“NicolaNicola” was founded in 2024 by Vicki Nicola who continues to share her expertise and knowledge with all facets of the industry, including business, individual mentoring, masterclasses for students, individuals and organizations, patternmaking and grading, and custom bespoke work. With over 30 years of creative and technical knowledge, Nicola Nicola continues to develop and contribute to the industry. industry education & development.

Digital design & product presentations

MARLENE DAWN houses and develops the brand EDER BY ANNA, while also manufacturing and producing for other Australian brands. Our most common style of production or sampling is woven material.

Co-Sew is a sewing collective run by 3 friends, who each have 8-10 years experience working in the fashion industry in Melbourne. From our sample room in Brunswick, we offer fashion industry services to individuals and small businesses. We have expertise in both local and offshore production models, and we can help you with the many steps associated with these models, including:

— local sample making
— local pattern making
— Boutique local production
— Off-shore manufacturing
— tech + spec
— sewing + alterations (including B2B)

We are passionate about community and we love to share our knowledge - we also host regular group sewing classes and also offer private mentorship.

Our research found an incredible 82% time saving when using 3D virtual product development software, dramatically reducing the number of ​physical samples required to finalise design concepts and fit requirements. Fashion Tech Studio will show you how to achieve these same product development time savings, and waste reduction. Transform your business with Fashion Tech Studio's digital design services and training events. We utilise, teach and research fashion technologies like CLO3D, providing leadership in fashion's digital sampling evolution.

Image Digital prints, cuts and sews onsite. Specialising in polyester fabric printing and wide variety of apparel manufacturing. Specialised laser cutting service on site also. We currently manufacture for fashion brands, government, corporate, schools, clubs etc. We can assist with garment development including design, pattern making, sampling and fabric sourcing and can work with repeat patterns, placement pieces or plain colours.

We specialise in printing and manufacturing garments with an all-over print design including t-shirts, polo shirts, hoodies and fashion garments. Proudly supporting the Australian Made campaign.

We also represent ALVANON & GRAFIS CAD for apparel, in Australia.

Alvanon has developed the world’s most advanced technical sizing and fit tools to help our clients ensure accurate and consistent apparel product execution. One of the most essential industry tools is the dress form. Our AlvaForm professional dress forms and body forms are designed as the ultimate tool to address your technical fitting needs.

With the GRAFIS CAD software you have an innovative software for construction of clothing and technical textiles at your fingertips.
Thus, you combine traditional operations for generating professional patterns for the clothing industry with the advantages of digital, effective and intuitive processes.

One aspect that makes us different from other manufacturers is that we come from a bespoke, detail orientated, couture background. We cater especially for brands who require lower volumes, and have an interest in the environmental impact of their business. We seek to make long term connections and see our clients as part of our intimate collective. Our ambition is to create an inclusive, supportive and creative environment for independent and emerging designers to thrive and make their mark on the fashion landscape.

Sample Room has been partnering with both startups and well-established fashion brands since 2009, providing comprehensive end-to-end development and production solutions.
Our services encompass precise and innovative pattern making, sample creation, grading, specifications, and production for a wide range of sectors, including sports, swimwear, woven fabrics, fashion, and bridal wear. We are proud to be ethically accredited and offer educational resources and mentoring to further support our clients.

Fashion Smart is your dedicated partner for turning fashion ideas into reality. We specialize in assisting start-ups and businesses with comprehensive design room services, guiding you from concept to product development. Our team provides unwavering support throughout, including small-run manufacturing for precise and high-quality results.

Beyond design services, Fashion Smart is a leading training provider. We empower individuals to enhance their digital skills in patternmaking, grading, and CAD operation. Countless participants have successfully upskilled to CAD, CLO3D, and Adobe Illustrator through our proven training programs.

RBPATTERNS have established themselves as the leading freelance pattern making, grading and sampling house in Australia. We work across global scale and smaller niche brands successfully supporting their place in the market. We bring over 30 years of creative and technical knowledge.

Style Sync is a Melbourne-based apparel sourcing agency dedicated to helping brands bring their fashion ideas to life. We are known for our end-to-end approach, supports clients from design to delivery, handling everything from material selection to final production. We places a strong emphasis on sustainability and ethical practices, working closely with trusted suppliers who share its commitment to environmental and social responsibility. By ensuring quality at every stage, Style Sync not only meets but elevates the standards of fashion sourcing, offering clients a seamless journey to turn creative concepts into high-quality, responsibly produced collections.

Delivering the fastest turn around time in the fashion industry, and all with a smile.

Services include pattern making, pattern grading, full product development, sampling, industry connections, technical sketches, spec sheets and production packs.

EMERGING LABELS | New brand creation, product development.
ESTABLISHED LABELS | Improve quality and fit, outsource in-house grading.

Alongside her own namesake label, Lucinda Babi offers freelance services to help bring garments and designs to life. Working on a bespoke, small scale, she can work closely with customers to realise any garment idea.

A pattern maker is more or less a magician. Equipped with the powers to see what others cannot, translating vision into form.
We’re pattern makers. Our job is to assist designers and translate their ideas into the 3D world.

We are clothing manufacturers with a difference, providing trafficking survivors and other at risk and vulnerable workers in Cambodia with training, support and safe employment in our ethical and sustainable factory.
We aim to disrupt the global clothing manufacturing model where thousands of workers are forced into unsafe, overcrowded workplaces to mass produce low quality garments, worn for a season and tossed.
This large scale “take make discard” model is not ethical for workers, nor sustainable for the planet. Instead, we are creating a network of small, localised digitally enabled sewing hubs with 30-50 workers each supporting a team of outworkers sewing from home in neighbouring communities. All producing quality garments, adopting good environmental practices and paying workers a living wage.
Our subsidiary, Avodah Manufacturing (Cambodia) works with Cambodian social justice and rescue agencies who rescue women from trafficking and exploitation and provide counselling, education and health support. When these women are ready to be reintegrated into the community and take on full time employment, they require training and a nurturing, supportive work environment. This is what Avodah Manufacturing (Cambodia) offers.

Founded in 1993 & based in Abbotsford VIC, Marker Maker provides a pattern grading & marking service to the fashion industry using the latest StyleCAD technology.
One of the original grading services in Melbourne, Marker Maker (Sue) is highly experienced & highly regarded in the industry, offering thorough & reliable technical advice & a commitment to quality & accuracy.

We enable fashion creatives to produce and distribute their collections, from initial concept through to customer delivery.
We offer digital printing onto natural fibres and a print design service.
We lasercut all of our garments and manufacture locally in WA.

Freelance designer and patternmaker specialising in 3D CAD patternmaking and avatar development, design, virtual fitting, grading, printed patterns or CAD pattern files ready for your manufacturer, with Clo3D, to meet the needs of a more environmentally conscious fashion industry. 30yrs patternmaking experience.

Ivan Holmes, Director of Zenophen, has had a career that has covered every part of the fashion industry.

His experience has also allowed him to explore his artistic skill, tailoring/couture savior-faire, and high levels of industry management in New Zealand, Australia & London.

Our ethos here at Zenophen is to deliver high quality services and create strong and lasting relationships with our clientele.

We are producing, T-shirt, Poloshirt, Tank-Top, Vest, Trousers, Jacket, Sweater,
Sweatshirt, Hooded sweatshirt Etc…
For more information, you may visit our company website=www.arratex-bd.com

Thanks in advance for your kind cooperation. Looking forward to hearing
from you.

I am passionate about what I do and love working with my clients to bring their unique visions to life.

My skills include:

- Accurate & creative pattern making 
- Strong technical skills in garment construction
- Knowledge about ethical practices and sustainable sourcing 
- A thorough understanding of commercial manufacturing processes
- Guidance on the pros and cons of different fabrications and trims and finishes
- Connections with other industry professionals
- I have launched and owned fashion labels over the years. 

DesignMotiv is a textile and fashion design | development studio, specialising in intimate apparel, swimwear, activewear and soft separates. Providing a bespoke service, for start-ups and established design labels looking for textile print and full garment development services.

Founded by Judy Anderson, DesignMotiv is a textile and fashion design development studio, specialising in intimate apparel, swimwear, activewear and soft separates.

With over 25 years of outstanding international and local expertise, in all aspects of research, design and technical garment development, along with textile design expertise, you’ll gain access to a wealth of invaluable knowledge. Along connections to local and offshore industry professionals and teams.

Expertise
Intimate Apparel & Corsetry | Swimwear | Active & Sportswear | Soft Separates

Services
Surface/Textile Design | Moodboards | Rangeplans | Garment Design | Technical illustrations/CADs | Production Ready Technical Packs | Measurement Specs | Patternmaking and Product Development | Garment Fitting

Want to find out more?

Let’s get in touch to discuss the full range of consulting and contract services we have to offer.

I specialise in womenswear, offering made-to-measure garment making for private clients, as well as pattern-making, pattern-grading and Cut, Make, Trim services for small, sustainable brands.

I help fashion startups and established fashion & textiles brands bring ideas to life and produce quality, profitable and ethical collections. I can work with you on technical design, product development, tech pack design, patternmaking, sample making, fabric and factory sourcing, managing production and QC.

I can give you focussed, flexible attention on the areas you need help with, including:

technical flat drawings / CADs
tech pack design services
brand fit strategy
patternmaking & sample making
fabric & trim sourcing
factory sourcing & liaison
offshore production
ethical garment production
consulting
one-on-one training
referrals to industry experts based on specialisations

We help you to launch and grow your fashion business with:
- an online print shop with downloadable textile designs
- custom fashion, textile and graphic design
- technical packs and CADs
- ethics and sustainability consultancy

Melbourne Sewing and Patternmaking is a small, locally owned and operated business, offering a variety of industrial machines for anything from sample development to small scale bulk production runs. With 10 years of industry experience, the owner, Karin, has experience managing everything from mass offshore manufacturing down to developing local prototypes for RFT for the Aus Defence Force. She now enjoys a more hands-on approach, and loves getting to know the legends behind local labels; championing a more sustainable approach to our supply chain and the business of fashion as a whole.

Quillan is an intriguing amalgamation of passions: Personal expression through the artistry of fashion, natural organic fabrics, supporting small ethical factories and suppliers, sustainable practices, a desire to safeguard our health, and a solid belief in co-creating a better world for all who inhabit this precious Earth.

Sample Room services established designers, designers returning to Australian manufacturing and start-up designers develop their styles. With a very experienced team of pattern makers, cutters and sample machinists all under the one roof in our new workroom in Collingwood, Sample Room can help with patterns, samples, grading, markers, detailed specs, etc.
Sample Room has invested in the latest technology to allow us to provide stand alone grading and marker making services for those with paper or card patterns.

Studio Elastica is a fashion design and development studio specialising in swimwear and activewear.

With over 25 years-experience designing and developing fashion product for internationally acclaimed brands, our skilled team can take your creative brand vision and work with you to launch a physical fashion range.

We offer bespoke, full-design services and are industry experts in concept creation, garment development and fit.

We work with established designs teams, start-ups, stylists and industry experts to refine and develop concepts and streamline design team procedures and practices.

We offer consulting and contract services across all aspects of fashion design and production.

Fashion designer and couturier, specializes in occasion wear, also does bridal customization and alterations, costumes designer and styling.

We deliver Industry specific programs as well as provide Consultations and Product development services for early stage, emerging and growing fashion business.
We strive to be the ultimate Fashion Business Program provider for creatives wishing to run their own fashion businesses alongside recognition for our ability to deliver the highest quality in our product development services
Our USP include detailed information provided by relevant industry experts who span over three decades of experience, and are genuinely invested in the best outcomes for participants, hence always going the extra mile.

From initial design concept through to dispatch to your customer, Expresslink is here to help you realise your fashion dreams.

With 15 years experience in fashion production, Katie Freeman and her team are passionate about providing cost effective services to fashion designers. Using a unique laser cutting system, we specialise in small to medium sized production runs with no minimum order quantity and a fast, local turnaround.

Image Digital is your local digital eco-friendly fabric printer. Printing on a wide range of fabrics or you can supply your own. We also offer textile laser cutting and local ethical manufacturing as well as a wide range of marketing and promotional products to assist with your business needs. We are registered with the Australian Made campaign for fabric printing and apparel manufacturing.

We provide a niche, personalised service, and specialised industry and technical knowledge to our government, corporate and industry clients. We liaise closely with industry while operating independently of suppliers and manufacturers.

Products we work with include uniforms, performance and protective clothing (PPC), corporate wardrobes, promotional clothing, accessories and footwear, and health, hospitality and institutional textiles.
We facilitate better procurement outcomes by analysing, simplifying and systemising how our clients identify, purchase and manage their TCF requirements.

IMAGEWORKS uses proprietary and proven tools and templates to address each organisation's specific requirements, and ensure efficiency, transparency and accountability.

We are very hands-on and guide our clients through every step, enabling them to understand and manage priorities and risks, and take control of their procurement processes, outcomes and contracts.

Jamie Ferris-May Studio provides design and development services, support and mentoring to established and emerging fashion labels to ensure successful OS or local made product. Jamie's many years of experience and vast knowledge in the fashion industry ensures your product is in capable and professional hands.
Services include:
1. Considered product design and development - ensure the best commercial outcomes.
2. Creative pattern design and sampling - local and OS production.
3. Production-ready tech packs - local and OS production
4. A reliable source of local suppliers and manufacturing services
5. Small-run, sustainable and ethical OS manufacturing services.