Less than 6 months after debuting her signature clothing line, The Lauren Conrad Collection, The Hills star Lauren Conrad has endured a fashion designers worst nightmare- being dropped from L.A.’s boutique Kitson’s due to “lackluster” sales.

Making matters worse, on Friday rumors surfaced that Lauren isn’t the real creative force behind her collection.

“It’s the best-known secret in the fashion industry,” an insider tells OK!. “The real designer is named Sherry Wood.”

Lauren was quick to respond saying,

“I’ve been involved in this entire process, every single step of the way. I have wanted to be a fashion designer since I was a little girl. I grew up designing and sewing dresses for my barbie dolls, and the Lauren Conrad Collection has been my dream come true.”

And LC rep shoots down the talk, telling OK!, “The line is doing amazing and is in 500 stores around the country including Bloomingdale’s. Lauren is absolutely the designer.”

While that could still be up for speculation, one thing’s for sure though — the 22-year-old loves seeing her clothes worn by others.

“I normally stop and talk to them,” she tells OK! at the Animal Fair’s 9th Annual Paws for Style event. “I think they think I’m a little odd because I ask for a picture of them!”

Although I think the taking pictures of people who were your clothing designs is kinda weird, I definitely think that Lauren is involved with her clothing line. From TV and magazine interviews she seems really proud of her creations and them finally coming to life. She seems too happy for all of this supposed hard work to be fake. What do you think?