
Beyond Fast Fashion: A Bespoke Design House for Designers Who Refuse to Overproduce
- Gina Vincenza Van Epps
- 10 hours ago
- 3 min read
Helping visionary designers build ethical, small-batch collections with one-at-a-time production that values people, planet and creativity.
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What is Slow Fashion?
Slow fashion is the antidote to fast fashion, built on quality, ethics, and sustainability:
• Quality over quantity – garments designed to last
• Fair production – crafted by highly skilled, experienced artisans, paid living wages
• Sustainable fabrics – responsibly sourced, natural, or recycled and non toxic
Slow fashion reshapes how we create, consume and value clothing.
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What is Bespoke Production?
Bespoke production takes slow fashion further. Every garment is made-to-order, ensuring:
• Perfect fit and personalization
• No wasted inventory – nothing produced until needed
• Creative collaboration – designers and clients can co-create
• Elite craftsmanship – made by highly skilled, experienced artisans, paid living wages
One-at-a-time production respects people, the planet and the art of design.
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Why Ethical, Small-Batch Design Matters
Fast fashion harms the planet and stifles creativity. Small-batch, ethical production liberates designers:
• Control creativity without compromise
• Honor highly skilled, experienced artisans, paid living wages
• Create pieces customers cherish, not discard
Every collection becomes a statement: fashion can be beautiful, meaningful and responsible.
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Our Slow Fashion Design Development Package
We help designers bring their vision to life ethically and intentionally:
• Ethical fabric and notions sourcing
• Design development – refining ideas into full collections
• Bespoke, small-batch production – one piece at a time, crafted by highly skilled, experienced artisans, paid living wages
• Guidance and collaboration – from concept to finished collection
Your designs don’t just exist—they thrive. Every garment tells a story of care, creativity and sustainability.
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If you’re a designer tired of fast fashion and ready to create with intention, we’re here for you. Launch your first collection or pivot an established brand with our ethical, small-batch, bespoke design and production services.
✨ Reach out today and start building a collection that reflects your vision, values and creativity—crafted by highly skilled, experienced artisans, paid living wages—one garment at a time.
Fashionably Yours,
Gina Vincenza Van Epps
Design Director, House Of Vincenza
What’s so special about working with Gina?
Gina is an Emmy Award Winning Celebrity Seamstress for her work on Shakira’s Super Bowl Halftime Show Costumes combined her decades of knowledge and experience working for celebrities in ways that have merged fashion with costume design.
She most recently designed and produced over 200 costumes for the LEGO World Parade in California, currently running it’s second summer. (2025) This unexpected second season is a testament to the quality and durability of her design and construct, originally built to last only one summer.
As the President and Founder of Orlando Fashion District, Gina Directed and Produced 5 Orlando Fashion Battle events that focused on lifting up and promoting emerging designers, models, hair and makeup artists. By collaborating with several local photographers and videographers each their own individual styles, they helped make the images captured at her events, legendary.
Her mission to “bring garment production back to the USA” game is strong and comes through years of research to educate designers on the real world movement of derailing the fast fashion labor slave train, removing toxic, cancer causing fabrics from our supply chain and reducing the landfill nightmares being caused by the cheap disposable fast fashion trends that currently have the industry falling apart at the seams.
Gina’s disruptive solutions offer bespoke, ethical and sustainable production strategies designed to choke the fast fashion industry to its death.
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