Sneaker Resale Isn’t the Business It Used To Be
Like so many others, Daniel Arango saw opportunity in the early 2020s sneaker boom. Arango and his partner, Simon Lum, opened the New York-based resale shop District One in 2021,…
Luxury Counterfeiters Are Outsmarting the Industry
Dressed in a white lab coat, Mélissa B. slips on thin cotton gloves and gently places a Zanzibar blue Hermès Birkin bag, its iconic orange box, a cloth dust cover,…
It’s Not Just Secondhand Retailers That Have a Counterfeit Problem
Online luxury’s counterfeit problem is spreading. Since the dawn of e-commerce, shoppers ordering designer bags on a digital resale site like eBay have done so knowing they risked buying a…