Design Agencies for the Fashion Industry
Fashion design studios offering design, development and branding services.
Are you looking for fashion design services? A design agency gives a clothing brand a complete creative department on call: designers who can sketch a line, CAD artists who can color it, pattern makers who can make it real, and graphic designers who can brand and package it. This directory lists fashion design studios and agencies serving the fashion industry, from full-package product development firms to print studios and branding specialists.
New to the vocabulary? Start with What is a fashion design studio? in the fashion terms section. Companies that need individual artists rather than a studio can use the Designer Search service — a free tool that helps fashion and textile industry artists, designers and design studios and the companies searching for design assistance find one another: artists post their design portfolios and advertise their talents, while employers search for the artists they would like to work with. Adjacent help, such as Hair & Makeup Design Agencies, sits in the models section.
Fashion Design Agencies & Studios
383 Design Studio
383 Design Studio is a full service design studio specializing in fashion, graphic, and educational services for the fashion and fashion related industries. Services include fashion, graphic and product design, computer aided design (CAD), and workshops and one on one training in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for the fashion industry.
Phone: 917-293-9133 | Email: info@383designstudio.com | Contact: Mikelle Drew
Apparelmark
Apparelmark Freelance Design & Development Solutions is a freelance fashion design and apparel development firm. They work on a contract basis for clients and brands looking to jump start their collections through innovative design, technical fabric, accelerated prototyping and speedy manufacturing, and describe themselves as a sustainability conscious and quality focused company.
Address: 2256 West 4th, Vancouver, Canada, V6K 1N8 | Phone: 1-778-838-8409 | Email: andrew@apparelmark.com | Contact: Andrew Drigola
Art Direction Services
Art Direction Services has on staff creative designers and Macintosh experts, and on call, writers, photographers and illustrators. They regularly work with several printing vendors, matching them with the requirements of each project, and are experienced at print production, planning and quality control, as well as website design, production and maintenance. They can assist the clothing industry with logo design and more.
Art Zulu Inc.
Lora Flaugh is President of Art Zulu Inc., a Manhattan-based design firm specializing in brand identity, positioning, and launching. Art Zulu works with premier brands and celebrity names to extend their brand equity into fashion categories, and has also worked on home furnishing lines. Her Print Studio division sells original textile designs to over 300 clients and represents two European studios. Her work has been recognized in WWD, DNR, Children's Apparel News, Crain's New York, VIBE, Source, Seventeen, Mademoiselle and Rolling Stone.
Bergman Associates
Bergman Associates (Berg Associates) is a New York based design and advertising agency offering logo design, corporate identity creation, branding, art direction for photography, graphic design, advertising, marketing, editorial design and package design. The agency was founded in 1991 by creative director Robert Bergman, a recipient of multiple international design and advertising awards.
Creative Input
Creative Input customizes its services in time and content to each business's need: trend translation, design, merchandising, line planning, key items and sourcing solutions, with domestic production direction, resource referral and import assistance. The initial consultation is free.
Design Principles, LLC
Design Principles, LLC is a full package apparel and accessories development and production solution, specializing in start-ups to medium size clothing and accessories brands for all markets and price points. Services include CAD illustrations, clothing line cost estimates, design concept sketches, fabric and trim sourcing, garment samples, grading and marker making, manufacturer sourcing, merchandising, pattern making, sales representation, small run production, tech packs, technical drawings, trend and line illustration boards, website development and wardrobe styling.
Address: 1914 Cordova Road #107, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316 | Phone: (727) 488-8162 | Email: lance@thedesignprinciples.com | Contact: Lance Gordon
Design Works International
Design Works International is a full service design studio focusing on the home furnishing and fashion markets. The company's Manhattan loft, in the center of New York City, is filled with creative and technical talent, in an atmosphere built around finding a thoughtful, successful solution to each client's design challenge.
London Portfolio
Designing for the apparel, home furnishings, stationery and paper product markets, London Portfolio's in-house British designers offer directional trends geared towards the American market. All designs are created in their New York studio and never duplicated; exclusive copyrights are available on designs purchased or licensed. The studio exhibits in New York at Surtex and the Licensing Show and in Paris at Indigo, and also holds an extensive collection of antique fabrics gathered worldwide, offered for sale as design inspiration, with recoloring, redesign and repeat services for its collection.
Marcie Designs Inc.
Marcie Designs offers a portfolio of designs for the apparel, paper, and home fashions markets, featuring teams of artists from the USA, Australia, England, France, Italy and Spain. The style is youthful and energetic, adding spark to items from dresses to swimwear, blouses to pajamas, intimates to children's wear, plus beach, bath and paper products.
Savvy Apparel Studio
Savvy Apparel Studio is an apparel design studio and apparel product development firm in the United States, involved in the development of many apparel collections sold at well known retailers such as Nordstrom, Macys, Costco and Walmart and at high end boutiques. Services include apparel design, pattern making, digitizing, grading, markers, tech packs, prototypes, final samples, raw materials and factory sourcing, and production management.
Phone: 801-674-5651 | Email: info@savvyapparelstudio.com | Web: www.savvyapparelstudio.com
Silver Image Studios
Located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles fashion district, Silver Image Studios is a full service design studio specializing in the fashion and entertainment industries — a one stop solution from creation to completion for fashion manufacturers, wholesale clothing distributors and clothing retailers, with services in photography, graphic design and web development.
The Style Council
The Style Council (New York) is a leading design and service studio with a track record in creating prints for menswear, womenswear, childrenswear and home furnishings, offering both hand painted and computer generated service work. Founded by design professionals with experience in all phases of the fashion industry — printing, weaving, manufacturing and merchandising — the studio takes projects from concept to completion under one roof.
Address: 62 Seventh Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10018 | Phone: 212-564-9380 | Fax: 212-594-2315
Triffet Design
Triffet Design is a full-service creative studio with clients worldwide, specializing in graphic design, retail packaging and point of purchase display design, tradeshow booth and display graphics, brand identity programs, apparel design and merchandising and web design.
True Designs
True Designs presents textile designing in patterned form — designs for Jacquard, Damask, Applique, Aubusson, Chintz, Cretonne, Brocade, Ikat, Kashmiri, Tapestry and Dobby, among others — designed specially for home furnishings upholstery fabrics and feminine clothing, with a repeat view tool showing exact repeats.
Waker Eins
Waker Eins (Germany & Turkey) is an Istanbul and Berlin based design team offering illustration and fashion services for clients ranging from start-ups to large listed companies. Their illustration customers are advertising agencies and fashion and trend magazines, and they design book and CD covers, postcards, flyers and shopping bags. For fashion, they offer design and manufacturing of corporate outfits, trend scouting and costume services for TV and movie productions.
Choosing an Agency
Match the studio to the job. A brand that needs a whole line developed should look at full-package firms — the ones listing pattern making, tech packs, samples and production management alongside design. A brand that needs surface design should look at the print studios, whose business is artwork, repeats and recoloring. A brand launching or relaunching should look at the identity specialists, whose work is positioning, logos and launch creative. Nearly every route eventually needs production-ready artwork, which is why the fashion technical drawing section (in the navstrip above) is a natural companion to this directory, along with the merchandising background in More to Explore.
Common Questions
What does a fashion design agency do?
A design agency (or fashion design studio) supplies creative and development services to clothing brands: fashion, graphic and product design, computer aided design (CAD), trend translation, line planning, pattern making, tech packs, samples, branding, packaging and web design — hired per project or as an ongoing studio.
Who hires a design agency?
Start-ups launching a first collection, established brands that need extra design capacity or a specialty such as print design, and companies entering a new category. Agencies with full-package services can carry a line from concept sketches through samples to production sourcing.
What is a fashion design studio?
A fashion design studio is the working home of that service — a team of designers, pattern makers and graphic artists producing collections, prints, branding and packaging for client brands. Apparel Search explains the term in its fashion terms section, linked below.