§ the work/N° 07

Maze Collection

Since
2026
Sector
Commerce · Wholesale

A Garment District wholesale house: four fits, four fabrications. The range is public; the pricing signs in.

Status
Live. Trade-gated.
mazecollection.com
§ 01the business

What it is.

Wholesale-only women's pants house at 1384 Broadway, selling sealed 24-piece single-color case packs from California and New Jersey. Ponte, Modal, Scuba, Double Knit in Missy, Plus, Petite, Juniors, under the house label plus licensed Kay Unger and Aerosoles. Stocked at eleven national retailers.

§ 02the starting point

What existed, what was asked.

What existed

13 Excel line sheets with one CAD sketch each. Later, iPhone hanger photos and a pricing sheet. No logo system, photography, measurements, or clean data.

What was asked

A brand system and a live, trade-gated wholesale storefront built from one identity. Merch mockups.

§ 03foundation

The identity.

Ponte is the proof. The range is the point.

Mark

MAZE wordmark with a tracked COLLECTION lockup. Onyx on bone, red on bone, chalk on red for the heritage hangtag.

Faces
Headlines
Pants, perfected.
DM Serif Display
Body
Fit, hand, drape, recovery, block, the workroom.
DM Sans
Palette
Maze red
#C8102E · logo, hangtag, buttons
Bone
#F5F2EC · ground
Onyx
#161616 · type
Slate
#4D4D4D · body
Greige
#E7E3DB · wells
Voice
  • Confident, never loud. We state, we don't sell.
  • Fabric first.
  • Made for the full run, 0 to 18.
  • Say fit, hand, drape, recovery. Never luxury, premium, flattering, cheap.
§ 04foundation

The build.

Platform

Shopify custom theme, CLI deploys. Python catalog pipelines. Agency page on Nimbus.

  1. Trade-gated pricing: MSRP public, wholesale after login, three tiers
  2. Order-by-the-case engine on fit and color metafields; 25 definitions
  3. Brand resolution across Kay Unger, Aerosoles, and Maze
  4. Landscape spec-sheet PDFs on all 73 original products
  5. CAD angle-crop galleries, per-colorway switching, hover-play tile videos
  6. Private Label inquiry, Retailers, trade application, collections hub
  7. JSON-LD without price; branded OG card
  8. 13 email templates; print flyer; 24-slide merch and packaging deck
§ 05the engine

The media.

On-model — bootcut ponte pant
On-model — ponte flounce skirt
Scuba set — vest and wide-leg pant
Woven-tag macro — the red label
Colorway carousel — the swatch card
§ 06the engine

What we run.

Fifteen services. Four stages, in order.

OngoingDeliveredNot in scope
00Foundation
Brand identity
Wordmark system, hangtag, guidelines, flyer, merch and packaging deck.
Delivered
Web
Custom theme and agency landing page.
Delivered
Commerce build
110 active products with real pricing; Plus line; daily feed rules.
Ongoing
01Acquire
Ads
SEO
Structured data and OG pass.
Delivered
AI search
Social media
Media generation
On-model carousels across the range, 19 tile videos, woven-tag macros, a naming deck for a new line.
Ongoing
Marketplaces
Creators
02Convert
Conversion
Front desk
03Compound
Lifecycle
13 branded notification templates.
Delivered
Reputation
Operations
Pricing loads, tier remap, daily feed mapping rules.
Ongoing
§ 07the engine

What runs without us.

  • DailyInventory CSV feed, scripted
  • Planned · HourlyDatabase to Shopify sync
§ 08the record

In order.

  1. 01Logo; 73 products and 71 CADs imported
  2. 02Private Label, Retailers, collections pages; agency page; email templates
  3. 03Guidelines v1.0; real hanger photos received
  4. 04Spec sheets 73 of 73; SEO pass; studio pipeline, tile videos, color switching live
  5. 05Catalog to 103 real styles, Plus line, real pricing on 110
  6. 06New-line naming deck shipped
§ 09the record

What was built.

  • 110+149
    products, variants
  • 73
    spec-sheet PDFs
  • 215
    CAD crops
  • 19
    tile videos
  • 11
    national retailers
  • 24
    merch mockups
§ the door One door.

What’s the business, and what isn’t working?

A sentence is enough — starting from scratch, or building on what you have. We come back with what we’d do, what it costs and how long. Usually within a day.