What dos this say about the "real" marketers, and the fashion consumer in general?

holes at the knees and frayed cuffs; perfect!

Long Island shop owner busted for selling bogus designer goods

A Long Island “boutique” owner was nabbed with more than $40 million in fake designer goods — part of an illicit cache she peddled around the country, authorities said Tuesday.

Lindsay Castelli, 31, of Smithtown sold faux Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Dior, Ugg, and Louis Vuitton knock-offs to scores of unsuspecting customers through Web sites and her store, officials said.

Nassau County detectives recovered 22 printing presses at the store that were used to create “thousands of synthetic heat-sealed counterfeit labels,” which Castelli would then attach to the cheap clothing items before jacking their price way up, police said.

“A simple $10 sweatshirt, you put the Chanel brand on it, it sells for $5,300,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said at a press conference.

The idiots paying $5,300 for a sweatshirt are buying it solely for the label, so as long as the label is there, what’s all the fuss about?