How many stitches for one bead? — notes on hand-sewn beadwork
2,400 glass beads on a single gown: a long, quiet road between pattern-maker and embroiderer.
"Keep something in reserve; leave the unfinished artistry to nature." A family maxim — and the way we make clothes. Nothing excessive; everything considered. What remains is room for your life to move in.
"Ready-to-wear is the answer given to everyone.
Bespoke is your light — illuminating the world."
LIUYU was founded in Guangzhou, under Guangzhou Liuyu Garment Co., Ltd., as a factory devoted to high-end womenswear customization. The name comes from a family maxim on leaving room in reserve — and it is also our attitude toward the bespoke trade. We believe that developing clothes a market truly needs begins with understanding: the figures of your consumers, their days, the occasions they dress for, and the brand you intend to become.
We develop with you, look for inspiration with you, land each new season's collection, carry it into batch production, and deliver to your door without worry — backed by an after-sales service of rare conscience. LIUYU is more than a factory: we are our clients' friends. Life, we believe, holds more than the smoke and fire before our eyes — it should also hold poetry, and somewhere far away to go.
Our team of eighty-plus pattern-makers and production staff practices one pattern, faithfully made; craftsmanlike sewing, carefully produced. Born into a family of tailors, our founder unites the restraint of Eastern line with Western structural tailoring — bringing bespoke service and fine garments into your business, and your life.
We place almost no advertisements. Nearly all of our clients arrive by the introduction of another client.
Trust comes before business. We want every client, every partner, every market to rest a little easier because LIUYU keeps its word.
A garment should first reach the heart. Honest commerce is the road that carries that feeling to more people.
Take the long road, and the right road; grow through change; let every craft and every deal return, in the end, to people themselves.
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From fabric selection and a pattern cut for you alone, to three fittings — roughly four to six weeks. For weddings, galas, and the once-in-a-lifetime.
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A refined base pattern, adjusted to your frame point by point, delivered in two to three weeks. The balance of daily wear and a finer standard of living.
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Complete design for wedding gowns, reception dresses, and eveningwear. From the ceremony to the last toast — one dress holds the whole day's light.
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From figure analysis to colour planning, we build a personal wardrobe of few, considered pieces — each one completing the others.
From first measurements to the final fitting on the eve of the wedding: five weeks, three fittings. The gown hand-joins French Chantilly lace with silk organza; the veil hemmed in a stitch of near-invisible fineness.
"Walking down that aisle, I knew this dress held more than thread."
A silk gown commissioned by a client who lives between cities: it folds into a carry-on, and steps off the plane without a crease.
"Lighter than any luggage, weightier than any words."
A wardrobe consultancy for a law-firm partner: twelve pieces that complete one another, moving without seam from the courtroom to dinner.
"Buy less, dress better — perhaps that is what bespoke taught me."
2,400 glass beads on a single gown: a long, quiet road between pattern-maker and embroiderer.
From wool in Biella, Italy, to silk in Zhenhu, Suzhou — where this season's fabrics come from, and where they are going.
An annual collaboration with an intangible-heritage Guangzhou embroidery workshop; every embroidered piece arrives signed by the hand that made it.