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Gucci's new 'Made in China' sneaker models break with Italian tradition
(www.reuters.com)
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Italian fashion brands have been becoming under heavy pressure over probes by Italian authorities because of labour abuse and exploitation of Chinese migrant workers at subcontractors’ workshops on Italian soil, where the brands produced some of their products. It's supposedly easier to produce in China, where labour laws are much weaker and workers' rights are de-facto non-existent.
This effects not only Gucci but more or less all Italian brands.
[Edit typo.]
It is insane to me that someone can buy a $2000 purse made from $50 of raw materials with AT MOST 16h of labour and instead of paying an Italian $350 and make $1500 from ONE PURSE they instead want to pay a Chinese worker $100 and make $1850 from the purse.
Like it's such a small increase in the actual profit margin it's insane to me that they wouldn't want real artisans making legitimate works of art "worth" $2000 instead of just paying the cheapest labour possible and making what amounts to knockoff quality "brand name" purses.