Montreal-based retailer and fashion designer Frank And Oak has been the subject of a growing amount of scrutiny online in the last 24 hours following a post on the Instagram page of the popular Mile End flower shop Dragon Flowers.

In the post, the shop says the large fashion brand was selling a shirt with an image of Dragon Flowers’ storefront “after we had expressed our disagreement in the distribution of these t-shirts.”

“We don’t stand for corporate posturing,” the post says. “Larger businesses that use small local businesses, like ours, to further their own agendas while ignoring the wishes of communities, is not something we choose to align ourselves with.”

“This lack of respect for our voice and space is the reason why we’ve made the decision to write to our community here.”

The t-shirt in question is “The Oversized Mile End T-Shirt in Bright White” from Frank And Oak. Currently listed as unavailable — the website presents it as sold out, and the URL redirects to the brand’s main page — the product description says it uses photography to pay “tribute to Montreal’s Mile End” as “a pocket of historical wealth, culture, and beauty … (and) a thriving centre for many artists, musicians, and quirky local businesses.”

Frank And Oak had also published an interview with the flower shop’s owner, Tamey Lau, in its online magazine The Handbook titled Inside the legendary Dragon Flowers shop. The article has since been scrubbed from The Handbook’s website, but it is uncertain when it was removed.

The brand posted a response in the form of an Instagram story following the post from Dragon Flowers. In it, the company stated that it was “looking into what happened with the creation of (its) graphic t-shirt.”