Luxury Fashion Secrets: Brands Sharing Chanel's Supply Chain

Chanel doesn't want you to know about these brands because they are sourcing from the exact same supply chain as the big luxury houses.

Chanel doesn't want you to know about these brands because they are sourcing from the exact same supply chain as the big luxury houses. I'm your favorite intentional bitch on Living Rich. And this is my series on brands quietly built inside luxury's own supply chain across clothing, shoes and handbags. For clothing, we have Me and M, the British brand founded by an ad executive who cut out the middleman and put the markup back into the fabric. Their heritage jackets are woven by linton tweeds, a 100-year-old English mill that has supplied Chanel since Coco's era. And it was not off the Shel opened its archive to the design team and wove a bespoke tweed that exists nowhere else. The heroes are the heritage jackets in Linton Tweed and the famously flattering tailoring. And for shoes, we have NIA's, founded by a former Harper's Bazaar accessories editor. Their shoes are handmade in an Italian factory that for decades produced exclusively for Ferragamo. So the same hands that stitch the shoes from one of the most iconic heritage houses now stitch these sculptural works of art instead. And that's what no one tells you, because the luxury houses don't actually own the craftsmanship, the fact factories do. They're best known for their simple but impactful strappy sandals. And for handbags, we have Savette. The founder, Amy Zurich designed bags for the row and created Kate's signature luggage before starting her own house. Her bags are handmade outside of Florence in Santa Croce, same tanning district that supplies leather to all of the heritage houses in a factory run by a family of third generation artisans. And she won't name which heritage houses her artisans have produced for. And honestly, that's probably the tell. In this industry, the factories that matter sign NDAs. The heroes are the tondo and the symmetry pochette worn by the likes of Zoe Kravitz and Sofia Richie.