| AnabelleNYC -Manufactuer |
New York (Brooklyn area) |
Worse exprience ever! Anabelle NYC, does not ever meet deadlines, She lies a lot. Tell you one thing and its another. Good at sewing and pricing. Thats it. If you want your line to launch on time DO NOT GO TO HER. You would be better off going to a manufactuer who has morality and understand start up money does not grow on trees. I am in the processs of taking away and adding to my collection. Due to ANABELLE NYC , lost about 6000.00 dollars because the season I wanted to launch for has came and went. My Lesson is to do research |
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| Rainbow Leather |
New York (College Point) |
http://www.rainbowleather.com/
Rainbow Leather does full-color printing, foil stamping, cutting, perforating, and embossing of leather. I have so far only used them for full color printing, but I can highly recommend them for this. I talked to and tested out many other leather printers before I chose Rainbow. They are responsive, fast, and reasonably priced. They answered all of my emails within 24 hours, and they turned around my orders within the quoted time frame (2 weeks). The one issue I had was that I had leather hides delivered to them and signed for by their front desk, but they weren't aware they'd received them. So, if you send them hides from an outside source, be sure to get the tracking code and follow up with Rainbow as soon as you know your package has been delivered. When I followed up they were all over it. They'd found my package by the next morning, and all was right back on track. They're also great about sending free samples of their work so you can see it for yourself before you commit. A+ |
8/1/18 |
Laura Shape |
| Funari Fashion Consulting |
New York (Brooklyn ) |
http://www.funarifashionconsulting.com Janelle Funari and her business partner Danny Levine run this company. They are expensive and have no system for communication whatsoever. Sometimes texting and sometimes calling and rarely emailing the messages are confusing and unitelligible. They SHARE an email address so you don't even know who is writing to you! A design meeting is $975.00 and their retainers are $2500.00 and they go through them quickly. After asking many questions I was told, "perhaps you shouldn't be in fashion." I was reminded daily about "how they have launched over 50 successful brands" and that "they could do this shit in their sleep". Hubris does not make for good business. I had to get really mean and legally agressive to get them to WORK FOR ME. I ultimately had to fire them. My lawyer (who said they are notorious for being unprofessional and money grubbers) has had to intervene to get my second retainer back...or what's left of it. There are many other choices for product development in NYC, do not use them. Feel free to reach out to me if you want more detail. |
1/14/19 |
David Mucci |
| Thread Tech, Inc |
Boston, MA |
After designing my first full line of clothes I was excited to work locally with a new manufacturing company that advertised that they could take designers from idea to production, completing all the necessary steps along the way under one roof. Initially I was impressed with the attention to detail that the owner, Donielle Martorano McKeever, displayed while showing me the work done on some other pieces. I value quality workmanship so was thankful to find someone who did as well.
I picked up two completed styles in early July and found that none of the sewn pieces looked like I expected. The simplest example being that striped pants didn't have the strips lined up at the seam and patterned skirts did not have the pattern centered. Two aspects that should be basic quality requirements. I brought everything back the next day to show Donielle and was told they would take a look and make sure to correct everything. She asked me to email details of everything that was wrong with pieces which I did. One week later I was sent an email stating "she had discussed the matter with her attorney and he would take it from here." I was dumbfounded.
3 months later and the situation is still not resolved. Thread Tech has all of my patterns, samples, designs, fabric, etc., and money. I have done a lot of research into this company, its founder and backers. What I've learned is that Thread Tech is at least the fourth manufacturing business Donielle has started and two have been taken bankrupt along with designers property. Their pricing structure while advertised to save a designer money and time, is actually way over standards and a la carte. For example, Tech packs are $300 and not complete or detailed so useless. |
10/8/19 |
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| The D.N.A. Group |
San Francisco, CA |
The short version is that they are unreliable, unprofessional and are not accountable. Worked with them for two years. During that time I received poorly made samples with many errors. The patterns were full errors as well and some were completely missing pieces or had the wrong pieces. I tried to get the patterns fixed by a third party but there are so many errors that I have to get them completely redone at this point. Now, I have nothing and I am in the process of having my pattern completely remade.
Below are details if you have time to read through.
1. Sample Making Process:
a. Overall poorly made samples were produced.
b. No Quality Control. Samples were clearly rushed to be made for the fitting and no one reviewed them before the fitting.
c. Errors - Didn’t offer to fix their errors for free
i. Backwards collars on two samples
ii. Buckled lining
iii. One side of the jacket longer by 2”
iv. Bad samples overall which made it hard for me to determine if the fit was right and/or if I can move forward with finalizing my samples.
2. Suppose to be experts that you can rely on:
a. Didn’t even mention that I should have interfacing in my jackets until I asked about it later on.
b. They feed on your lack of knowledge.
c. Since you already paid them, they didn’t have your best interest and I just felt like the root cause of the sample issues never really got addressed.
3. Not accountable for your timeline at all.
a. Slow process and doesn’t respect your deadlines.
b. They will tell you a date that something will be completed by but they don’t give you any updates but miss your deadline.
4. Not professional.
a. Won’t pick up your phone calls or return your emails for several days.
b. People will go on vacation but you have no idea because you don’t receive an OOO reply letting you know they will be out or they don’t give you heads up about it.
c. Moving across the country without notifying their clients.
d. Logo, label, or hang tag development - I didn't receive any service on these items and paid others to complete.
5. Patterns included many issues:
a. They didn’t give me the specs at the time of the fittings so you weren’t really able to keep track of things that needed to be updated.
b. I was told that I would get my final graded patterns on July 5th but didn’t get until August 2nd. I was told that they needed the extra time for quality control review of the patterns.
c. I could clearly see there was no quality control review of the patterns. Just on one style alone I found the following errors.
i. Collar from the pattern was completely different from the sample. I had to have it remade to match the sample by another pattern maker.
ii. No back facing included in the pattern.
iii. No lapel facing patterns included.
iv. Several pattern piece indicating to cut “1”when the sample clearly showed that there “2”.
v. Missing patterns for the lining.
vi. There are so many errors that it is better for me to have them completely redone by someon else.
6. Material and sample fabric:
a. All my materials and samples were shipped to the east coast without my knowledge. We were coming to the end of my contract and I could have picked up my samples and fabrics avoided incurring shipping fees.
b. DNA Group lost 5 yards of lining that I have been tracking on my end since they were purchased in March 2019. Even though I know that it was not used in any samples they insisted that it was. Furthermore, I was told by them that they are not a storage facility and are not responsible for lost items. |
11/11/2019 |
Lori Reposa |