
so I like designer but I don't want it to say it's designer.
- Yeah. - I just want it look good.
- Which I am so glad the whole logo craze is over,
but now I think it's kind of resurfacing though,
which is interesting. - [Essence] It's kind of
coming back, - [Ngozika] Yeah.
- and I'm not a fan.
- How long have you had this bag?
- About a year.
- And then this emblem on the front, does that do anything?
- Yeah, it moves,
so, it's kind of like a horseshoe situation.
- And see, that's one thing,
I think on some bags that are luxury,
they could have a really big statement
emblem on the front, but then, on the other hand,
you know, you have some knockoff things,
that have the big emblem on the front
and that makes it look cheap.
- Right.
- So with this one, I feel like it's kind of in the middle.
It's a useful emblem, because you can carry it
as a handbag rather than a shoulder bag.
- Right, exactly.
It's like, for functional,
- [Ngozika] Yeah.
- Functionality. - [Ngozika] Right.
- Is that a word?
- [Ngozika] Yeah! - Okay.
Practicality.
- So it's not just for aesthetics.
- Right.
- Can I see the sides?
- [Essence] Sure.
- Is this leather on the side or suede?
- I'm thinking leather, I also don't really know.
'Cause I just buy things.
- Yeah. (chuckles)
It's really good stitching.
They have a really good overlay.
That's one thing that's indicative
of luxury bags as well,
or handmade bags,
but, I mean, I've seen some knockoffs
as well that also had that.
As we know now, a lot of luxury items
are made overseas in the same places
that the knockoffs are made,
and they just ship them to their countries of origin
to actually have things like the straps attached,
or the spikes added,
or the label put in,
and then they pass it off as,
"Oh, it's been made in Italy,"
when it was really made in China.
But, I don't know, I'm stumped on all of this stuff, man.
This looks really good, though.
So right now I'm thinking
it could very well be a luxury bag,
but I'm just stumped on the emblem thing on the front.
I don't know if that's an emblem for practical use,
for a luxury bag, or if that's an emblem
that was put on there to try to convince people
to make it look more expensive, because it's a knockoff.
So it looks like it could be,
Oh my gosh.
So far I feel like I've gotten
a real, a fake, and this one I think is in the middle.
- [Producer] Did you want a hint?
- (chuckles) Yes!
- [Producer] You can- I'm going to allow you to touch it.
♪ Ahh! ♪
- It's a little lighter
than I would have expected, just from looking at it.
It looks like it's kind of heavy, even for its size.
My final verdict.
I'm going to go, a knockoff?
Which I'm not sure at all, let's just be clear on that.
(slapping)
- Okay, hi, I'm Cheska, and this is a Kate Spade bag.
So my mom is a bit of a shopaholic,
and it's fine, her kids are grown,
she has the money to do whatever she wants.
- Let Mom live.
- That's her reward for raising us,
but sometimes, she often buys certain things,
she buys certain things twice,
- [Ngozika] Oh.
- Because she forgets that she already bought one.
- Oh wow, okay.
- So sometimes she'll have a bag of two different colors,
but she has five sisters,
and she has a daughter,
so she can just, and a mom!
So she'll often, just,
- Gift it!
- Gift it.
So this is one of her gifts.
- Oh, okay.
- Yup. - How long have you had it?
- I think a few months, but she got it last year,
and she was like, "Oh, oh, hold on, I got a bag,
an extra bag, here.
Do you want it?" - Gotcha.
First impressions,
it looks thin?
And I don't see a lot of the hardware,
like, no buttons on the front,
the way the handles, the straps are connected,
I would expect the handles to be
like the ones on the side on the front,
even if there weren't any colored hardware.
So that's the first thing I noticed.
I feel like it's like an envelope in the front,
which is super cute.
How many years, did you say?
- I think my mom got it a year and a half ago,
maybe two years ago.
- Yeah, I feel like now that I've seen the entire bag,
I definitely feel like it may be a knockoff,
I don't see that there's any weightiness to it,
and then, the straps I can see in the middle
for the shoulder strap was cut on a bias, seems like,
and it was attached like two pieces together,
because I noticed that it was a diagonal seam,
and then on the front I'm just really surprised
that there's no hardware at all.
Even if it's just a little piece, or on the sides.
So I think for this one,
I'm for sure gonna say it's a knockoff.
Final verdict, I think this one is a knockoff.
(slapping)
(tense music)
- Oh my gosh, I'm nervous.
I'm gonna do a dishonor to my industry.
- My bag is real,
(Ngozika squeals)
you got it right.
- Okay! (sighing)
Alright, one down.
- Okay, this bag is fake.
(laughs) You called it!
- Two out of four let's go!
- Yeah, genuinely, I think that you
sussed it pretty quick.
- So this, is not a Chloe, it's a No-ey, it's from Amazon,
we just got it for this video so great job!
- (cheering) Three for three so far.
Let's do it, let's bring it home.
- This bag is real.
(record scratching) - Is it?
(buzzer blares)
- Yeah. It's like-
- It's really a Kate Spade?
- Yeah.
- I am so surprised!
- [Cheska] It's pretty weighty when you carry it.
- Oh, well, see it does feel, okay.
- It's pretty weighty.
- Okay.
- Because when you said that it looks light,
I was like, no, there's nothing in there,
it was pretty weighty when I was like,
- Gotcha. - Putting on the bag.
- I did pretty good.
- [Caryn] Honestly, yeah, come on!
- [Essence] Yeah, you aced it!
- I was gonna be so embarrassed.
I mean, three out of four, it's like a 75,
I mean, so I'm like average at this point.
I'm okay with that. (laughs)
(chill music)