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Giles Miller's Brown Paper Bag is made out of cardboard, cut on the bias to reveal the accidentally interesting pattern created by, well, cutting cardboard on the bias. It's been treated for water-resistance and is priced at about US $358.
We can't help but wonder--isn't making a pricey purse out of such readily available materials simply begging for it to be knocked off? Last week saw another huge "counterfeit purse ring" bust in New York's Chinatown, mere blocks from Core77's offices. We maintain that the reason these fake bag rings will keep proliferating is because a) people want to buy them and b) the means of manufacturing knock-offs is relatively easy to reproduce on an industrial scale. You'll never get rid of a), but maybe you can do something about b).
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I hope not.
Chrome is hardly sustainable.
I'm sure the leather is from a Chinese tannery, not sustainable.
Just guessing the 'water resistant coating' is probably not too sustainable either, surely something uber toxic.
$358 for a cardboard pocketbook isn't sustainable either
Of course it is easy to design products that are difficult to knock off! Just make the product out of materials and use pattern making techniques that are not cheap to produce. See Shelley Fox (http://www.shelleyfox.com/) who has often discussed how she uses complex patternmaking in an effort to discourage knock offs.
Talk to the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They've been working on this problem for a few years.
http://www.moneyfactory.gov/