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BBC News - His Church: Charity re-uses donated counterfeit clothes

Instead of handing counterfeit designer clothes to customs or trading standards to be destroyed, they are being donated to a charity for redistribution to the homeless and vulnerable.

In just six years, His Church has managed to convince 90% of British Trading Standards authorities to hand over all the fake designer clothes they seize to them.

In fact, the industrial sewing machines they now use to patch over pirated labels were recently given to them by UK customs officials, who had seized the machines from criminal gangs who were using them to create counterfeit clothing.

(I can’t establish provenance of the above image, which comes via Dis Magazine / Oliver Laric, but overlabelling, rebranding and redistributing counterfeit goods can’t just be limited to clothing, can it?)