Where private labels actually get made.
Three walls stand between a designer and her first label: minimum order quantities she cannot afford, quality she cannot control from a contract floor, and the constant fear that her designs will be copied before they sell their first piece. The Live Lab is built to take down all three. End-to-end small-batch production, quality control, and IP protection at every step: within the college's own ecosystem.
- Three walls. All three taken down. -
When you launch your label, these three walls stand in your way. The Live Lab is built to take down all three.
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The MOQ wall
Most factories will not take an order small enough for a first collection, and most designers cannot risk one that large. The Lab is built for small batches: start with a test run, and grow only as the market answers.
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The quality wall
Careful stitching, tested fabric, and finishing that holds up. You see every check. Reject what you must.
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The IP wall
Guidance on trademark filing and design registration, and nothing produced here is shared, resold or reused. Your design language stays locked to your name.
- What's under one roof -
Small-batch production
A production floor set up for small runs. Cut, stitch, finish, label, pack: all in one place.
Quality control
Fabric on arrival, in-process checkpoints, finished-goods audit. Reject ratios shared openly. Your standards, enforced.
IP and trademark
Guidance on trademark filing and design registration. NDAs with suppliers. Sample boards kept in the archive.
Fabric, print, finish
Cotton, linen, blends. Block print, digital print, embroidery, hand finishing. The full surface vocabulary on tap.
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