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How A $3,000 Sharpie-Stained Chanel GST Is Professionally Restored | Refurbished - YouTube
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[cloth rustling]
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[brush scratching]
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I am Charlotte Staerck,
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and I'm cofounder and
CEO of Handbag Clinic.
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Today, I'm going to walk you through
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how our artisan Chloe
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will restore this Grand Shopper Tote
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that has pen ink all over it.
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The Chanel Grand Shopper Tote
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reached around 2,000 pounds
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when it was able to be
bought direct from Chanel.
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When this restoration's complete,
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we would sell a Grand Shopper Tote
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for anywhere between 1,700 pounds
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and 1,950 pounds.
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The first thing that Chloe
will do with this item
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is remove all of the ink.
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The most important part
of restoring this bag
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will actually be the initial cleaning,
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because ink can spread and
can create more staining.
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We use a special ink remover.
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So, you can see Chloe
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taking the ink remover
with a small cotton bud
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and gently rolling this
over the initial ink.
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This is so that we don't
have any spreading,
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any further contamination
of that ink to the bag.
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One of the main reasons for this
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is because ink is actually very oily,
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and oil and leather really don't mix.
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[cotton bud scratching]
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We then also use a range of products.
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Some are solvent-based,
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which will help to dry out any areas
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which have absorbed additional oils.
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And then we also use products
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which have natural oils
embedded into them,
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which will then nourish
areas that have dried,
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such as the corners or any areas
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where the ink has been drawn out of.
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[brush rasping]
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We then use our specialist
cleaning solution
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with the brush and a foam,
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which then will remove any excess product.
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Caviar skin leather is grained,
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so you need the brush to get
into all of those grooves
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to be able to really make sure it's clean
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and make sure it's ready for
the next stage of the process.
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Caviar leather, it gets its name
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from being a pebbled-texture leather,
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which means that it has printed into it
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this almost bubbled effect.
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If anything is trapped
there or left in there,
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you would run the risk of that
later peeling or coming away.
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[airbrush hissing]
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Because it is ink that
has contaminated this,
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the cleaning process alone
will not remove this stain,
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and we must apply other methods.
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[airbrush hissing]
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In our research and development team,
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we realized that ink
stains, in particular,
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were very stubborn,
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so we created a metallic solution
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which actually blocks that coming through
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to make sure in a year's time
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you're not going to start seeing
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that ink stain come through.
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Chloe takes the specialist solution
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and she applies it
lightly with an airbrush
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throughout every area
where you can see the ink.
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[airbrush hissing]
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Chloe will then create the color match,
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which we have discussed
with the client in advance.
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[palette knife scraping]
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This colorant, once created,
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will then be airbrushed on this bag.
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We always want to be
as sparing as possible
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to ensure the texture of
the leather is maintained.
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Because of the iconic CC quilting
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and the CC on the front of the item,
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which makes this item
the iconic Chanel look,
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we want to make sure
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as little pigment gets onto
those stitches as possible.
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[airbrush hissing]
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And the bag is ready to go.
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