MotivMfg

About MotivMfg

MotivMfg was started in Beijing in 2016 by Daniel Gu, a third-generation tailor and designer, and Samuel Wei, founder of Radiance Blue. They set out to blur the line between handmade and machine-made clothing, and everything from sketch to garment happens in their studio, a converted loft in a former 1950s factory. Patterns are hand drafted using European tailoring methods dating back to the 1920s, then checked with drape and baste fittings on models. The clothes mix vintage tailoring drawn from antique European manuals with classic workwear production techniques. Fabrics come from woollen mills in England and Scotland and cotton weavers in Japan, and former European sample makers handle production. They aim for "recreations" rather than "reproductions".