Just catching up, you couldn’t make this tit up!
We know she doesn’t “design” anything. The turn around between “collections” is too quick & if she did, she’d talk about the process, show sketches, talk about fabric, you know actually work some days - she tells us everything about her day but she never says “I’m sitting down to design, work on my collection” because it doesn’t happen. This would take months if she was designing anything. At a push she picks things out of catalogues then says, maybe make the sleeves bigger, make this shorter. At a PUSH.
If Ali express are ripping off her collection then in the style and LL will address it if not then the answer is in the silence. I guess the other thing that could have happened is whatever Chinese factory they buy from went against the usual exclusivity agreement they surely have and it’s ended up on Ali Express.