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Setting up a workspace, inviting a factory, and getting a first style through the board.

  1. 01

    Getting started

    Bring one line rather than the archive — one season, the styles you are working on now. Your workspace arrives themed in your own typefaces and colours, with your size runs and categories already in it.

  2. 02

    Styles and tech packs

    A style begins as a sketch and a sentence. Construction notes, fabrication, points of measure and a graded size run are drafted from that, and you edit rather than start. The finished pack is one page a factory can read, shared as a link.

  3. 03

    Working with factories

    Send a link and they can open it — no login, no attachment, no version sitting in an inbox. A factory that wants an account gets one scoped to its own styles, with pricing and margin hidden. They confirm sample dates themselves and upload a photograph when a round lands.

  4. 04

    Fabrics and costing

    Cloth is held with its weight and the factory’s own code. Move a style onto another cloth and its tech pack follows, so the written spec cannot quietly disagree with what was quoted. The buy sheet carries size runs, colourways, quantities, minimums and margin.

  5. 05

    Merchandising and publishing

    Photograph a sample on a table and generate campaign imagery on a model, in a set built from your own references — the same cast, light and lens across a collection. A finished style carries its images, copy, sizes, colourways and price to your shop as a draft.

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