I received an email from Le Galeriste in Montreal offering me an opportunity to sell my art as “wearable” art. I don’t plan on signing up, but just curious to know if anyone has done this or what you might know about this site.
Thanks,
Judy
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Good day, Judy! I do not know of such a gallery. Unfortunately, I cannot say anything about this.
Hi Judith, I got the same email. Never heard of them before. Marcia
Thanks for letting me know!
Judy
I have printed several art works on La Galeriste products.
You initially get to use 3 artworks. Their designers will place your art on a group of clothing type of your choosing.
I ordered several pieces to check on sizing and quality. Quality is great, and washes beautifully. The fabric for the knits is similar to Canadian brand Sympli, or even Ribkoff.
I had more success with my abstract work translating to fabric.
I have just placed a larger order for birthday presents and holiday sales. Larger orders make a huge difference in per unit price, of course.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for letting me know about your experience with La Galeriste! I don’t think my type of art would translate well to clothing, otherwise I might try it out.
Judy
I just read your question and had to look them up on Google. They have a great range, from bold to subtle, and I really enjoyed seeing all the art turned into clothing, tablecoths, bags and even masks for Covid. Very clever and cool.
I’m intrigued with the wearable art. Almost makes me want to create a painting just for this purpose!
I received the same and have been curious about this. Of course unfortunately in today’s world we have to be cautious with anything online. Especially when giving others permission to make copies or products with our works. I’m definitely going to look into it further.
I received their email and checked out the site but never did anything with them. However, this past weekend I was able to see a collection a fellow artist had done with them. She researched them thoroughly beforehand and liked what she found. She said they were easy to work with and she was quite pleased with how the pieces turned out. So now I may think about using them!
I signed up and created multiple outfits on LeGaleriste. I just ordered 2 of my artworks clothing. They told me the next shipment will be sent out on July 27th. So here I wait with my customers. I am hoping and praying this isn’t a scam.
Me and another artist I know LOVED the site and have beautiful art with no problem selling for many years on other platforms. We were told that each artist is allow up to 1,500 products total on their store. Both of us only had 130 and 139 respectively. With only 10 designs we were not even close to that many.
BUT we each received an email saying our store was DEACTIVATED because there was an “unusual amount of products created”. That made NO sense. So we each (separately) chatted with their team. We were told the same thing as the email and then the individual we chatted with (Elise) reiterated the 1,500 product limit. We each then told Elise that we had less than 150 total (10% of the allowed). Elise then reactivated the accounts.
BUT after each of the next 3 times we uploaded, we were DEACTIVATED yet again! This time they didn’t even tell us. We didn’t know until we logged in to see the designs.
SO… we chatted with Elise again.
THIS time she stated, “We have a 48-hour hold window for ALL artists so that you can only upload one design every 48 hours to not overload the system.”
Well, we waited 72 hours and were STILL DEACTIVATED.
We tried chatting again, only to be IGNORED.
We finally left one final message in chat saying, “I will be leaving your platform because of obvious bias but appreciated her help and will now go and leave reviews to prevent other artists from going through the same ordeal.”
So this review is for Beth and myself. Our word of advice?? STAY FAR AWAY FROM THE SEEMINGLY OBVIOUS BIAS.
And we do have all the emails and chat logs to prove all of this.
LeGalerist is the worst company ever!
I had also seen ads for this company and had really looked forward to working with them. I submitted 3 designs and had several pieces picked out, I turned on all functionality that would help me including the website and was designing my own website to redirect the link to the LeGalarist website. Everything was fine. I had planned an entire marketing plan for it. I was so excited. The first red flag was finding out that all of the functionalities I had turned on had been turned off and I was barred access AFTER I had turned it on. No emails, no explanations.
I looked up their reviews and found 2 negatives. One was an artists who followed the rules but kept finding her site was deleted with them. The second was a linkedin review that due to toxic work culture and the CEO being toxic most of the staff quit and walked out in 2023.
I emailed them and asked that they turn the functionality back on. They stated they wanted me to PROVE my commitment by buying the clothes for myself. The problem is I am a BBW plus size woman and they did not have my size. I planned on eventually buying pieces but first, all of my funds was budgeted for marketing. I explained I was running a business not joining a cult. This is not how POD (Print on Demand) works.
I asked them again to turn on the website functionality otherwise I am finding that I don’t trust them and their actions were unacceptable. If they did not turn on the functionality I would delete my account with them.
They went in and put zero on all of my items. NO explanations, no responses no emails no further communication.
I have since deleted my account.
It is basically internally hacking my account.
DO NOT TRUST THEM. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THEM.
I am glad they showed their true colors in the beginning rather than when I have invested too much. Forget toxic…there’s a level of crazy in that company that people need to be warned about.