The Chinese-owned, Singapore-based company said it hadn’t authorized a pop-up sale of its wares at the Titi vente entrepôt in the Montreal suburb of Laval. “We cannot guarantee the authenticity or the quality of the products being sold,” the company said in a statement to Le Journal de Montréal. (Le Journal de Montréal, The Logic)

Talking point: LJJ Essentials, the company behind the pop up, is registered to Michael Frenkel, according to Quebec business records. “The goods are all real, everything is legit,” Frenkel said in a brief conversation with The Logic. In a class action filed in a U.S. court against Shein earlier this month, plaintiffs alleged that Shein, which was founded in 2008, had “widespread copyright infringement … baked into the business.” The retailer has also faced allegations that it uses forced labour in the production of its goods.