A Chinese brand steals a cartoon of an artist from Porto and sells a T-shirt for 6 euros

A Chinese brand steals a cartoon of an artist from Porto and sells a T-shirt for 6 euros

A work by Porto artist Lara Luis is being copied and inappropriately sold on various sites. Shein, a Chinese fast fashion brand, was selling it for almost half the price.

One of her misused works was seen by 34-year-old Portuguese illustrator Lara Luis, China’s Shein Company. The e-commerce giant has been selling, at least since April, an illustration of the artist stamped on a T-shirt, at a cost of six euros.

After the case was condemned on Instagram Porto (where it is followed by a crowd of more than 22,000 followers), the massive engagement of the post and even the intervention of some young women with advertising links to the platform, the product was withdrawn in the meantime, but SHEIN has not provided any justification yet. “They haven’t answered me yet. Neither me nor the ‘influencers’ who tried to talk to them. But they’ve already deleted the product from the store. They’re taking over something that isn’t theirs and not even a mention of the artist, who graduated in graphic design and advertising, and has a master’s degree in Illustrations and comics.

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