Foreign luxury retail brands fail quality control test: study

SHANGHAI - Clothes imported from some of the world top luxury brands, such as Hermes and Versace, have proven to be substandard in a routine quality control test, the Zhejiang administration for industry and commerce reported on Monday

The administration has ordered the clothes to be withdrawn from sale and for the retailers to be fined.

The test found that 48 of the 85 batches of products examined were substandard, accounting for 60 percent of of the overall sample, according to the administration.