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Gucci warns Hong Kong stores over replicas

29/04/2016

Luxury goods maker Gucci has warned stores in Hong Kong not to sell paper replicas of its products as offerings to the dead. Paper items such as money, houses, handbags and shoes are often burnt next to the tombs of ancestors in the belief that they can be enjoyed in the afterlife. "We fully respect the funeral context and we trust that the...

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