SBSFor fashion designers
A production partner for fashion designers.
SBS Fashion is a New York-based sourcing and production partner for emerging designers and brand design teams across North America. We help turn a collection into a real supply chain, with fabric development, sampling and fittings, and production through to final shipment, plus consulting and brand development for startups and SMEs.
01How it works
What designers get.
- 01
A brief the supply chain can execute
We start with your brand, your customer and the line you want to build, and translate it into a brief the supply chain can execute.
- 02
Patience on the sample
Prototypes and samples are refined through fittings until they are ready to approve, with the patience to get the sample right.
- 03
Fabric while it can shape the design
Access to fabric trends and available stock across prints, denim, lace and knits, brought to you early enough to influence the collection.
- 04
Guidance for new product lines
Consulting and brand development guide startups and small and medium enterprises through new product lines, backed by market research and trend analysis.
Where we plug in
From first idea to final shipment.
- Stage 01
Vision
We start with your brand, your customer and the line you want to build — and translate it into a brief the supply chain can execute.
- Stage 03
Sample
Prototypes and samples across categories, refined through fittings until they are ready to approve.
- Stage 06
Shipment
Final shipment of merchandise, coordinated from New York so the collection lands when it should.
Track record
Three decades of apparel production.
- Years in apparel production
- 30+
- Brands served over three decades
- 100+
- Brands in production today
- 24
- Offices: US, Türkiye, Vietnam, China
- 4
- Sourcing and fabric partners
- 11
In production today
John Varvatos, Todd Snyder, Scott Barber, PLT Golf, Casablanca Polo, David Donahue, Rye51, Robert Barakett, Vineyard Vines, Dillard’s, Antonio Melani, Alex Marie, Gianni Bini, Saint Art NY, Loeffler Randall, Rebecca Taylor, Peruvian Connection, Royal Highnies, Psycho Bunny, Scarlett Gasque, Aimé Leon Dore, Loomstate, Black Heart and RE/DONE.
See our brand partnersDoes SBS Fashion work with emerging designers?
Yes. SBS Fashion works with emerging designers turning a first collection into a real supply chain, as well as with leading US brands.
Can SBS Fashion help a startup launch a product line?
Yes. SBS Fashion offers consulting and brand development for startups and small and medium enterprises, guiding them through the inception and development of new product lines with market research and trend analysis.
What should a designer send SBS Fashion to get started?
Tell SBS Fashion about the product, the timeline and the market. SBS will come back with a plan that runs from fabric to freight.
Does SBS Fashion have a minimum order for designers?
SBS Fashion’s website does not list a minimum order. Share your product, quantities and timeline, and its New York team will point you to the right next step.
From the blog
Reading for designers.
Lace3 min read
Embroidered lace or raschel: choosing the right lace.
Both are sold as lace, but they are made differently and behave differently on the body.
Designers3 min read
From first collection to a real supply chain.
What to bring to a production partner, and how the money moves between the first deposit and the first store payment.
Designers3 min read
What a minimum order is, and how to work with it.
The number a factory quotes is the last of several minimums, and often not the one stopping you.
Designers3 min read
A first collection usually has too many styles.
Each added style brings its own fabric, samples, minimums and cash, long before it has sold a single unit.
Sourcing3 min read
How to write an apparel sourcing brief.
What a partner needs to match your program to the right mill or manufacturer, and what can wait.
Sourcing3 min read
Sourcing agent or production partner: what are you buying?
The labels overlap, so ask who pays whom and who carries the cost when goods fail.
Start a project
Turn the collection into a supply chain.
Tell us about the product, the timeline and the market. We’ll come back with a plan that runs from fabric to freight.