Saigon style,
delivered anywhere.

• The research, the showroom judgment, designer-by-designer negotiation, and piece-level checks.
• Pieces stay at designer receipt price. I never mark up, and the receipts travel with the parcel.
• The stockist terms I negotiate — typically 10–30% below retail — often cover the fee outright.
• Bulk factory sourcing runs cheaper. This isn't that.
• Where a label has no room to move, I say so before you commit. There the fee buys access, checking and consolidation, and you decide with the real numbers in front of you.

Showroom time per style stays roughly fixed whether a piece costs 2,800,000₫ or 5,000,000₫ — so as your budget grows, the percentage can fall while the work is still paid properly. The ladder rewards the boutiques who come back, without ever making a small first buy unprofitable for either of us.

• Two to three pieces per style is curated stockist depth, not classic wholesale. At that depth, most emerging Vietnamese designers offer roughly 10–30% below retail as stockist terms — real, negotiated, and worth having, but not the 50%-off of a bulk purchase order.
• True wholesale tiers exist — typically 40–60% off — but they open at higher per-style minimums. Where a designer has one, your quote says so, and you choose the depth — the natural next step once a style proves itself on your floor.
• Some of the best DM-only labels have no wholesale program at all. When a piece is worth stocking even at retail cost, I say that plainly instead of promising a discount that doesn't exist.
• Territory exclusivity is rare at curated depth. I ask for it where it's realistic; I never assume it on your behalf.
• When a price has no room to move, I tell you that too — along with whether the piece still earns its markup at retail cost, or simply isn't worth your floor. A no from me costs you nothing; a bad buy costs you margin.
• Your sell-through shapes the next buy. If a style I recommended sits unsold after a season, tell me — that read goes into your next brief at no charge. Curation only gets sharper when I know what actually moved.

• No. The service is built for the distance.
• Saigon's designers sell by DM and Zalo. I negotiate, order and pay through the same channels from California, and my forwarder collects, consolidates and exports.
• What changes is the check: in a buying window, my own hands on every piece; between windows, the designer's photographs and measurements against my written spec.
• Where a piece truly deserves the in-hand look — heavy construction, couture-priced work — I'll tell you it should wait for the window.
• Your quote always says which check your buy gets.

• Included with an active buy brief — walked in person during a buying window, by live video appointment between them.
• Most houses will walk a serious stockist through the rail on camera. Where one won't, that label routes to the next window and I say so.
• Standalone research with no brief on file is my research rate: 650,000₫ an hour, two-hour minimum. Booked and paid before I set out, credited in full against your next buy.
• Every round returns as a line sheet: photo, price, sizes and lead time, per style.

Yes — one sample piece per style ahead of the full depth, on request. It ships at cost plus my standard per-item fee, and what you learn from it prices the rest of the buy.

• Bank transfer, Wise, PayPal or Payoneer — PayPal Goods & Services where you want third-party buyer protection.
• Paid in stages: the scouting deposit opens the buy; pieces at cost plus half the fee once the line sheet is with you; the balance plus exact shipping before dispatch.
• Never before you have approved photographs of every piece.
• Quotes are fixed in đồng — the currency your pieces are actually bought in. Each payment's dollar figure is confirmed at that day's rate, so nothing drifts silently between quote and balance.

• One consolidated export parcel, passed through at exact carrier cost with the receipt to prove it, always tracked.
• Declared-value insurance on larger parcels is arranged at cost before dispatch, on request.
• You are the importer of record: US duty and tariff on a commercial apparel entry are yours.
• Duty follows the goods — not my fee, not the freight, and not the number of boxes. Five parcels would mean five entries and five sets of broker charges; one parcel pays those once.
• I prepare the per-style commercial invoice — fibre content, construction and unit value — so your broker can classify each style correctly rather than at the top of the band.

• Allow three to five weeks from placed order — emerging designers cut to order.
• Rush timelines and atelier coordination run at the flat 20% rate instead of your tier, agreed before we start.

• Designer pieces are final sale unless the designer is at fault.
• The pre-dispatch photographs are our shared record.
• Report a fault within seven days of delivery, with photos, and I take it back to the designer for repair, replacement or refund where the fault is theirs.

Yes, there is a minimum: orders of about $100–150, or several items together. You will always see a clear breakdown before anything is purchased.

Small parcels can be estimated from the guide below. For larger consolidated orders, final shipping depends on packed weight, dimensions, and destination. For heavy hauls — 10kg+ / 22lb+ — I confirm the best packing plan and courier quote before dispatch, and may split a shipment into multiple boxes when that is safer or more economical.

Heavy (10kg+) and large hauls are custom-quoted after I plan the packing — never guessed. Chargeable weight may be actual or volumetric (L×W×H ÷ 5000).

I will flag any unusual customs or carrier risk before you decide. Customs duties and taxes depend on your country and are paid by the recipient.

When your parcel flies with DHL, I add GoGreen Plus — Sustainable Aviation Fuel that cuts the flight's emissions by around 30%. Every order ships in recycled paper packaging with paper tape, consolidated so fewer parcels fly — at my cost, never on your invoice.

Conscious Vietnamese brands I can source

High-end secondhand & vintage in Saigon

For circular shopping I can hunt curated thrift — e.g. Maintwo (D1), The Normal (Thủ Đức), 2Abnormal, Mayhem, Hebe Vintage, the Nhật Tảo (D10) shops, and market stalls at Bà Chiểu & Chợ Bàn Cờ. Designer secondhand via verified consignment on request.

Further reading:

Vietcetera — Vietnamese sustainable fashion brands · RMIT — Sustainable fashion in Vietnam · Global Fashion Agenda — Circular Fashion Roadmap for Vietnam