Private Label Cashmere Knitwear and Custom Tailoring

Program Terms at a Glance

The commitments a brand needs before it can plan a season. Pricing is quoted per style, because a cashmere sweater and a structured coat have nothing in common on cost. If something here does not fit your situation, say so in the form and we will give you a straight answer.

Shipping and import duties are additional and confirmed with your quote. Counting from a first inquiry, a tailored style takes about 3 to 4 weeks to sample and 6 to 8 weeks to produce, so plan on roughly 9 to 12 weeks to first delivery. Reorders skip the sampling stage.

Who Private Label Is For

We run three B2B programs and they are easy to confuse, so here is the honest division.

Private label is for a brand that already exists. You have a name, a customer, and a point of view. What you do not have is a workroom, or a cashmere supply chain. We make the product; it goes out under your label, not ours, and your customer never sees our name.

If that does not describe you, one of the other two probably does:

• You are a designer starting out. Our Designer Program has no minimum quantity. One piece is enough, because a designer testing an idea should not have to fund a production run to find out whether it works.
• You are a shop that wants to stock finished garments. Our Retail Partnerships program sells to boutiques at wholesale, with minimums of 5 pieces per style tailored and 6 for cashmere.

The Designer Program is the door for a brand that does not exist yet. This page is the door once it does. Moving from one to the other is the intended path, not a failure of planning.

Cashmere Knitwear and Accessories

Everything we knit is cashmere. Not cotton, not acrylic, not a general yarn program with a cashmere option bolted on. The fiber comes from the Tibetan Plateau, and the pieces are knitted and handwoven in Nepal. If you are sourcing cotton or blended-yarn knitwear, we are the wrong workroom and would rather tell you now than after a sample.

Knitwear

• Sweaters and pullovers in 100% Grade A cashmere or cashmere blends, for men and women.
• Cardigans and knitted outerwear. Open-front cardigans, belted robes and longline knitted layers, the pieces a customer puts on over an outfit rather than under one.
• Women’s cashmere knitwear is the larger part of what this line already makes, and the range in the gallery below is mostly womenswear.
• Stripes, color blocking and pattern. We dye at the yarn stage as well as the piece stage, which is what makes a stripe or a two-color body possible rather than a print sitting on the surface.
• Six pieces per style is the minimum, lower than the ten we need for tailoring, because a knit style carries less setup than a cut-and-sewn one.

Handwoven accessories

• Scarves, shawls, stoles and throws, handloomed rather than machine-woven, which is where the slight irregularity in the surface comes from.
• Over 350 hand-dyed colors with Pantone matching, using azo-free dyes.
• Finishing. Embroidery, felting and printed designs. Tell us the effect you want and we will tell you whether it survives washing.

Blends, and when they are the right answer

Pure cashmere is not automatically the correct choice for every piece, and we will say so.

• 100% Grade A cashmere for the pieces where hand is the whole point.
• Cashmere-silk for drape and sheen, which suits a stole or an evening wrap better than pure cashmere does.
• Cashmere-cotton for a lighter hand and a longer selling season.
• Cashmere-merino where the price has to land somewhere a customer will actually pay.

The same line makes our custom cashmere gifts, cut to your design instead of ours.

Some of what the line already makes

These are pieces from our own range, shown so you can judge the hand and the finishing before you commission anything. Under private label they would carry your labels, in your colors, to your specification.

Custom Tailored Garments

Suits, jackets, trousers, shirts, vests and coats, for men and women, cut from your patterns or developed from your sketches.

• Pattern making from scratch. Send a tech pack, a sketch, or a garment you want interpreted. We cut the pattern and make it up in calico first so the shape can be corrected before your cloth is touched.
• Graded size runs. Once a pattern is approved we grade it across your size range, so the tenth piece fits the way the sample did. Tell us the range you sell and we will grade to it.
• Custom-made to your specification, or made to your customers’ measurements. Both are possible. A brand selling a made-to-order service to its own clients can pass measurements through to us.
• Formal, occasion and outerwear. Frock coats, tuxedos, statement coats and ceremonial pieces are ordinary work here rather than a special request.
• Screen-inspired and theatrical lines. Original garments interpreted from screen references, for brands serving collectors and enthusiasts. They are not replicas, and they are not official, licensed, or studio-authorized products. We describe them as screen-inspired because that is what they are.

Why Brands Work With Us

Your Label, Your Packaging

Private label only means anything if the finished piece looks like yours from the moment it is unwrapped. This is the part we handle in production rather than leaving to you on arrival.

• Woven labels set at the neck, waistband or side seam, to your placement.
• Care and composition labels applied as you supply them. Tell us which market the goods are going to and we will flag anything in your specification that looks wrong for it, but the wording is yours to set.
• Hang tags and swing tickets attached before packing.
• Packaging discussed case by case rather than offered from a menu. Tell us what you have in mind and we will tell you whether we can do it and what it adds.

You supply the labels and tags, we fit them. If you have not had them made yet, say so early, because labels arriving after the garments are finished is the most common reason a private label order ships late.

How a Private Label Order Runs