In the world of luxury ready-to-wear and haute couture, every piece requires special care, including during transport. Delicate fabrics, structured silhouettes and intricate embellishments make preserving garments throughout their journey a significant logistics challenge.
To meet these requirements, hanging garment transport offers a particularly suitable solution, helping to minimise handling and preserve the presentation of collections from the atelier to their final destination.
Unlike conventional shipping in boxes, hanging garment transport, also known as Garments on Hangers (GOH) transport, allows clothing to travel suspended, without the need for folding.
This method is particularly suited to pieces whose shape and presentation must be preserved: suits, tailored jackets, coats, evening dresses and haute couture creations.
It offers several advantages:
For luxury fashion houses, these precautions help preserve the quality of their creations and reduce the need for steaming, pressing or other remedial work at the destination.
Transporting hanging garments requires specialist equipment designed to keep them securely in place throughout the journey.
Depending on the shipment’s requirements, several solutions can be used:
The choice of packaging depends on the fabric, size and fragility of the pieces, as well as delivery requirements.
The objective remains the same: to provide transport suited to the specific characteristics of each collection.
In an industry where deadlines are closely tied to production schedules and events, transport flexibility is essential.
Dedicated transport provides a vehicle exclusively for a single shipment, with the route and schedule planned around the client’s needs.
This solution offers several advantages for luxury fashion houses:
It is particularly suited to prototypes, complete collections and one-of-a-kind pieces, where control over delivery times and transport conditions is essential.
Between design ateliers, manufacturing partners, showrooms and fashion show venues, fashion houses manage a constant flow of goods.
Collections travel throughout the year, particularly between France and Italy, two major players in the luxury industry.
Alongside these regular exchanges, additional transport needs arise around Fashion Weeks, photo shoots, press presentations and international events.
In this context, responsive and carefully coordinated logistics are essential to meet deadlines while protecting the pieces being transported.
For many years, WES has supported luxury ready-to-wear and haute couture houses in organising their transport throughout France and internationally.
Our teams offer bespoke solutions for hanging garments, prototypes, collections and accessories, with packaging adapted to the nature of the goods.
A partner to Paris Fashion Weeks since 2014, WES also supports the logistics of fashion shows, showrooms, photo shoots and international events.
Throughout the year, our dedicated transport services from France to Italy and from Italy to France connect fashion houses’ ateliers with their manufacturing partners.
Our teams can also carry out packing and unpacking directly on site, according to the requirements of each assignment.
This expertise allows us to support fashion professionals at every stage of their logistics operations, with particular attention to security, deadlines and the protection of their goods.
From hanging garment transport and prototype deliveries to fashion show logistics, every assignment requires a solution tailored to the fashion house’s requirements and the characteristics of its pieces.
Contact the WES team to organise transport for your luxury ready-to-wear and haute couture collections, throughout France and internationally.
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