The questions we hear most.

A reference is enough. A photograph, a sketch, a physical garment, or a moodboard, anything that communicates the silhouette and intent. From there our team builds the tech pack, patterns, and material plan. You don't need finished technical drawings to start a conversation.

Yes, provided the run meets the 200-unit minimum per style across two colors. We have taken first-time founders through their debut collections. The minimum is what lets us run the production properly. Below it, the system cannot deliver at the standard we hold.

Eight: activewear, swimwear, knitwear, denim, dresses and skirts, underwear and corsetry, accessories, and crochet. That includes the technically demanding work most agencies avoid: boned corsetry, fully-fashioned knitwear, and hand-crochet at commercial scale.

200 units per style, run across two colors. That is the threshold for a full production run. It is not a hurdle. It is the filter that keeps both sides focused and ensures we can put the full production system behind your run.

Price is built from the garment, not from a rate card. Four things set it: the materials your design calls for, the construction complexity, the number of units per style, and the finishing your brand requires. A fine-gauge cashmere sweater and a jersey knit tee move through different mills, different machines, and different amounts of hand-work, so they cost differently at identical volume.

You get an estimate before sampling begins, once we have seen your reference images and target categories. It is a real working range, informed by a decade of production data, and it is enough to decide whether to proceed. The firm quote comes after the sample is finished, because that is the point where the material, the construction, and the labour are known rather than projected. You approve a number against a garment you have held.

Yes. Sampling is a costed stage, paid before it begins. Development patterns are drafted, yarn or fabric is sourced in small quantity, and a technician builds the garment by hand. The sample fee is separate from production and is not credited against the run.

What you receive is the physical sample. You hold the garment, assess the fit and the drape and the material in your own hands, and decide from there. That is what the fee buys: a real answer on whether the design works, before you commit to a full run.

One team handles six connected stages: design and technical development, raw material sourcing, sampling, production, quality control, and logistics. You communicate with the same team throughout. Nothing hands off to a third party between steps. The full process is detailed on the How It Works page.

Yes. That is the usual starting point. A reference image, a sketch, or a physical garment gives us enough to begin technical development. We translate it into a buildable pattern and run sampling until the result matches your brief. You do not need a completed tech pack to begin a conversation.

Fashion manufacturing IP protection is built into the way we operate, not bolted on as a policy. NDAs run the full length of the chain, from us down to each factory. Each facility sees only the styles it is making. Our team verifies the unit count on the floor so no extra units leave without authorization. We prevent factory copying of fashion designs by limiting access at every level: only the team on your account can see your files inside Tirarin. Nothing is shared between clients. Your ideas leave exactly as they arrived.

Going direct to a factory looks cheaper until the problems arrive: designs that get copied, quality that shifts between batches, no one to call when something goes wrong, and a reorder that does not match the original. A fashion production agency takes ownership of the whole outcome. The design stays protected, the standard holds across every run, and when something goes wrong the agency resolves it rather than passing the blame. At Tirarin, one team is responsible from the first reference image to the freight that arrives at your warehouse. The difference is certainty: you know what arrives because someone with real accountability was responsible for it the whole way through.

No. Tirarin is a production partner, not a brand. We do not sell garments under our own label, and we do not compete with the brands we produce for. Our business is your success, not building a competing collection with what we learn from yours.

This is the same principle behind our IP protection: each factory in our network only sees the styles it's making for you, and nothing you develop with us is ever repurposed, referenced, or cross-pollinated into another client's work, let alone a Tirarin label that doesn't exist.