THE FAKES TRADE

Two-part series examining the global industry of fake goods and how luxury brands are struggling to fight back, taking a journey from the sweatshops of China to Bond Street boutiques. The brands helped turned counterfeiting into the world’s biggest and fastest-rising criminal industry by outsourcing production to China, a country with a centuries-old tradition of copying. Chinese counterfeit syndicates now make and distribute fakes throughout Britain, but only the foot soldiers ever get caught.
DIRECTED BY NICK HORNBY
EXEC PRODUCED @ BLAST FILMS ED COULTHARD/GRANT McKEE