and if you don't think Thomas' piece is enough,
http://www.myauthentics.com/Home.html
should clear it up.

Please, knockoffs are both passe and incalculably dodgy.
You won't feel so proud of yourselves after you read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/opinion/30thomas.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Newsweek and NY Times journalist Dana Thomas just visited the sweatshops they make this junk at for her book Deluxe:
"Most fakes today are produced in China, a good many of them by children. Children are sometimes sold or sent off by their families to work in clandestine factories that produce counterfeit luxury goods. Many in the West consider this an urban myth. But I have seen it myself."