How to Tell if a Louis Vuitton Pallas Is Authentic or Fake

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I have to confess – I LVOE the Pallas Louis Vuitton bag. It’s elegant, beautiful and…newly released. Not also that means that you cannot find it for 200-700$, it also means that the fakes of this bag are also very new and much better than for the previous models. New fakes appear every day and they are getting better and better. You can't just glance at inaccurate sewing and click ХClose on the browser tab. And remember that not everyone takes photos of each and every details of the bag.

So you see some photos of your dream bag and think to yourself: is this actually a luxury LV or a cheap fake?

Now here the comparison of a real LV Pallas and a fake LV Pallas. Check yourself. Which of these two is real and which is fake? Can you tell?

Well, from these photos I could not. Let's dig down deeper.

Heat Stamps

Let's take a look at the first heat stamp on the left. Seems pretty normal, right? The font is very similar to LV font and it seems like there's nothing wrong with it, until you compare it to a REAL Louis Vuitton Pallas.

Note 3 things: 1) Authentic Pallas has thinner font. Fake Pallas doe not has keen edges of V and N (the lower part). Can you see it? 2) There is an extra vachetta stripe on the authentic Pallas right above the sewing.

3) The R sign is larger (almost the size of an O) on the fake model.

Here's next heatstamp and now it's getting pretty obvious that the left bag is fake. Again, the font is thicker than the original and it has an ugly color screaming fake. Although notice that overall the font is copied well and the inclined sewing is also copied here. Beware.

Date Code

According to the date code the left bag was made in France (which by the way coincides with a "made in" heat stamp), on the 18th week of 2016. Everything's right except the font. Look at the right screen. That's why they say that if a date code seems real - week count, year and the country of origin seem real, it does not mean that the bag is authentic.

Hardware Brass

It's getting much simpler to tell a fake if you have a close up pic of every piece of hardware. Fakes usually do poor job in copying the Louis Vuitton brass quality. The pictures are not very large, but you still can see that the authentic one has a thin nice font, and the fake one divides it in two. Note the difference in the zipper slider upper part. It is plain on the authentic bag and humped shaped on the fake one. On the next pics it's quite obvious which bag is real and which is fake, right?