The Fashion Houses & Boutiques in Ho Chi Minh City Issue
ORBISFASHION HOUSES & BOUTIQUES IN HO CHI MINH CITY 7 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Fashion Houses & Boutiques in Ho Chi Minh City
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Canifa carries clothing for adults and children, with wool knitwear and family basics represented in the Vietnamese brand's range. Ginkgo brings Vietnamese clothing and home goods together with prints and accessories, focusing on local brands and culture-led design.
Canifa is a Vietnamese fashion brand operating for more than two decades, selling clothing for men, women, and children. Its knitwear uses Woolmark-certified wool and Oeko-Tex-certified cotton and viscose fabrics.
Best for Family fashion basics — knitwear, wool sweaters
Canifa has spent more than two decades building a national fashion brand in Vietnam, competing directly against international entrants like Zara, Uniqlo, and H&M on home turf. The company's product range covers clothing for men, women, and children, with a particular emphasis on knitwear: wool sweaters made from Woolmark-certified yarn, including Australian merino, alongside acrylic-blend knits and cotton-spandex and viscose basics that carry Oeko-Tex Class 2 safety certification. Sun-protective, anti-UV jackets and waterproof, heat-retaining down jackets round out its outerwear lines. Rather than compete purely on price, Canifa has leaned on in-store technology to differentiate its shopping experience: a DYO (Design Your Own) printing service lets customers print custom designs onto garments in about ten minutes, and a C-LIVE video-call feature connects online shoppers with in-store consultants in real time. The brand's manufacturing traces back to Hoang Duong, a Vietnamese textile and garment company, and Canifa has been recognized in industry innovation awards for the technology built around its retail floor. For shoppers, Canifa functions less as a single-category label and more as an everyday, family-oriented wardrobe brand, positioned as a homegrown alternative to the multinational fast-fashion chains operating in the same malls.
Ginkgo makes clothing with graphics drawn from Vietnamese culture and everyday life, sold through shops in Ho Chi Minh City and elsewhere in Vietnam. Its range includes T-shirts for adults and children alongside shirts and accessories. The brand lists more than one shop on Le Loi Street, so choose the particular branch before setting out.
Best for Vietnam-inspired graphic T-shirts and casual clothing
Ginkgo is a Vietnam-based clothing and accessories label that foregrounds original design and material choice. Its clothing range covers adults and children, moving from T-shirts and polos to shirts and trousers as well as outerwear. Accessories extend the same graphic language into bags and stationery as well as hand fans as well as scarves and caps. Fabric categories provide a second way to understand the label. Organic cotton appears separately from Supima cotton, while linen has its own place in the range. Those distinctions make fibre part of the product identity rather than leaving it buried in care information. Ginkgo's breadth is therefore held together by two consistent ideas: artwork developed for the label and an explicit vocabulary of textiles. A graphic can move from a shirt to a smaller object, but the material changes how each version feels and functions. The business also connects its product pages with a story and creation programme, giving the designs context beyond a catalogue grid. Ginkgo operates as a Vietnamese design label whose apparel and objects share visual authorship. Cotton and linen choices supplying a practical material structure.
⚒ Kids & Toys · Ginkgo describes its own culture-driven designs as made in Vietnam / this is not a blanket origin claim for every stocked designerORBIS register
Saigon-founded concept-store and cafe group launched around 2009 by Thai Nguyen and his wife Tib under the umbrella company L Concepts, pairing a casual restaurant with curated Vietnamese and international fashion and design across several Ho Chi Minh City branches.
Best for Vietnamese and international fashion and design from a Saigon-founded concept store.
L'Usine first appeared in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) around 2009, founded by Thai Nguyen and his wife Tib under the umbrella company L Concepts. Its format pairs a low-key cafe and restaurant with a curated retail section selling clothing, accessories and design objects from Vietnamese and international labels, typically set inside converted industrial-style buildings with exposed brick, floor-to-ceiling windows and warehouse-inspired fittings — a look the company ties to Saigon's industrial and Indochine-era architecture. The business grew from its original location into multiple branches across Ho Chi Minh City, including a flagship at 19 Le Thanh Ton that opened in July 2017. L'Usine describes its mission as curating a sense of discovery around Vietnamese design talent while also carrying international brands, positioning itself as a lifestyle destination rather than a single-category shop.
LIBÉ is a Vietnamese clothing label whose collection focuses on everyday womenswear. Its online range includes denim and dresses, with separates such as halter tops and tailored shorts. In Ho Chi Minh City, its Lý Tự Trọng shop is on the first floor at number 26, distinct from the Nguyễn Trãi branch.
Best for Vietnamese womenswear and everyday separates
This Vietnamese slow-fashion house works in two core materials, mulberry silk and organic cotton, turning both into clothing, scarves, jewelry and home textiles produced locally. Its Dong Khoi Street flagship sits alongside sister stores in Hanoi and Hoi An, Vietnam.
The New Playground opened in March 2017 as a concept mall for Vietnamese local brands, gathering more than fifty labels under one roof. The original site occupies a basement on Ly Tu Trong Street in District 1, with vendor stalls divided by wire mesh and lit in neon. Stock leans to streetwear, with graphic shirts, hoodies, denim alongside hats, bags, jewellery. A second branch trades inside Vincom Center Dong Khoi.
Best for Vietnamese streetwear labels in an underground District 1 concept mall
Ho Chi Minh City atelier founded 2011 by artist-designer Thuy Nguyen, who trained at Hanoi's Vietnam University of Fine Art and holds a PhD from Kyiv's fine-art academy; reworks brocade and silk techniques into contemporary fashion.
Best for Art-led fashion from this independent Vietnamese designer
Thuy Design House was founded in 2011 by Thuy Nguyen, a Vietnamese artist and fashion designer educated at the Vietnam University of Fine Art in Hanoi, who went on to earn a doctorate in fine art from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv, Ukraine. The label's guiding idea is translating traditional Vietnamese textile handicraft - brocade weaving and silk work among them - into contemporary garment design, rather than treating those techniques as purely decorative or archival.
Nguyen's work extends beyond the clothing line itself. She produced and directed the film "The Tailor," which uses the ao dai, Vietnam's traditional dress, as a lens for exploring Vietnamese cultural identity and its collision with modern life. She also founded The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, a space dedicated to contemporary Vietnamese art, which operates alongside her fashion practice rather than as a side project. Thuy Design House's collections have been shown at Vietnam International Fashion Week and worn by figures in Vietnamese entertainment and media, part of a broader push - shared with other Vietnamese designers of her generation - to position Vietnamese craft techniques within international, rather than purely folkloric or tourist-facing, fashion contexts.
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