Meet the Makers: The People Behind Every Dress

When you buy an Orangeba dress, you're buying from people. Not a brand. People who sew, who design, who cut fabric with precision, who spend hours getting a seam right.

Most fashion brands never introduce you to the makers. We think you should know them.

Meet Lia

Lia has been a pattern maker for 18 years. She works at a factory in Ho Chi Minh City where we source deadstock. She's the person who takes our designs and translates them into cutting patterns—the blueprint that tells cutters exactly where to cut.

It's intricate work. Get it wrong by 5mm and the whole piece fails. She's been doing it perfectly for nearly two decades.

Meet Tun

Tun sews seams. Not just any seams—the kind that hold for years. He works on quality control, checking every piece before it ships. He's caught mistakes, saved entire batches from falling apart, and made sure that when you buy Orangeba, you're buying something that lasts.

He doesn't see himself as factory labour. He sees himself as a custodian of quality.

Why we credit them

Fashion hides the people who make it. We don't. The makers are the reason your clothes don't fall apart. The reason a deadstock dress becomes something you'll keep for years.

They deserve to be credited. And so do you—for buying pieces that respect their work.

Every Orangeba piece carries the hands and precision of craftspeople who care. That's not marketing. That's fact.