• Skip to main content

Shoeleather Magazine

  • Contributors
  • Shoeleather Archives

Vale Ruiz

To Dupe or Not to Dupe?

June 2, 2023 by Vale Ruiz

This spring I was determined to find a knockoff of the Prada Re-Edition 2005 bag and I knew Canal Street, on the edge of New York’s Chinatown, was just the place to get it. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, some friends and I took the C train downtown. The Canal Street subway station was cramped […]

Copyright © 2025 · Created for the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU.