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Some $35 million in counterfeit designer goods – including mounds of knockoff Louis Vuitton and Gucci bags – were seized in a police raid, as cops busted 18 people for allegedly selling the fakes in plain sight on busy Lower Manhattan sidewalks. Video posted by NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell on social media shows dozens of handbags lined up on top of subway grates, and some assorted wallets, sunglasses and caps on display on tables at the corner of Canal Street and Broadway Wednesday evening as officers worked to dismantle the illicit set-up. “We received a tremendous amount of...

So long as crime remained in San Francisco’s low-income, historically black Tenderloin neighborhood, it was acceptable to San Fran’s far-left ruling elites, but when it erupted in the high-end stores the elites frequent, “the reign of criminals” had “to end.” The reaction to the looting of Louis Vuitton on Union Square reveals San Fran’s liberal elites are “Fair Weather Marxists” and hypocrites. As we know from their contributions to liberal candidates’ campaign coffers and support for socialism, San Fran’s elites have an affinity for Marxist revolution, but apparently only for revolutionaries who rob, rape, maim, and kill each other in...

San Francisco’s Union Square, the high-end shopping district at the center of the city, is boarding up for the Christmas shopping season after a string of “mass looting” events that began on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Normally, Union Square is festive and bright in December. Its giant Christmas tree and menorah attract visitors from across the region, as does its outdoor ice skating rink. Situated alongside the city’s famous cable car, it is an oasis of prosperity in a gritty downtown. However, this year is different, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports: As San Francisco approached the critical December shopping...

The Louis Vuitton store and other high-end retailers in San Francisco's Union Square were robbed Friday night and police said multiple suspects were arrested. The San Francisco Police Department said in a statement it responded to reports of possible looting and vandalism at several retail establishments in the Union Square area at 8:10 p.m. Additional officers were called to the scene to address reports of crime. The alleged thieves smashed windows, leaving piles of shattered glass across the sidewalk of the store that's adjacent to the Macy's department store. The incident occurred around 8 p.m. and video footage posted on...

A gang of grab-and-run thieves descended on the Louis Vuitton store at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto this week and stole an estimated $100,000+ in pricey handbags. In the second such incident at the mall in less, than a month, a group of 11 suspects came to the store and stole 36 Louis Vuitton bags, each of which can cost thousands of dollars. The suspects then fled in five waiting vehicles, and while they were seen on camera leaving the scene, they were all wearing facial coverings and hoodies — much like a gaggle of thieves who hit the...

Democrats have fully pivoted on the nightly Portland riots. They’ve gone all-in on blaming the riots on President Trump thus allying themselves with the antifa and Black Lives Matter anarchist and communist mobs. Instead of black bloc balaclavas or masks, the politicians have donned the cloak of civil libertarianism. In doing so, they make a mockery of it. Democrats, so far as I can find, have never denounced the violent mobs, though New York Governor Andrew Cuomo once wagged a finger at George Floyd rioters while simultaneously explaining that it wasn’t really their fault because “income inequality” led to violence....

In a dig that went beyond a fashion statement, the creative director of Louis Vuitton slammed President Trump as “a joke” following the commander in chief’s visit to the French brand’s new workshop in Alvarado, Texas, last week. Designer Nicolas Ghesquière blasted Trump in a recent Instagram post after the president appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the luxury retailer’s new leather workshop in Johnson County on Thursday.

A left-wing group that specializes in launching boycotts of businesses with ties to President Donald Trump is now targeting Louis Vuitton because the fashion company allowed President Donald Trump and others in his administration to visit its new handbag factory in Texas on Thursday. In an alphabetized list of companies it recommends consumers boycott, the Grab Your Wallet website gives the reason for targeting Louis Vuitton as being because “French businessman and chairman of LVMH Bernard Arnault did a photo op with the Trump administration workshop in Texas.”

New Orleans police are searching for a man accused of stealing a Louis Vuitton bag stuffed with $25,000 worth of merchandise, including 2 Rolex watches, from a Central Business District store Friday (April 6), NOPD said. Shortly after 2 p.m., the man went into the store in the 100 block of Roosevelt Way, took a Louis Vuitton tote bag, and left the business, police said

"I was inspired a lot by the movie Dune—remember those big padded collars they wore? Well I did that padded look as a flap at the back." - Kanye The sneakers come in three styles − suede, calfskin and patchwork of leathers, and are named The Dons, The Jaspers, and Mr. Hudson.

An image of Sarah Palin's 7-year-old daughter, Piper, carrying a Louis Vuitton bag popped up on Huffington Post. We noted yesterday that Sarah Palin couldn't afford designer threads of her own, and this only proves our theory since the bag is a fake. (You can tell because the LV logo is hitting the seam on the bottom of the bag instead of being centered on that panel where a symbol is.) Though from a financial standpoint the bag's more Joe Six-Pack than a new Escada blazer, counterfeit rings employ child labor and fund drug trafficking. So that purse could be...

He is the former president of one the largest Communist countries in history. But Mikhail Gorbachev now has an unlikely new job - In an ad that will appear in magazines worldwide later this year, Gorbachev is shown in the backseat of a car riding through Berlin, with one of the luxury brand's bags at his side. The fee he received for the fashion shoot – estimated at several hundred thousand dollars – will go toward supporting programmes at the Gorbachev fund, according to The International Herald Tribune.

Louis Vuitton's links with Vichy regime exposed Kim Willsher in Paris The luxury goods company Louis Vuitton collaborated with the Nazis during the German occupation of France in the second world war, according to a new book. A French author has uncovered previously unpublished details of the firm's support for the Vichy regime which was responsible for the deportation of French Jews to German concentration camps. The book, Louis Vuitton, A French Saga, says members of the Vuitton family actively supported the puppet government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain and made money from their business dealings with the Germans. Its...