Greetings and welcome back to EthicalStyle.com, your online resource for questions of ethical fashion. This time we explore all things fake — from fake bags to faux fur. And as always, if you get impatient between issues, you can get your eco-fashion fix at the Behind the Seams blog.

Really Fake
How real does fashion need to be?

• Crisis of Authenticity
  Ready-to-wear designers go on offense in Washington
• A Victimless Crime?
  How consumers and manufacturers make the counterfeiting business so lucrative

Fake for the Sake of It
A look at the environmental impact of pleather and faux fur

• Grey Area
  There's a fine line between inspiration and imitation

The Real Deal
Opinion: What is heritage's place in influencing fashion?

• The Art of Lao Weaving
  A bag designer travels to Laos to study artisanal clothmaking

Seam Ripper
A sampling of five stories taken from Behind the Seams