Private label means the garment reaches your customer with only your name on it. Nothing about the label, the tags or the carton mentions us. You get a product that looks and behaves exactly like something you made yourself, without building or managing a production line.
We are Imily Clothing, a private label clothing manufacturer in Guangzhou. Since 2012 we have produced private label garments for more than 300 brands, from first-time founders to established labels selling into the United States, Australia and Europe. Around 70% of our clients are high-end custom branded apparel.
| Working method | Who designs it | Whose label goes on it | Who owns the pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private label (what we do) | You, with our guidance | Yours only | You |
| OEM | You | Yours only | You |
| ODM | We bring a ready design, you brand it | Yours only | Shared |
| White label | A supplier catalogue | Yours only, same product sold to others | Supplier |
In practice, most of our clients sit between private label and OEM: they bring a design or a reference, we help develop it into something producible, and the result is theirs alone. We do not resell your design to anyone else, and we do not put your pattern in a catalogue.
A garment only feels like your brand when every piece of it does. We ship and attach:
If you do not have the artwork yet, tell us what you want the label to say and we will help lay it out. If you already have a designer, send us the vector file and we will follow it exactly.
Beyond the label, your branding lives in the decoration:
We will tell you which method actually suits your design rather than which one makes the order easiest for us. Sometimes that means recommending you drop a colour from a print, because at 100 pieces the setup cost would not be worth it.
1. You send your design. A tech pack is ideal, but a sketch with measurements and a reference photo is enough to start. We will tell you what is missing.
2. We develop the pattern and quote. You get a price per piece, fabric options and a lead time, usually within 24 hours.
3. Sample. We make a single sample so you can see the fabric, fit and finishing before anything is cut in bulk. One revision round is included.
4. Labels and packaging go to production. While the sample is being approved, we arrange your woven labels, hang tags and printing so they are ready when the bulk fabric arrives. This is the part most first-time buyers forget, and it is the most common reason a shipment gets delayed.
5. Bulk production. Fabric inspection, cutting, sewing, decoration, and two rounds of quality checking.
6. Packing under your brand. One piece per poly bag, your barcode on the carton, waterproof inner bag for sea freight.
7. Delivery. Air, sea, express or DDP door to door. DDP is available for the United States, all of Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Fabric decides whether a design works. The same pattern in a different material becomes a different garment, which is why large fashion brands develop their own fabric rather than picking from a list.
We are based next to Zhongda fabric market in Guangzhou, the largest fabric and trim market in southern China. Because we are twenty minutes away, we can walk a design through the market looking for the closest match to what you have in mind — and we do not charge a sourcing fee for it. If the exact fabric you want is not on a shelf, we can usually have it woven or knitted to order.
You can choose to work with:
Every step that carries your name should be checked harder than a generic order, and ours is:
If something does not pass, we fix it before it ships rather than let you find out from your customer.
No. Your pattern and your design are produced for you only. We do not sell the same design to another client.
No. Tell us you want labels and we will arrange them with the production. It is usually cheaper and faster than sourcing them separately.
100 pieces per style. You can split those across sizes and up to three colours.
Sampling is usually 7–10 days. Bulk production is 20–45 days depending on quantity and decoration, plus shipping. Labels and packaging add a few days if they are being made from scratch.
Yes. Send us yours and we will sign it, or ask us for a simple mutual NDA.
We are a Guangzhou clothing development and production company. Development, fabric and trim sourcing, pattern making and sampling are all handled by our own team; the sewing is done by factories we have worked with for years, and we manage that production directly. You deal with one team from first brief to shipment, and if you are in Guangzhou we will take you to the factory producing your order.
Because most factories will not develop a garment for you. They expect a finished pattern, a tech pack and a fabric order, and they set their minimum around their own line capacity. We do the development, buy the materials and build the sample first — which is why a 100-piece order is workable, and why you only have to explain your idea once.
Sourcing is part of how we build your order, not a separate agency fee. Tell us what you need and we will quote the whole job — development, materials, sampling and production — as one number, so you are not assembling a price from three different suppliers.
Send your design, your artwork or just the idea. We will tell you what it takes to produce it under your own brand, with honest numbers and no pressure to scale up before you are ready.
Branding starts with a clear brief. See what to send before you ask for a quote, including labels, tags and packaging.
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