Made-to-order production for fashion labels and designers
No minimums
Made once sold
Designer-grade product
Production 7–10 business days
The entry problem
The game of fashion is a risky bet.
The minimum defines your collection
No minimums
No factory will run a style for fewer than a few hundred units, per colour, per size. So the pieces you love most are often the first to go, cut for the numbers rather than as a creative decision.
You fund it before anyone has asked for it
No stock bought up front
The stock is paid for months before a customer sees it. The capital is yours, the guess is yours, and so is whatever does not sell.
You discount what missed, and teach customers to wait
Nothing to discount
The pieces that did not move get marked down to clear the space. You lose the margin once, and you lose it again next season when the customer holds out for the sale.
The correction
Sell it first, then make it.
No minimums
Run one piece or one hundred.
Here there is no minimum. The difficult piece, the one you could never order five hundred of, goes in. The collection your customer sees is the one you actually wanted.
No stock bought up front
Nothing is made until your customer buys.
Production starts once the piece is bought, so there is no stock to buy and no warehouse to fill.
The money that would have funded the stock, and the discounting needed to clear it, goes into the brand instead. It pays for marketing, the next collection and better cloth. That money keeps working for you instead of sitting in a box.
Nothing to discount
Nothing is left to mark down.
You cannot be left holding what did not sell, because it was never made. There is no end-of-season clearance to write, no margin handed back to move dead stock.
The second cost is the one labels rarely count. Every sale trains the customer to wait for the next one. Full price stays full price, and the brand keeps the value you built into it.
The end-to-end ecosystem
From concept to the customer's door.
Most labels build a collection through many different suppliers, before they add marketing, PR, photographers and the rest. Holding them all together costs you margin, and it takes time away from designing. DAKUTX offers the full ecosystem. You keep the design, use only the parts you need, and add more as you scale.
DAKUTX
Manufacturing
Design
Brand &
Marketing
Market
Reach
Whether you want the full system or to go straight to production, we’ve got you.
Manufacturing
Tailoring, outerwear, leather, knitwear and evening wear, all with no minimum order. Each piece is made only once it sells, with standard production typically seven to ten business days.
Design
Available when you want it and never imposed. Bring a finished collection or develop it with us.
Brand & Marketing
We offer strategy, design and marketing alongside the making. Market feedback shapes each launch and campaign. We all win when the collection becomes a label people follow.
Market Reach
Two decades of dressing name talent opens doors a factory cannot. Press and retail partners are brought in per market as the platform grows.
What you also get
Offer more sizes, stock none of them.
Most labels stock the middle of the curve because the ends do not sell through. Made to order removes that maths. Offer a wider size range where the product category supports it, and carry none of it. You are not holding stock in sizes that may not sell.
React inside a season, not a year ahead.
Standard production is typically seven to ten business days from final order approval and payment, followed by delivery time. Seasonal calendars run six to twelve months out. You can answer what is happening now rather than what you guessed about a year ago.
Built around fit.
Fit is the most commonly cited cause of returns, named first by 53% of sellers, and it is the part small runs usually get wrong. Digital measurement profiles, digital pattern systems and 3D development workflows support fit where applicable.
Reorder without a new buy.
A sell-out can be made again rather than never. There is no reprint minimum and no second commitment, so a line that works keeps working instead of quietly going out of stock.
You control what they unbox.
Finished pieces ship direct to your customer in your packaging. The moment the box opens belongs to your brand.
Made against demand.
Nothing is made before it is bought. That is a position you can hold up to a buyer, a journalist or a customer who asks.Production is driven by demand rather than speculative bulk inventory.Fit-led production designed around the intended wearer and use.
What we make
Tailoring
Outerwear
Leather
Knitwear
Evening Wear
Full garment manufacture, made to order.
Cut, constructed and finished to one specification, in our own patterns, and made only once a piece is ordered.
Every order
What happens when someone buys.
- Production: typically 7–10 business days
- Delivery: time varies by destination
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01
Customer order
On your site, at full price. Nothing has been made yet.
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02
Production starts
The order is the signal to make. No stock is waiting on a shelf. Your customer gets order, dispatch and tracking updates.
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03
Cut and size
Made to your pattern and your specification.
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04
Brand packaging
It is your brand, your packaging, your customer experience.
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05
Delivered to door
Shipped direct to your customer, with tracking.
Labels & Designers
Is DAKUTX
a good fit?
Take the diagnostic to find out if we can reinvent your label.
Take the DAKUTX checkThe offer
Bring your label into made-to-order production.
Work with DAKUTX to define the products, manufacturing requirements and platform services your label needs. Start with an agreed range and a clear commercial scope, then receive a written proposal setting out what is included, what costs extra and how the program launches.
What your proposal covers
Styles and product categories included in the program. Existing designs you supply and any separately agreed development work. Available fabrics, measurement requirements and product specifications. Storefront or ordering workflow, authorised users and reporting. Sampling, production, fulfilment and support responsibilities. Ownership of existing designs and rights in any newly developed work.
Platform fee
From A$299 per month + GST
Onboarding begins after the agreement is signed and the agreed onboarding fee is paid. Monthly platform billing starts only when the agreed vendor storefront is live and launched. Approximately eight weeks from signing is a planning estimate, subject to the agreed scope, required materials and approvals. Your proposal itemises every charge, and the total depends on your scope.
Before you ask
What it costs
Your proposal separates onboarding, samples and development, monthly platform services, garment production, delivery and any additional integration or custom work. The applicable charges, billing frequency, term and cancellation process are stated before you commit.
Whose fabric
Bring your own mill or use ours. Your cloth is not limited to what the platform happens to stock, and a fabric minimum does not reintroduce the order minimum you came here to avoid.
Where it is made
Production is undertaken through DAKUTX’s approved manufacturing network, with core production currently based in China.
Who makes it
DAKUTX works with approved production partners selected for relevant manufacturing capability and quality requirements.
Who sees your patterns
We understand the importance of your unique IP and point of view. Your patterns and your tech packs remain your property. We never use them for our own pieces or for another label.
If it is wrong
If a garment is produced incorrectly or materially outside the confirmed order specifications, DAKUTX will work to correct the issue, including remake where appropriate. Issues arising from incorrect measurements supplied, subsequent measurement changes or preference changes may incur additional charges. Nothing in this policy limits rights available under applicable consumer law.
The DAKUTX process
Six steps, start to doorstep.
01
Start with a call
We work out what you need. That might be the full range, or one trial collection to see how it lands.
02
Read the proposal
You get the scope in writing. It sets out the range, what is included, what is charged separately and who does each step.
03
Sign it
Onboarding starts once you sign. Nothing begins before that.
04
Send the pack
Your tech pack, your patterns and your fabric direction. One style is enough to start.
05
Sample and fit
We make the first piece and engineer the pattern digitally, so later pieces are cut from the approved pattern.
06
Sell, then make
Your collection goes live. Production is triggered by the order, then shipped direct in your packaging.
How it started
Our story.
DAKUTX is founded and led by Daniel Avakian, one of Australia’s leading fashion designers. He trained in Florence, worked in London under Alexander McQueen and Giles Deacon, and has run his own label out of Sydney since 2007.
Two decades of running that label hit the same wall every season, and the wall was the minimum order. So he spent several years building the production system underneath it.
Daniel and his team of pattern engineers and production managers run the making, with DAKUTX’s approved manufacturing network behind them. Brand and marketing people work alongside the labels who want that.
Bring your own collection, or have it designed with you. Either way, what you make is yours.
Start with a call.
One call to work out what you actually need. For some labels that is the full range, brand and marketing built alongside the making. For others it is a trial collection, made once, to see how it lands.
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