Most companies in this industry make you sit through three sales calls before they will whisper a number. We would rather just tell you. Here is what our services cost, what the price includes, and how billing works. If your project needs a custom quote, we say so plainly and tell you what drives the number.
Every service below bills the same way: half when the contract is signed, half when the finished work ships. No retainers, no surprises, and no fees invented along the way.
Custom Product Development
Black Label Elite, from $1,500 per style. Full custom development from concept to a production-ready prototype. The package includes two prototypes, a complete tech pack, a digital pattern, and a full fabric and trim source list. You own the pattern, and you can take it to any factory on earth, including ours. Pricing starts at $1,500 for simple constructions such as basic tees, simple swim, and sarongs, and rises with complexity. Structured swim, hoodies, and dresses sit in the middle. Outerwear and technical garments sit at the top. Your salesperson confirms your price in the first conversation.
Black Label Essentials, $1,200 flat per style. A cosmetic adaptation of one of our proven patterns. One prototype, an updated tech pack, and a production-ready package, in your colors and with your branding. The pattern stays ours, which is exactly why the price stays flat and the timeline stays short.
Extra revision rounds beyond what the package includes are $400 per round. Most projects never need one.
Elite runs about 4 to 6 months from kickoff to delivery. Essentials runs about 3 to 4 months.
Manufacturing
Black Label Manufacturing, quoted per order. Production runs at our vetted partner factories in Java, Indonesia, under a separate manufacturing contract. You pay one number that covers the whole package: factory production, materials, quality inspection, export coordination, and our project management. Nothing gets added on top of it later.
Every product has its own minimum order quantity, set by the factory’s run economics. Your salesperson confirms the MOQ and the price in your Order Confirmation before anything is signed.
Catalog Manufacturing
White Label, priced per product. Order from our catalog of proven styles with your branding, your colors, and your customization from a published menu. Each style carries its own unit price, listed alongside the product. Customization such as custom prints, embroidery, and label setup is itemized in your quote, so you see every line before you commit.
The Reference Pack is $75 flat, credited to your first order. It gets you a reference garment in our standard base fabric, a Pantone color card, the Customization Guide, and access to the full digital catalog. It is the cheap way to know exactly what you are buying before you buy it.
Most White Label orders complete in 3 to 4 months.
Sourcing
Discovery, $750 flat, paid upfront. For products we do not manufacture ourselves, such as hats, shoes, accessories, and hardware. We research the supplier landscape for your product category, vet the candidates, collect and normalize quotes, and deliver a written Discovery Report in 10 to 14 business days. Each product category is its own Discovery.
Factory Liaison, from $2,200, custom quoted. If Discovery finds you a supplier worth working with, Liaison is the design and coordination work that turns the match into a real product order: design and customization, supplier-format specs, negotiation, sample review, and a complete handoff package so you can run the relationship yourself afterward.
Advisory
Advisory Day, $1,750 flat, paid upfront. A full working session with Richard on a specific decision: a launch plan, a new category, a production crisis, or a strategy that needs stress-testing.
Advisory Retainer, $2,500 per month. Ten hours of Richard’s time each month on a weekly cadence, with email and messaging access in between. Three-month minimum. Overage hours bill at $250 per hour.
Fractional Executive, from $10,000 per month. Richard embedded in your business roughly 30 to 40 hours per month as a strategic operator, fractional COO, or fractional CMO. Six-month minimum, custom quoted, application only.
Education
The Brand Foundry free library costs nothing and never will. Guides, templates, the Fashion Startup Report, and ten years of hard-won lessons, free to anyone building a brand, client or not.
For founders who want a structured path: the Fashion Startup Bootcamp is $297, the Founders Pack of templates and tools is $147, and the Bundle of both is $397, which saves $47.
So What Does a Whole Project Cost?
Here is the honest answer. A first product developed through Essentials can reach a production-ready prototype for $1,200. A complex custom garment through Elite, followed by a manufacturing run, costs more, and the manufacturing side depends on your product, your quantities, and your materials. Anyone who quotes you a total before knowing those things is guessing.
Tell us what you are building, and we will put real numbers on it.
