Like many of my fellow millennials, Samantha Jones and her infamous Fendi Baguette knockoff on "Sex & The City" was my first encounter with bootleg fashion. I was only 13 when the episode aired and at that time in my life the concept of owning a designer handbag, let alone a counterfeit version, was all foreign territory. But around a decade later, when I spotted my first IRL fake as a twenty-something, the counterfeit market was cast in a harsher light. There, strewn across a bedsheet on a s...
