Officials have seized more than £300k of fake designer clothes from West End stores in the last year.

Among household brands pirated by unscrupulous traders included Louis Vuitton and Chanel.

Other counterfeit goods shown to have been removed from shelves appeared to mimic clothes from Canada Goose, North Face and Stone Island.

Westminster counterfeit goods including fake fashion items
Fake Canada Goose and Stone Island products were among items seized in the last raid on West End stores by Westminster trading standards officers (Picture: Westminster City Council)

Th latest haul included knock-off hats and scarves as well as several hundred dangerous travel adapters, charging cables and other mobile accessories.

Altogether trading standards officers have seized £337,000 of items from West End shops in the last year.

Illicit vapes and cigarettes have also been confiscated following raids at nearly 30 shops in central London, the Standard reported.

It comes as the local authority has long battled with a rise in souvenir, candy and vape stores, including on Oxford Street.

Many of the businesses are hidden beneath layers of shell companies and are typically dissolved and renamed each year, costing the council millions in unpaid business rates.

Council cabinet member for enforcement Caroline Sargent said she hoped to ‘go up through the gears on both the scale and rate’ of raids.

‘Like many, I am tired of our streets being used by these emporiums of tat to sell knock-off goods and fakes’, she said.

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