What we publish,
and why you can trust it.

1. Independence from the maisons

1828 Couture is a buyer-side, independent operation. It is not owned by, sponsored by, or affiliated with any of the houses whose bags it tracks, and no brand pays for coverage, placement, or a more favourable read. When we name a house, we do it as an outside observer of the second-hand market — not as a partner.

2. The no-fabricated-data rule

This is the rule the whole site is built on: we never invent a number. Every price, range, median, and trend is derived from real, dated observations of the live market. If a bag's market is too thin to say something honestly, we say the confidence is low and show less — we would rather show you an incomplete picture than a confident fiction. A chart is never drawn from data we don't have.

3. Evidence before conclusions

A claim earns its place only if we can point to the evidence behind it — a real listing, a documented method, or an established, verifiable fact about a bag. We don't publish invented measurements, made-up dates, or prices pulled from memory. Where a figure comes from our own index, we tell you how the index is built.

4. How money is kept separate from judgement

We earn referral fees, and we're open about it — see the affiliate disclosure. That commission never decides which listing we surface or what we write. The genuine, well-fitting listing wins regardless of who pays us, and no editorial verdict is for sale.

5. Sources we cite — and won't

For facts about bags and the market, we go to primary sources: the listings themselves, marketplace data we're authorised to use, and established reference material. We don't launder claims through other affiliate blogs or repeat unverifiable "resale value" figures floating around the web.

6. Freshness & dating

Live figures are pulled at page load; our index carries the date of the observation behind it. Editorial pages show when they were last updated. If something is stamped with a date, that date is real.

7. Corrections & accountability

We will be wrong sometimes, and when we are, we fix it in the open. If you spot an error — wrong metadata, a stale signal, a broken link, a misread — tell us and we'll correct it, usually within a few business days. Every page is the responsibility of a named person: Monica Ho, founder and editor. Reach the desk at [email protected].

8. Not advice

Nothing here is investment, financial, or purchasing advice. We show you what the market is doing; the decision to buy, sell, list, or walk away is always yours.