Saigon, Vietnam · Product creation for soft goods brands
Test small.
Scale what sells.
Design, development, sourcing, sampling, production and QC, run by one team on the floor in Saigon. Apparel, bags and accessories.
What we make
ApparelBagsPacksAccessoriesProduct creation, built as a system.
From brief to delivery, design, development, and production run as one operation. Not a chain of vendors.
the problem
The way brands build product is broken.
3,000-unit minimums on styles that haven't been validated. 18-month development cycles for a market that moves quarterly. Factories that hold pattern ownership. No visibility into what's happening, or when.
The model was built for a different era of retail. Brands are overcommitting, overbuilding, and discounting the result.
The brands that win don't forecast better.
They build systems that let them test before they commit.
The System
Design, development, sourcing, sampling, fit, production, and QC are all owned end-to-end. No fragmented vendors. No dropped handoffs.
~6 months brief to delivery (DTC) · Industry standard: 18
Learn more→The Team
Designers, pattern makers, developers, QC, and production leads embedded in Saigon. On the UNCVRD team, not at the factory. You own your patterns. Always.
On the floor · Fit sessions in person · Brand-owned IP
Learn more→The OS
120+ milestones tracked per style. Tech packs, BOMs, and AQL reports live in one place. Real-time visibility into every program.
Real-time · Every handoff logged
Learn more→The sequence
From brief to restock, one operation.
- 01
Brief. You tell us what you want to make, who it's for and when it needs to land.
- 02
Design. Our designers turn the brief into silhouettes, construction and materials.
- 03
Development. Patterns, tech packs and BOMs, made by our team in Saigon. You own the files.
- 04
Sourcing. The right materials and factory for each style.
- 05
Sampling and fit. Samples built and fitted on the factory floor in Saigon.
- 06
Production. A small first run, managed on the factory floor by our team.
- 07
QC. Inspected by our QC team, not the factory's.
- 08
Ship and restock. Your goods ship, you read the sales, and we restock what sells.
the model
Same product. Opposite outcome.
On a $100 product, the decision to test before committing changes everything downstream.
The Old Model
Avg Discount
40%
to clear inventory
Gross Profit
$30
on a $100 item
Gross Margin
50%
Gap Inc. data
The UNCVRD Model
Avg Discount
5%
data-driven sell-through
Gross Profit
$55
on a $100 item
Gross Margin
58%
Inditex/Zara data
Gross margin benchmarks sourced from Gap Inc. and Inditex annual reports. Zara: Fast Fashion, Harvard Business School (2006)
built for
Premium brands ready
to move faster.
Elevated Craft. Disciplined Execution.
→ You've overcommitted to MOQs and paid for it in inventory
→ Your development timeline is 12 to 18 months and you know it's too slow
→ Your factory owns your patterns and you're not comfortable with that
→ You want to test around 600 units (about 200 per color) before committing to thousands
→ You're done managing vendors who don't talk to each other
let's talk
Start with the right conversation.
UNCVRD works with a small number of brands at a time. If you're building premium product and need a faster, more disciplined way to develop and scale. Let's talk.
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