woman stitching louis vuitton ad  Louis Vuitton's misleading ad.
Louis Vuitton has been ordered to sack two of its latest ads
over claims that they mislead customers into believing that the
hot handbags are hand-stitched.  One offending advertisement
features a Cate Blanchett look-alike sewing the handle of a
handbag, with the text, "The seamstress with linen thread and
beeswax. A needle, linen thread, beeswax, and infinite patience
protect each over-stitch from humidity and the passage of time."
The other ad shows a woman making a wallet, with the questions,
"What secret little gestures do our craftsmen discretely pass
on? How do we blend innate skill and inherent prowess?"  The
answer, apparently, is by machine.  According to the Daily Mail,
the Advertising Standards Agency received complaints that the
ads were misleading, so it challenged the folks at Louis
Vuitton, who confessed that sewing machines were used to make
their pricey purses because they made items "more secure and
[were] necessary for stren