HOW TO CHECK IF MY BAGS ARE REAL OR NOT.

I KNOW SOME BAGS HAVE AUTHENTICITY LABELS BUT HOW TO CHECK GUCCI’S ANYBODY KNOWS?

It obviously escaped your limited attention that my comment wasn’t addressed to you in person; I just threw it in there for fun. And this may come as news to you but not everyone is a “worldly traveler” such as yourself and therefore my including the link was for everyone’s benefit, not just you

Now onto your reply:
Marina Hotel is not ripped off from a franchise. It is its own brand so I don’t see why you offered it as a rebuttal. The forthcoming Four Seasons is a legitimate branch/franchise so whoever owns it is besides the point… oh wait, you never had one

The Plaza Athenee in New York – when it first opened!! – was a branch/outpost of the one in Paris. This is obviously no longer the case, as the brand identity of each hotel is now quite different, as you so diligently googled and showed us .. Nonetheless, both are classic, highly regarded 5-star hotels in the best parts of their respective cities

And now we come to Kuwait.. Plaza Athenee is a tacky as shit, cheap-ass hotel in BNEID EL GAR!!!, next to Salam Hospital and assorted 9a3eedi residences. Drive down Istiqlal Expressway and you can’t miss its garish pink neon signage.. And I know for a fact that its owner is a sheikh and that he was indeed confronted with the trademark infringement issues, to which he replied “I don’t care.. sue me!”

Back to the issue at hand and your incredibly weak argument.. Let me first make clear that I don’t buy any of this “fake goods” conspiracy bullshit simply because the first rule of selling fake goods is to do it on the “down low” and not maintain a high profile. Villa Moda advertises heavily and Sheikh Majed is all over the international press.. hardly a scenario for selling fake goods!

But my beef with you, naive Dana, is simply your assertion that being a member of the ruling family automatically confers “good citizen” status, and means that they would never EVER steal or cheat. Newsflash: they are human just like the rest of us, some good and some bad… and the courts are full of cases for and against members of the ruling family on assorted charges

just sayin’

Marina Hotel is also owned by a Sheikh, so will the new Four Seasons that will open in the city by next year.

Oh, and thank you. I know what the Plaza Athenee is. It’s on one of my favorite shopping streets, Avenue Montaigne. I stay a few minutes away at the Georges V though. ;)

P.S. There’s also a Plaza Athenee in the Upper East Side in New York, yet it doesn’t belong to the Dorchester Group either, which is owned by the Sultan of Brunei. (Not the hotel in New York, but he owns the Dorchester Group which owns The Dorchester in London, obviously, the New York Palace in New York (where they film GG), Hotel Bel-Air, Beverly Hills Hotel, and a few others.

just sayin’

http://www.plaza-athenee-paris.com/

just sayin’

Are you even Kuwaiti? How can you say something like that? If they are not taj rasik, then who is? Bas gool il 7amdillah ina 7ikamna 3adleen oo ma yamshoon foog il ‘ganoon. If you said something like this in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Syria or other countries, they’ll literally hang you! I’m just saying. :)