This, and also the best way to look expensive on a budget (other than buying vintage designer labels) is to buy from small, sustainable European brands that often source their fabrics from the same factories as Chanel and the likes, have highly skilled artisans on the team and may even offer custom sizing.
You can get discreet (a.k.a. logo-free) cashmere, wool, linen, silk and leather pieces, made in Europe, many of them tailored just for you, of the same quality but with none of the overhead of big fashion houses.
Many high-quality yet fairy affordable brands have been springing up all over Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in particular. Most use sustainable fabrics and have limited collections.
You just need to be willing to do a little digging around.
And the best part is that because these brands are so obscure, you can get truly unique pieces that won’t be instantly recognisable like those trite Hermes and Chanel bags.
What neither she, nor her inexperienced audience know, since both don’t have a clue about what wealthy people do and wear: Prêt-á-porter/ ready to wear = labels everywhere is for poor (or poorer) people wanting to look wealthy. Haute Couture/ Alta Moda or tailored which all big fashion houses still do if you have the connections and money, don’t show labels. That’s wealth, class, and in my opinion: taste. Not a Chanel label on ones forehead.