>> louis vuitton. >> reporter: on my phone she showed my producer supposed $1,000 louis vuitton bag.e said she would sell for $200. >> how do i pay? >> cash. >> reporter: and 15 minutes later, back on the street, the bag appeared. >> thank you. john: and that's how i got this. the counterfeit fashion industry is big business. chris sprigman knows about that. he wrote the knockoff economy, how imitation sparks innovation. that makes it sound like this illegal activity is a good thing. >> well, there's some good that comes out of it. the presence of knockoffs democratizes fashion, it allows people in the u.s. to look good, to look stylish. people who can't afford to pay a thousand dollars for the real louis vuitton bag. that's a thousand dollars, so knockoffs do democratize the availability of the items. now it would be bad if it hurt the brand of companies, if it deprived them of customers they otherwise have. i can tell you that virtually nobody who buys a fake bag on canal street. that's a pretty well-done fake. nobody is going buy the $25,000 fake louis vuitton bag. john: they know

you know, dapper dan would use that where louis vuitton wouldn't. nstead of louis, you mow what i'm say something you may walk into louis vuitton and he looked down at you. especially in 1980. you went to dap, you feel at home. he's going to cater to your needs and take care of you. >> i believe urban luxury fashion started with dapper dan, and people wanting to aspire to wear these luxury brands, they were unattainable at the time. he figured out a way to make it attainable. what dan did is basically do what we did with music, you know. we sampled songs, looped them, and made it our own. he figured out a way to do it in clothing. >> let me tell you a story. 30 years ago this whole block was full of bentleys, rolls-royces, cars you never even heard of. to come see this man because he was the first one taking to sign up clothes, gucci, louis vuitton and making suits and stuff out of it. took the leather and did it, made pants. i never bought a pair. i couldn't afford no pants. this was the first man that did this. >> the only way for us to make it in

dapper dan would use that where louis vuitton wouldn't.that instead of lewis you may walk in to louis vuitton and look down. you feel at home and he's going to cater to your needs and take care of you. >> i believe urban luxury fashion started with people starting to want to apyre to wear luxury brands. they were unobtainable at the time. and he figured out a way to make it attainable. he did what we did with music. we sampled songs, looped them and made it our own. he found a way to do it in clothing. >> let me tell the story. 30 years ago, this whole block was filled with bentleys, rolls royces, cars you have never heard of to see this man. he was the first to take designer clothes, gucci, louis vuitton and made suits and pants. $1,000 pants. i never bought a pair pa. i couldn't afford no $1,000 pants but this is the first guy who did this. the only way to make it in the business, which i realized early on is when you got raw goods -- if i have a roll of fabric, that roll of fabric is anything i want it to be. anything that the designer

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laurie locks come away in, is this a problem specific to prada because other companies like gucci, louis vuittonrmes are doing a little bit better in terms of managing inventory. it is company specific because some of them like gucci have overbooked a network like product did whereas hermes had a slower approach. the pricing of french up before the currency swings let's pretty good. up to two times as much as what you could buy outside of china. there was a time when the chinese could not travel as much. as restrictions have budget, they are traveling in terms, especially given the currency swings. you are seeing big decreases in china and europe purchases by chinese consumers up somewhere around 80%. it is a very dodgy and dynamic situation and i understand why they thought he wanted to build therefore the long term because they had strong brand equity but it looks like a bit too far. a little bit too much. brian, was it not the case that a lot of these luxury brands were starting to charge higher prices in their home countries across in europe to sell to these chinese consumers and make up for

the dance is now in paris in a museum of louis vuitton. this is fantastic matisse.e it's the best one. the best? but you have something on loan to the new museum in paris. mikhail: yes, the dance of matisse. we have music and dance, this is very fragile. we have agleements with the them for certain exchanges and cooperation. charlie: i love the color. mikhail: the color is fantastic. this is one of the -- charlie: you must be very proud of this? mikhail: yes. charlie: a significant addition to the hermitage. mikhail: now they have proper space and we can experiment with it. this is a fantastic portrait, now it looks very well. also, there's some discussions now and i decided to make a kind of, because it's so new, a kind of referendum of the visitors how do you like the new display? , because there is a fight inside the museum, this is right, this is wrong. so i decided to ask the people. charlie: people who come to see the museum. mikhail: what do you think about having matisse on white walls or red walls. this and that. charlie: what's the response, do you know? m

is this louis vuitton? or is it just a plain black bag? >> this is an excellent, probably dell.. >> this is dell. okay. and what about the shoes? i see you got the black socks going. why black instead of white? >> because they were on sale at costco. [ laughter ] >> when you're walking down the street looking like this, how sexual do you feel? >> oh, i don't feel sexual at all. [ laughter ] i've been married for 30 years. so, it's -- the thrill is gone. >> can i get you to do a little turn around? a little turn? yeah. you're looking good, my friend. dad ass, though. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: the thrill is gone. we have a great show. give it up for the roots, everybody. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i've been married for 35 years. >> steve: there's nothing left inside. >> jimmy: the thrill is gone is what he said. yeah. [ laughter ] guys, i want you to come back next week, because benicio del toro will be here on monday. [ applause ] we're gonna play a new game with him. then also on, we got robert de niro. hillary clinton will be here. [ cheers and applause ] kal

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person, and people are talking about him everywhere you go all of the way from walmart to costco to louis vuittonand people are interested in that there is an array of candidates, and it is true on both sides of the aisle. and look at bernie sanders and he is another one that has been talked about and shot to the top. so it is very, very fascinating. >> all right. let's talk about immigration relative to donald trump's plan that calls for the building of the full border wall paid for by mexico, and calls for ending of the birthright citizenship which calls for the changing of the 14th amendment, and is this realistic? >> well, it is a very very difficult situation that we in the united states have face and of course, i am very familiar with the southern border, and i believe that the first and foremost, we have to get the border secure. no doubt about it. it is -- arizona has become the drug gateway with the drug cartels, and the crime that came with it, and the drophouse, and the extortion and the kidnappings, a nd if we don't gt the border secured and then if we could do it, we can then deal wi

. >> you can't say a hip hop king will be the big louis vuitton house.s there some 100 odd years ago. >> ralph lauren, polo doesn't disappear when a particular style of clothing is no longer popular. you are talking about the difference between companies that were able to establish themselves in a society when african-americans were discriminated against economically, in business and such. in order to have -- levis has been around for how long in forever. well, it would have been impossible to have had an african-american label making jeans as far back as levis in american society. unfortunately they did not have the staying power. >> thank you to all the supporters out there, too. >> depending on the flavor of the day, the mood of the month, whatever we are in to, we wear it. we're proud to wear with it but put it in a different class of distinction than other designs. i think it has to do with a lot of deeper discussions about self es stream, distinction in class and race. brands are i dent fiers as to who we are from head to toe. it is always like the