This $38 Goyard Saint Louis Dupe Is Destined to Sell Out at Walmart
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Dupes are always a big conversation in the fashion world, but perhaps more so now than ever. Earlier this year, the Walmart Birkin made major rounds online, its supporters proclaiming apathy to whether a bag is real, its critics claiming apathy to the knockoff itself. Now, Walmart is back with another dupe. This time its for the Goyard Saint Louis tote, which at Walmart sells for $38, compared to Goyard’s $2,300 price tag.
While we haven’t seen the bag up close ourselves, a layman’s eye might not think twice about its authenticity, and if the success of the Walmart Birkin can predict anything, I’m sure the $38 Walmart Goyard will do the trick for those wanting to get the look.
Like I said, dupes are very much on the mind right now. In the wake of the news that President Donald Trump would be imposing a 145 percent tariff on goods manufactured in China, the Chinese suppliers of luxury goods have taken to posting. They are on TikTok, alleging that most of the luxury bags and beauty products sold in designer retailers and department stores in the United States are actually produced in Chinese manufacturing facilities, then sent back to Europe where the bags are finished with labels and packaging. It’s hard with certainty that this is happening without a proper transparency investigation, but the way information moves on the Internet, proof almost doesn’t even matter.
These manufacturers do bring up an important point, which is that the idea that garments labeled “Made in China” are always worse quality is Sinophobic and untrue. In fact, plenty of small American brands will work with Chinese wholesale manufacturing to produce high quality goods because they are able to pay fair market wages in China, but not in the States. There is manufacturing in China that covers high quality artisanal goods paid at a fair market wage, as well as poor quality goods made by people in unfair conditions. To some degree, this is present everywhere, though the disparity in manufacturing is likely much worse in Asian countries.
If you are a skeptic, I’m sure more information will be released on these claims in the coming years, possibly even months. It has definitely been noted that the quality at major design houses has decreased as the suppliers have gone from slow-paced craftsmanship to higher volume manufacturing. However, when a supplier claims to be the “Louis Vuitton manufacturer,” we don’t know which products in the line they are manufacturing. I suspect the true picture lies somewhere between what European luxury houses claim and what these manufacturers claim.
