New York and Los Angeles
Renovazio is an American textile agency. Since 2005 we have carried Italian and European cloth to the design rooms that build with it, and stayed with the order from the first trial through to production.
The agency
Two showrooms, both holding the fabric collections and the accessories and trims collections in full, both open through the working week.
2005
Working the US market since
Two
Showrooms, New York and Los Angeles
Mon to Fri
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Who buys from the rail
Renovazio provides customer assistance to current and future clients. The names below are ours to say because the work is on the record, not because a badge was bought.
What we do
Six pieces of work, and they run into one another. A fabric that gets developed has usually been forecast first, and the yardage that follows is a manufacturing question before it is a shipping one.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The six
Development and sourcing sit at the middle of it. Everything else is either what happens before the cloth is chosen or what happens after it is.
Development
A design room arrives with a cloth it cannot find, or one that does not exist yet. We take that brief back to the mills, run the trials, and work the hand, the weight and the finish until the fabric does what the collection needs it to do.
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The agency
This is the whole of it. The mills stay in Italy and Europe. We are the part of them that sits on West 39th Street and on South Spring Street, holding the collections on the rail where an American brand can put a hand on them.
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Direction
Market research and forward direction, so a design room is choosing cloth for the season it is walking into rather than the one it just left. Styling and presentation sit alongside it.
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Construction
Design work on the cloth itself rather than the garment. Knit structures and woven constructions, the pattern and the finish, taken from a first idea through to a collection that presents properly.
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A solid foundation in garments manufacturing, with meticulous attention to detail and the standards the cloth deserves. Bringing a design through to made garments without losing what made it worth making.
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We organise our own textile events, including a fabric show in downtown Los Angeles, and we research the market the collections are going into. Both exist so buyers meet cloth in person.
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Cloth does not photograph honestly. The weight, the drape and the way a finish takes the light are things you learn holding it, which is why both rooms keep the collections out on the rail rather than in a catalogue.
Both coasts
275 West 39th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10018
600 S Spring Street, Suite 1211
Los Angeles, CA 90014
How it runs
Four steps, and a person on the end of each one. Nothing here is a portal or a ticket queue.
End use first, not a reference photo. What it has to survive, how it should sit on the body, what season it lands in and roughly what volume follows.
From the collections on the rail where something already fits, and from the mills directly where it does not. You handle the cloth before anyone commits.
Trials go back and forth with the mill. Weight, finish and colour get corrected against the real end use rather than against a mood board.
The order goes through and we stay on it. A production question at week six reaches the same people who ran the development.
Before you call
Representing Italian and European mills in the United States since 2005.
Renovazio works with brands, design rooms and manufacturers. If you are developing a fabric, sourcing for a season, or want to see what the Italian and European mills are doing this year, the rail is a phone call away.
