Low minimums. High craftsmanship. Zero compromise.
Mode De Vie RTW offers finished garment manufacturing services to select designers and fashion brands that use hand embroidery in their ready-to-wear collections — without the headaches of high MOQs or offshore mass production.
Hand Embroidery as a Signature
We are most relevant if the garment you are producing includes a hand-made element — from trims and motifs to all over embroidery. We strive to create pieces that will stand apart from generic factory outputs.
Low Minimums, No Inventory Bloat
We are not volume hungry. Our hunger is to create 1 of a kind pieces and we will produce as few as 6 pieces per design, so you can test, refine, and release new styles without locking up capital in stock.
Design-Led Production
We work as an extension of your design team. Share your sketches, swatches, or inspiration — we’ll translate it into embroidered, stitched, and finished garments.
Indian expertise. Global Standards.
Trusted by couture houses like Elie Saab and Naeem Khan, our Mumbai-based atelier offers world-class sampling, QC, and ethical production.
We work on hand embroidered wall installations for luxury homes, offices & hotels. Our clients are architects and interior designers who have been commissioned to design spaces for some of the most celebrated and influential people in the world and through them we have been able to work on some extraordinary creations. We do not share photos of completed projects because we believe that once an embroidery installation is custom made for a client it becomes their personal property and only they have the right to share it with the world.
Yes absolutely. There’s nothing more satisfying than creating a piece of art that just right for the space you are designing. Working with hand embroideries is quite liberating as it allows us to create embroideries from sculptures, paintings, photographs, jewelry, prints, wildlife and portraits using only our skill with an embroidery needle.
Four to Six weeks to ship a custom made hand embroidery installation.
It takes about two weeks to custom design a swatch for approval. Once the swatch is approved, our commercial artists will draw the artwork detailing the embroidery placement providing options for the architect’s approval. Where changes are sought we wait till final go ahead on the sample before communicating a firm ship date. Because of our vast experience in handling embroideries, we are always able to estimate how long something might take to complete and what it may cost and we are rarely off our estimates. We also insist on firm project deadlines by clients as it helps us organize our work.
Yes we always provide an estimate based on the size of the work and the embroidery swatch that has been created for approval.
Your embroidery installation will be wrapped carefully to prevent any damage in transport. We do not provide frames with the embroidery. Once you receive the embroidery you will need to get it mounted by using a local picture framing service. We recommend the use of anti-reflective or even museum glass to cover the embroidery so it doesn’t gather dust and is preserved in its original condition.
We have been shipping embroideries all over the world for more than 12 years and have had maybe a handful of instances where there has been a slight damage to the embroidery. For contingencies, we always include a repair kit with all our embroideries so minor nicks can be fixed by anyone that knows how to use a needle. If the damage is extensive, you can return the embroidery to us for fixing. Don’t count on this happening as we know what we’re doing.