Rix shirts
Rix and McCloskey have worked for over a year to get their suppliers to produce bigger sizes, a process Rix says is lengthy and difficult – but well worth it. We couldn’t do any more because the supplier wouldn’t do it.' We were only ordering 30 units of a dress and it’s not efficient for the supplier to cut that into 10 different sizes, so when we first started we could only have S, M and L which equated to an 8, 10 and 12. 'When you first start as a small brand, I mean it was just Orlagh and me for the first three years of the company, doing everything. 'It’s about having the capacity and the right team to focus on it,' Rix explains.
We’re always trying to develop the brand.'įor small brands like Rixo, the way the manufacturing process is set up can be frustrating because, in order to make clothes for a broader range of sizes, companies need to invest time and money – both of which are in short supply for a tiny label without financial investors behind them. We’re also working on a petite range but we’re starting with sizing up first. We want as many people as possible to feel amazing when they get dressed and if Rixo can help them do that, that’s our job done. If you love the aesthetic of the brand, or a certain shape, we’re not here to stop people buying it. 'Orlagh and I never want people to feel like they can’t wear Rixo. 'We’re working our way towards size 24, which we wanted to have ready for this collection but the grading of the sizes takes so much time and we want to get it right,' says Rix. At the moment, Rixo caters for sizes 6-16 but the spring/summer collection will, for the first time, go up to a size 20.