Counterfeit Culture Moscow: Inside the Russian Fashion Black Market

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Counterfeit Culture Moscow: Inside the Russian Fashion Black Market

image: Highsnobiety For the second installment of Counterfeit Culture, Highsnobiety’s first-ever documentary series, the menswear site’s editors headed to Moscow to uncover what is “driving Russia’s thriving market for fake streetwear.” The country’s ...

February 25, 2018 - By TFL

Counterfeit Culture Moscow: Inside the Russian Fashion Black Market

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Counterfeit Culture Moscow: Inside the Russian Fashion Black Market

 image: Highsnobiety

image: Highsnobiety

For the second installment of Counterfeit Culture, Highsnobiety’s first-ever documentary series, the menswear site’s editors headed to Moscow to uncover what is “driving Russia’s thriving market for fake streetwear.” The country’s “counterfeit industry stretches back decades, to when Communism isolated the country from Western products,” states Highsnobiety’s Alec Leach. “Now, almost 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia’s borders are open, but a fragile economy, international sanctions and low wages has kept the country’s demand for fakes alive and well.”

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