All just window dressing to mullify the buyers.
Sitting at the beach front yesterday, well over two dozen 'ambulant sellers' passed within a hour and half of them sold quite convincing fakes of just about all Veblen brands.
Unless the luxury good investors bridge the wealth gap the aspirational fakes will be sold.
Since the gap is their existence it will pertain.
The best way to look at it is that being copied is the ultimate compliment.
What we as a society should NOT accept is that public money is spent on the widening/maintaning of the gap, of the Veblen thing.
When I see uniformed police molesting street sellers I speak up about this to them. I also write to town hall about that.
Imo the police has the priorities WAY wrong when they spend the very limited means on this sort of 'crime'.