OEM · Private label · Made-to-measure
Private-label suit manufacturer in China
Centi Sartoria manufactures made-to-measure suits, tuxedos, jackets and coats under your own brand, your woven labels, your packaging, from a one-piece minimum, factory-direct from our Shanghai atelier of 200 house tailors. Launch a designer-grade line without owning a factory.
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How private label works
Pick the cloth & make
Choose from 33 European mills and merchants and your construction, fused, half- or full-canvas. We share the line sheet and specs.
Brand it as yours
Woven labels, hang tags, packaging and care labels to your specification. The garment ships as your brand, not ours.
Order from one piece
MOQ 1. Sample a style, sell it, reorder. No upfront bulk commitment to launch a line.
Receive factory-direct
Cut to each customer's measurements and shipped in ~14 to 20 working days, ex-works from our Shanghai atelier.
What's included
- Custom woven brand labels (neck + care)
- Your hang tags, packaging & garment bags
- Made-to-measure to each end-customer's measurements
- Premium European cloth, 33 mills and merchants, 1,000+ fabrics
- Fused / half-canvas / full-canvas construction
- Suits, tuxedos, blazers, jackets & overcoats
What you supply, and what we supply
You provide
- Your brand name and logo artwork in vector form, for the woven label and hang tag
- The label wording your market requires. Fibre composition, care symbols, country of origin, and the business responsible for placing the garment on the market
- Your customer's measurements, taken however you prefer, or a size
- The specification: cloth, construction, lining, buttons, lapel and any house detail you want repeated on every order
- Your own import arrangements. You import as a business, at your own duty rate
We provide
- Cloth from 33 European mills and merchants, cut and made in our Shanghai atelier
- Woven neck and care labels, hang tags, garment bags and packaging produced to your artwork
- Pattern adjustment from a refined base block to each customer's measurements
- A written spec that is stored and repeated, so the tenth order matches the first
- Ex-works shipping documents and a single point of contact for the order
Automated customization, or made to measure
Both get called custom. They are different products, and the difference decides which clients you can serve.
| Automated mass customization | Made to measure under your label | |
|---|---|---|
| How the size is arrived at | The client is placed on a size chart and the pattern is adjusted algorithmically. Nothing physical is tried on before cutting. | Cut from a graded block to the client's own measurements, and confirmed first on a physical sample garment your client actually puts on. |
| What can be changed | The option set the platform supports. Outside that set the answer is no, and it is no for everyone. | Cloth, construction, lining, pockets, buttons, finishings, and anything else a pattern room can cut. A request outside the usual gets an answer, not a rejection. |
| Where the cloth comes from | The factory's own cloth programme, chosen for the platform rather than for your client. | Accounts with 33 European mills and merchants plus our own house range. You can name the reference, and we will tell you what it costs and when it lands. |
| Minimum order | Usually one garment, but one garment of the platform's product. | One garment, on your own specification, with your label in it. |
| Whose client it is | Depends entirely on the platform. Some sell to end consumers as well as to trade, which puts you and your supplier in the same market. | Yours. We produce for shops and brands and do not sell to end clients. Your name is in the jacket and ours is nowhere on it. |
| When a garment comes back wrong | A returns process, usually against the specification as entered rather than against the client on the day. | We remake it. The correction also goes back into that client's file, so the second garment starts from a corrected block. |
| How the lead time is quoted | Very short numbers are common in this category, and they usually describe production days only, with cloth sourcing and transit counted separately. | 14 to 20 working days in production on cloth we hold, with sourcing time and transit stated separately rather than folded into one comfortable number. |
None of this makes automated customization a bad product. It is fast, consistent and well suited to a shop selling a defined range at a defined price. The question is which business you are building. If you are selling on price and speed inside a fixed option set, that model is the right tool. If your client expects to choose the cloth, be measured properly, and have the garment corrected until it is right, you need a pattern room behind you, and that is what this page is describing.
The label will say Made in China. Here is how brands handle that.
Every garment carries a country-of-origin label, and ours reads China. There is no version of private-label manufacturing where that is not true, and a supplier offering to omit or alter it is handing you a customs problem, not a solution.
It matters less than most founders expect. The brands your customers already own are made in the same handful of countries, and the label is read after the purchase rather than before it. What decides the sale is the cloth, the fit and the finish. All of which are on the garment before the label is.
The positioning that survives a customer asking directly is the honest one: European cloth, cut and made in a Shanghai atelier, sold under your name. Brands that state this plainly on their own site do better than brands that leave it to be discovered. The discovery is what damages trust, not the fact.
What you cannot do is claim a European origin. \"Made in Italy\" and equivalent marks are legally defined and enforced; applying one to a garment made elsewhere is a false-origin declaration rather than marketing.
Frequently asked questions
What is a private-label suit manufacturer?
A factory that makes suits to your design and sells them under your brand, not its own. Centi Sartoria manufactures made-to-measure suits in Shanghai with your woven labels, hang tags and packaging, so a boutique or new label can sell a designer-grade line without owning a factory.
Do you do OEM and private label for new brands?
Yes. We work with emerging brands and boutiques from a one-piece minimum, which lets you sample and sell before committing to volume. Your branding, your labels, your price.
What is the minimum order for private-label suits?
One piece. There is no bulk MOQ. You can order a single made-to-measure suit under your own label.
Can I put my own brand label in the suits?
Yes. Custom woven neck and care labels, hang tags and packaging are all produced to your specification. The finished garment carries your brand only.
Where are the suits made and what is the lead time?
In our atelier of 200 house tailors in Shanghai, China, factory-direct with no trading company in between. Roughly 14 to 20 working days per made-to-measure order.
Will the suits carry any Centi Sartoria branding?
No. The finished garment carries your labels only. Neck label, care label, hang tag and packaging are all produced to your artwork. We are a production partner, not a consumer brand, and we do not sell to your customers.
Does the label have to say Made in China?
Yes. Country of origin is a legal marking requirement in every market we ship to, and the garment is made in Shanghai. Any supplier willing to mark it otherwise is creating a customs liability for you, since the declaration is made in your name as the importer.
Can I supply my own cloth?
Yes. We produce CMT (cut, make and trim) from cloth you send in, as well as from our own mill range. It is the usual route for a brand with an existing mill relationship or an exclusive cloth. Ask for the CMT terms, which differ from a full-package order.
Will you sell my design or my cloth choice to another brand?
No. Your specification, your patterns and your label artwork stay with your account. Discretion is the normal condition of this trade. Most of the made-to-measure names on the high street are produced by someone else, and none of those factories name their clients.
What happens when the same customer orders again?
The specification and the corrected measurements are stored against that client, so a repeat order is a message rather than a new fitting. This is where the model becomes profitable for a brand: the second and third orders cost you almost no time.
Who is the exporter and who pays the duty?
We ship ex-works from Shanghai with the documents you need. You import as a business in your own country at your own duty rate, which is why the landed cost is yours to control rather than something built into a wholesale price.