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­　　The secret supplier to the world’s top designers

­　　頂級奢飾品的秘密生產基地

­　　The town of Ubrique in southern Spain is beautiful but remote. It doesn’t have an airport or a train station and even buses are irregular.

­　　西班牙南部的烏布里克鎮美麗而遙遠。它沒有機場或火車站，甚至沒有常規的公共汽車。

­　　Its position, nestled at the bottom of a valley surrounded by big hills, means the easiest way to get there is by car. But even then drivers have to navigate winding and often steep roads.

­　　它的位置位于一個山谷的底部，四周環繞著巨大的小山，這意味著最方便的方法就是開車。但即便如此，司機也只能在蜿蜒曲折的道路上行駛。

­　　The town is around 75 miles south of Seville, nowhere near the world’s fashion capitals of Milan, Paris, New York or London.

­　　小鎮位于塞維利亞以南約75英里處，離世界時尚之都米蘭、巴黎、紐約或倫敦很遠。

­　　Yet this collection of white washed houses, known as a pueblo blanco (white town) in Spanish, is where many of the top fashion brands source their leather goods.

­　　然而，在西班牙，這些被稱為普布蘭科布蘭科(白色小鎮)的白墻房子，是許多頂級時尚品牌的皮革制品來源。

­　　Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Hermes, Chanel, Chloe, Loewe and Carolina Herrera are all reported to use the artisans here to make things such as handbags, wallets and belts.

­　　路易威登、古馳(Gucci)、愛馬仕(Hermes)、香奈兒(Chanel)、克洛伊(Chloe)、洛伊(Loewe)和卡羅萊納(Carolina Herrera)的很多手袋、錢包和皮帶等物品都是這里的工匠制作的。

­　　Yet almost none of these designers are willing to talk about it.

­　　然而，大多數設計師中幾乎沒有人愿意談論這個問題。

­　　Most of the secrecy comes from the fear of someone using the high end designs to produce cheap copycat products, a costly problem for luxury retailers.

­　　保密主要是來自于怕有人仿造高端設計來生產廉價的山寨產品，這對奢侈品零售商來說是是一個巨大的威脅。

­　　Juan Antonio Sanchez, manager at leather goods manufacturer Ranchel, says the big brands often have strict demands.

­　　皮革制品生產商Ranchel的經理胡安.安東尼奧.桑切斯表示，這些大品牌往往有嚴格的要求。

­　　"We have to sign a contract of confidentiality, then the factory, the manager and every worker have to sign it.

­　　“我們必須簽訂保密協議，工廠、經理和每個工人都必須簽署。”