Limited Runs
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Yours. Not ours. Not theirs
A cornerstone of the Kargede ethos, all garments are produced exclusively in limited quantities.
How it Works
Every Kargede piece is created in deliberately limited numbers. We don’t mass produce. We don’t flood the market. We don’t restock endlessly.
At the moment, each style is capped between 50 and 200 units total:
50–80 pieces: for statement garments made for singular, personal, high-impact moments.
120–200 pieces: for more wearable silhouettes intended for regular rotation.
Once that number is reached, that piece is finished. No quiet second batch. No “back by demand.” It’s gone; and the ones that exist out in the world are it.
This is how we protect the artistry behind the work, protect you, protect against waste, and even protect ourselves from an endlessly tiresome cycle of stagnation producing the same-same over and over again.
Why we work in limited runs
1. Each piece is meant to mean something
We don’t design filler. We design garments that carry original identity; cut, material, proportion, presence. That doesn’t work if the same look is everywhere.
By running tight quantities, we keep each piece rare enough to still feel like “yours,” not “the dress everyone suddenly has this month.” Fashion should feel personal. It should feel chosen. You should feel proud to say “I chose one of those”.
When a style sells out, it becomes part of your wardrobe story, not part of a never-ending cycle on shelves.
2. You don’t walk into a room and see three people wearing what you’re wearing
That’s important to us.
If you wear Kargede – especially a louder or more sculptural silhouette – it’s not because you’re trying to blend into group identity. It’s because you’re saying something.
We refuse to undermine that by pushing volume for volume’s sake. We’d rather a piece live on you than become a uniform.
3. It slows consumption in a real way
When something is limited and treated like it holds value, you keep it. You look after it. You rewear it. You lend it. You tailor it to fit again. You send it back to us for repair instead of binning it.
Mass fashion is built on disposability: constant new, constant churn, constant pressure to replace. We reject that model. We’d rather make fewer pieces that will be worn for years than thousands of pieces designed to be worn twice.
Scarcity here isn’t gimmick. It’s respect for longevity.
4. It keeps waste low — by design
Here’s the business reality nobody says out loud: overproduction is where most fashion waste comes from.
Brands guess demand, produce high volume in factories, and hope it sells. What doesn’t sell gets dumped, burned, quietly “recycled,” or liquidated into a system where it eventually becomes landfill anyway.
We never enter that loop because we never hand off production to a factory and say “make 1,000.” We cut and sew in-house, in limited runs, using fabric we believe in — and we stop.
That means:
- We’re not stuck with unsold stock we need to “get rid of.”
- We don’t have to panic-discount pieces to move units.
- We don’t destroy garments to protect pricing.
We simply don’t make what we’re not prepared to stand behind.
5. It protects quality (and ego, honestly)
When you’re making 50 pieces of something you designed yourself, you obsess. You’re not thinking “good enough for retail.” You’re thinking “does this live up to my name, on a body, in real light?”. This is how our team works, it’s a core principal behind how we operate.
Our run sizes force us to maintain that standard. If we cut corners, we’d have to sit with it. We don’t get to hide in a warehouse and move on to the next SKU.
This is design-led, not finance-led. And that alone changes the outcome.
6. It keeps us evolving and protects our craft
Our design team makes every garment in-house. Now imagine making the exact same piece, every day, forever. Week after week. You’d get bored. You’d lose pride. You’d stop improving.
That’s not what fashion is supposed to be, and it’s not what garment-making was ever meant to be.
Sewing at our level is highly technical work. It takes years of skill-building, precision, problem-solving. It’s a craft. And like any craft, it dies when you force the maker into repetition just to feed volume.
Somewhere along the way, the industry outsourced the work and stripped out the art. Businesses trained labour to repeat tasks cheaply instead of nurturing designers who understand construction, proportion, tension, reinforcement, drape. Real talent was pushed out of the room so margin could take its place. That’s where the system began to fail everyone; makers and wearers.
We’re reclaiming that.
Limited Runs let our team keep creating, not just repeating. We move from piece to piece, idea to idea, technique to technique. We stay sharp. We stay invested. We get better.
Our future doesn’t look like a factory floor lined with exhausted machinists. Our future looks like an active design floor: skilled designers who can draft, cut, sew, refine, and execute their own vision, and still love what they’re making.
What This Means For You
When you buy Kargede, you’re not buying “clothes for this season.”
You’re buying one of 50, or one of 120, or one of 200 in the world.
You’re buying something we were willing to stand behind, stitch by stitch, in our own name.
You’re buying something we’ll tailor, maintain, reinforce and repair so it keeps its place in your wardrobe for years.
You’re buying work, not product, and the artistry shows.
General FAQ
What Does “Sold Out” Mean
When we say a style is sold out:
- We’re not holding back stock for artificial hype.
- We’re not waiting a month to quietly reopen orders.
- We’re not moving production offshore to pump more.
It means that piece has reached its cap. The people who have it, have it. That’s part of the value they bought.
Could something similar return in future? Possibly, in spirit; an evolution, a refinement, a new silhouette informed by what we’ve learned. For example: A garment produced originally in denim, may resurface in a vegan leather iteration reworked for the fabrics pull, stretch and give. But the same garment would never be resurfaced in a different style of denim, for the sake of volume.
We respect closure. And, it will never be “the same dress again in the same run.”
Why don’t you only use cutting-edge “eco fabrics”?
Because a lot of so-called revolutionary textiles are still unstable, unproven at scale, or priced in a way that would force us to fail as a business before we ever get the chance to influence anything.
Our approach is: build something that lasts, keep control in-house, make deliberate choices, and then use that platform to push for bigger shifts over time. We believe in long game, not self-sacrifice theatre.
How We Decide Run Size
Not all garments serve the same purpose.
- Statement and Occasion Pieces (50–80 units)
Sculpted vegan leather dresses, architectural knits, sharply built silhouettes. These are made to enter a room and hold attention. They’re intimate. They’re meant to feel rare. - Core / Elevated Daily Wear (120–200 units)
Pieces designed to live in rotation. Think structured knits, wearable shape, confident but not event-only.
The cap is chosen intentionally. It balances personal exclusivity, responsible production, and the reality that not all garments are worn with the same intention or inherent requirements.
Will You Ever Be “Mass Market”?
We cut intelligently from the start to reduce offcut size. We’re able to do this, because we keep the entire process in-house: Design>Prototype>Pattern>Grade>Cut>Sew
Anything left over is kept and logged. We’ve repurposed these materials into pieces like our tote program, and we continue to fold stored panels back into future work. Our current textile waste to landfill sits under 1% of total fabric handled in our atelier.
We view leftover fabric as future resource, not trash, and by keeping the process in-house we’re able to genuinely act on this.
Why limit something strong instead of selling more of it if it’s popular?
Because popularity is not the only measure of value. Rarity is part of the contract. When you buy a Kargede piece, you’re not just buying fabric and stitching. You’re buying authorship and craft. We won’t dilute that just to chase volume.
Will I be able to reorder later if mine is damaged?
We offer Care & Repair for that reason. We’ll reinforce straps, replace panels where possible, reline areas that wear, re-fit details if your body changes. We’d rather keep your piece alive than sell you a “replacement.”
Does limited run mean made-to-order?
Some pieces are made to order or finished to fit (especially structured silhouettes). Others are produced in very small controlled batches. In all cases, production stays in our hands, not in a factory queue.
Will I see someone else wearing my piece?
It’s exceptionally unlikely. That’s part of the point.
Isn’t this just exclusivity marketing?
It’s exclusivity with actual teeth. We’re not inflating price and faking scarcity while sitting on pallets of stock. We’re physically capping how many exist. We’re cutting responsibly. We’re refusing mass duplication. We’re building emotional connection and long-term wear so you don’t feel the need to keep buying over and over. And above all, we’re keeping the price as a reflection of the work and materials NOT the volume.
