The Tunisian factories that make clothes and accessories for Celine, Max Mara, Longchamp and others sell a percentage of their wares locally at rock-bottom prices. But some unscrupulous retailers are smuggling the goods into Europe and selling them second-hand with a high markup.
To set foot in one of the apartments in Tunis's chic La Marsa suburb requires an appointment and is strictly invitation-only. At high-society dinners, those in the know exchange the numbers of the women who host the exclusive private sales there. The hostesses are invariably the wives of managers of textile factories that operate as subcontractors to several major European and American luxury brands a few dozen kilometres from the
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