Armani and Kate Spade products fail industrial tests in Zhejiang province, Chinese media reports
Malls in numerous cities found to carry luxury brand clothes with misleading labels, shoe soles that lacked durability and bags that fell apart
Nearly 30 per cent of the products carrying brand name labels including Emporio Armani, Hugo Boss, Sacchi, Kate Spade and Ecco recently tested by Zhejiang authorities were found to be substandard, a regional news portal reported.
According to Thepaper.cn, the Zhejiang Administration Bureau for Industry and Commerce recently tested 100 batches of brand name clothing, shoes and handbags. Only 74 samples passed standards tests.
The products were purchased from a number of shopping malls and outlets in Hangzhou, as well as outlets in the cities of Ningbo, Jiaxing and Taizhou, which offered off-season products, the report quoted the administration spokesman as saying.
An outlet in Haining city was found to be selling denim wear from Hugo Boss with a tag that reads 70 per cent cotton and 30 per cent linen, but tests found the garment contained only 55.8 per cent cotton, with the rest made up by linen, according to the report.
Knitwear from Emporio Armani reportedly failed a colour endurance test.