Jacinta Law - Jackie Law - International Fashion takes advantage of artists, ripoff, money hungry, no integrity San Francisco California, Arlington Virginia

Wow...Amazing.  I think she ripped other people off at a different employer in San Francsico.  You can find her on Facebook- 

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Good luck to you all!

I was at the helm of the San Francisco Fashion Week and can provide you with factual information. As one of her "fortunate" show producers of the event, I can share with you some of the highlights. Although I was paid some of the monies promised, it was a downward spiral from the beginning.

It began when I was receiving calls from the international designers that they were waiting for their itineraries. No one was answering the event line and all the calls went directly to my cell phone. Only 2 days before did I have knowledge that the Fort Mason Venue was not secured due to non payment.

Designers tickets and hotels were paid and then later disputed. I called in a favor to book the hotels. Jacinta knew by not signing the authorization form, she would not be help responsible for the hotel charges. Therefore, designer Afshin Feiz was left in San Francisco having to pay out full coach fares for he and his entire team.

In addition, Afshin was NOT arrested. Although the police was called, once they were briefed about Jacinta's business ethics, they left. In addition, they requested a copy of his passport, but Afshin was not able to obtain it because the hotel would not release it until the hotel bill was paid, which was another disputed Amex charge.
Black Coffee designers were also left holding the bag with disputed hotel charges and unpaid airline tickets.

Throughout the entire project, she was robbing Peter to pay Paul. At one point, she claimed she was selling her company to Dusty at Terra Studios. When I confronted him, this was not the case and we all learned of her "white "lies. In the end, I hope no one ever has the misfortune of working with such as dishonest person. I applaud her entrepreneurial spirit, but no at the expense of others.

I was surprised to find a rebuttal from "Taylor", who speaks as if he/she had been with me during the Style Festival. I never met or had any dealings with "Taylor", and the "inside information" that he/she is sharing is completely false.

I was never paid for my work on the Festival, not even for the article that I wrote for the Style Guide. As for my not helping to load a truck... well, I was busy holding up a mannequin that Jacinta and Helene has thrown in the back to make room for the two crew men that loaded the flats. I was tired from the flight, but did show up for the scheduled production meeting (at 1 AM)... however, Jacinta failed to show and had to be called by Helene to get our call time (scheduled for 4 AM).

I reported to Union Square as I was asked at 4 AM, and stayed there all day, helping vendors locate their spaces and dealing with their contractual problems since Jacinta left and did not return to the venue until the final hour. Although it was not in my original docket of duties, I produced the fashion show on site. Jacinta was not available for the run through, she did not deliver the product for the make up crew, or provide any support for the designers that she booked.

Due to the whirlwind nature of the event, and the last minute purchase of my airline ticket, I had to leave the event early to get back to the hotel to catch my flight. I did receive a thank you, a goodie bag, or a pay check from Jacinta Law or "Taylor".

When it came to Fashion Week, I did require payment up-front for my participation. My duties, although they were supposed to be mainly clerical, did take on a larger scope in the realm of public relations when Jacinta stopped taking calls, returning calls and emails from designers and their representatives. Graffiti PR was not the only company to pull back their support from the event and issue a release in the eleventh hour.

The world must be entirely lopsided if a person or small firm, hired for "administrative assistance", could cause the collapse of a well-planned, organized, financially stable event. However, if the event has its own flaws, it will fail with no help. That was the case with SFIFW.

I am not, and never have been or will be, afraid of hard work. Just ask any of the satisfied clients that have seen me in action and reeped the benefits of my work. I would even go so far as to provide a full list of references to anyone needed further proof of my professional integrity and work ethic.

We are appalled and shocked (at the least) that Graffiti PR- Robert Hensley and Shaun Saunders has decided to post untrue events about their involvement online at ripoffreport.com and other public forums. Especially since they were paid in FULL for all their supposed work during fashion week and other events.

In response to the allegations regarding the style festival, we did in fact hire Graffiti PR for a test run. The owner of the company, Shaun Saunders had agreed to fly out Robert Hensley with his own funds. Two days before the event we received a frantic phone call from Mr. Hensley stating that Shaun never bought his ticket, we then agreed to purchase a ticket. Using our own personal funds we purchased a ticket for Mr. Hensley to fly out the day before the festival. We also flew an assistant production manager from Atlanta to San Francisco for the event.

Upon arrival, Mr. Hensley complained how tired he was, stay in his hotel room and did NO requested work whatsoever. Mr. Shaun Saunders, with full knowledge of how much work needed to get done spent the day on Market Street hanging out with friends. From 10am-4am the IFI team worked visiting about a dozen vendors picking up items and preparing for the festival. We had one vendor to visit and we were stuck in Oakland and this vendor would be closing at 5pm. We called Shaun and Robert (who were sleeping in their hotel rooms) to meet up at the vendor- with MUCH resistance they finally agreed.

We arrive and Robert and Shaun are sitting down the whole time while watching our female team load about 5,000 pounds props. Not once did they help. We all agreed on this particular task they were useless. Robert and Shaun did not start any kind of work until the afternoon of the festival- although everyone else had been working straight through since the day before. Around 11am, Robert decided to work and Shaun never quite made a decision to do anything. Robert did do a good job with the fashion s****.> In response to fashion week: Shaun Saunders and Robert Hensley were hired as lowly paid PR administrators. Since the Style Festival, we figured that we would only hire them to do email blasts and some basic administrative efforts.
Graffiti PR was paid in full for efforts concerning fashion week. Not only did they lose our company 2 valuable investors (by sending out a release the week of the event)- but their press release sent to our vendors, publicists, investors, clients and sponsors led to the cancellation of fashion week.

This is the MOST unethical team of PR people- not only do you steal your clients list of contacts, but you also send these contacts a slanderous release to valuable participants in the event.

On a personal note, Shaun Saunders was considered a friend of IFI. We had bailed him out of numerous situations including wiring him cash when he had no money, paying for his phone bill, helping him with rent. Mr. Hensley, we have only met once, but can imagine his information is coming from Mr. Shaun Saunders.

It's one thing not to do a good job, another to violate the oath of every PR professional holds dearly- and unfortunately Graffiti PR is one of the companies who, in our opinion- has no integrity, no work ethic and somehow feeding public misinformation.