We provide comprehensive strategy, branding, apparel design, product development, and production services to a variety of clients.
COMPREHENSIVE CONSULTING & OUTSOURCED DEVELOPMENT
Our corporate fashion industry expertise, professional process, and exclusive global network help our clients bring their apparel product to market.
WE WORK WITH:
– Startups
– Influencers
– Emerging designers
– Mid-sized established brands
– Large enterprises
– Longstanding companies re-branding
– International factory partners
– Global brands entering the North American market
– Non-apparel based companies
Seasonal Concept & Trend
We provide seasonal design concepts by presenting you with concept decks, mood boards, trend call-out sheets, color palettes, and trending fabrications. We also advise on design concepts based on constant trend forecasting, market research, sample shopping, etc.
Brand & E-Commerce
Our team of brand strategists help establish memorable, lasting visual and verbal identities. We gain a deep understanding of your company’s mission and then develop the essential assets to effectively convey that message. This includes: a logo, style guide, messaging, labels, packaging, lifestyle/product photography, and a Shopify e-commerce website. By creating these assets alongside your apparel products, we ensure strong cohesion throughout every aspect of your brand.
Brand Strategy Consultation
– Consultation on overall long term brand and product direction, how your brand fits into your market landscape, and what might be effective methods to distribute and scale your brand.
– Brand world and story development
– Brand name consultation
Brand Identity & Graphics
We will develop your key brand assets and apply them to your products. This includes:
– Logo
– Core messaging and brand voice
– Graphic system and typography
– Color story
– On product marketing (labels, printed graphics, hangtags, etc)
– Content and social media posting strategy
Photo & Video
When samples are complete, we will help you plan the Lifestyle and Product photography solutions that are best for your brand and budget.
E-Commerce Website Development
We will create a beautiful, intuitive and highly functional Shopify website that reflects your distinct brand. The site will include:
– Backend and digital inventory setup
– Fulfillment center or label printing integration
– Size chart development
– Product names, specs, and description copywriting
– Email marketing integration
– Third party integration setup as needed
– Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
– Training for managing site, adding products, and fulfilling orders internally
Packaging Design & Production Management
– Design custom packaging
– Factory and materials vendor sourcing/set-up for client
– Direct, manage and execute sampling process until samples are approved for production
– Direct and manage bulk production with select factory(s)
Fashion Design
Our Design Team sketches lines/collections based on creative vision and any existing concept work. Our professional sketches include front and back silhouettes in Illustrator, in black & white and in color if needed. We maintain constant communication with you and your team throughout the design review process to ensure that your vision is realized before moving on with development.
3D Fashion Design
Our designers are versed in 3D fashion design. 3D fashion design can be used for sales tools, brand teasing, raising funds, and cutting sampling rounds. It is a more eco-friendly and often cost-saving approach by reducing the use of materials, reducing shipping, and reducing cut & sew labor.
Full Development Packages
Our Design Team provides professional production-ready technical packages for all sewing details. Our Product Development Team sources multiple fabric & trim options from our extensive network of wholesale vendors. Once materials are selected, with your approval, we create a detailed bill of materials (a “recipe”) for each style. Tech designers are the engineers in the industry, and our Tech Design Team develops point-of-measure specs for each style based on extensive consultation with you regarding the fit of the overall brand and each individual style. Once complete, full development packages are ready to be passed off to the manufacturer.
Prototype/Sample Management
Our Project Managers will create time-and-action calendars with important deadlines for you and your business partners to follow. Our Product Development Team will set you up properly with a factory/factories in our global network to ensure your line is developed with the utmost quality at the best cost. Once full development packages are passed off to the manufacturer, our team will coordinate and communicate with the factories (either in the U.S. or abroad) throughout the sample rounds. After each prototype is complete, we will conduct fittings on fit models either at the factory or in our office to update each sample/development package until the fit is approved.
Production Management
Our Production Management Team will coordinate and communicate with the manufacturer (either here in the US or abroad) to stay on schedule and consult on production approvals. Our team will work with the factory to provide you with detailed costing sheets on your production runs. When it’s time to go into production, our Tech Design Team will create grade rules for each of your styles and our Production Management Team will work with the fabric vendors to get all production materials into the factory. Finally, we make sure the factory is set up properly for production and ready to produce your bulk goods. Our team can manage your bulk goods from the beginning of production until they exit the factory.