Perth business owners have shared what it is like to have larger online retailers duplicate their designs and sell them at a lesser price with no consequences.

Local designers told The West Australian it “feels like a punch in the gut” when their pieces— which they spend anywhere up to a year creating — get “stolen” by online fast fashion retailers.

The local slow fashion labels have had their designs “duped” by well-known websites including Peppermayo, Glassons, Lioness, Ali Express and Shein.

Fremantle seamstress Michelle Teles Vecchio, who is behind the popular Deconduarte dresses, said she didn’t know whether to be flattered or angry when she saw her designs were being copied.

“I had many customers send me images of the dress that had been duped,” Ms Teles Vecchio said.

“I was pre

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