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For: Business owners launching a clothing brand from scratch who want a brand identity that works on the shelf and on social media.
A Clothing Brand from Scratch: From Naming to Garment Label in a Single Project
Naming, brand platform, and visual identity for MOV — a mid-segment capsule clothing brand. The project launched across 5 stores.
Project Fact Sheet
Clothing brand
Scale: 5 stores, women’s and men’s lines, capsule collections
- ChallengeLaunch a new clothing brand from scratch: name, positioning, visual system for all touchpoints
- SolutionaAudience research + brand platform + naming + brand identity + 40-page brand book. Scope: logo in 3 versions, palette, gradients, typography, signature line, price tags, garment labels, packaging (2 types), gift certificate, shopping centre and city advertising, social media design.
- ResultBrand identity implemented across all 5 stores.
Timeline: 60 days
Key highlight:
A single visual system serves two sub-brands — 'Studio' for customers and 'Selected Trends' for partners and media.
Results
- Brand identity implemented
- System adapted for 12+ assets — from garment label to billboard
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In this project, the team built a clothing brand from scratch. Not adapting someone else’s style, not refreshing an old logo — but inventing the name, building the strategy, and delivering the visual system all the way down to the garment label. Useful for those launching their own brand in the fashion segment who want to understand what a project 'from idea to shelf' consists of.
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In this project, the team built a clothing brand from scratch. Not adapting someone else’s style, not refreshing an old logo — but inventing the name, building the strategy, and delivering the visual system all the way down to the garment label. Useful for those launching their own brand in the fashion segment who want to understand what a project 'from idea to shelf' consists of.
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The Challenge: A New Brand for a Market Where Looks Decide Everything
Research: Who Buys and What They Expect from a Mid-Segment Brand
Strategy: Conscious Consumption as Positioning
Naming: Why MOV Instead of Something Familiar
System: Logo, Palette, Gradients, Font, Signature Line
Assets: From Garment Label to Billboard
Conclusions
Research: Who Buys and What They Expect from a Mid-Segment Brand
Strategy: Conscious Consumption as Positioning
Naming: Why MOV Instead of Something Familiar
System: Logo, Palette, Gradients, Font, Signature Line
Assets: From Garment Label to Billboard
Conclusions
The Challenge: A New Brand for a Market Where Looks Decide Everything
The client was launching a clothing store chain. The stores are located in large shopping centres, competition is fierce: Zara, Mango, dozens of Russian brands with similar price points. The client had a product: quality fabrics, capsule collections, a focus on trends that don’t become obsolete after one season. What they didn’t have was a brand. No name, no logo, no unified visual language.
For a chain of 5 stores, this is critical. Each location competes for the attention of landlords, for a spot in the shopping centre, for the customer’s gaze on the floor. Without a coherent brand, the store blends in with dozens of similar shopfronts.
We needed to create everything:
For a chain of 5 stores, this is critical. Each location competes for the attention of landlords, for a spot in the shopping centre, for the customer’s gaze on the floor. Without a coherent brand, the store blends in with dozens of similar shopfronts.
We needed to create everything:
- A name that would be remembered
- Positioning that would differentiate from mass-market retailers and explain how this store is different from the one next door
- A visual system that would work equally well on a 35×20mm garment label and on a city centre billboard
- A brand book so that staff across five stores could use the style consistently, without improvisation
Research: Who Buys and What They Expect from Clothing
The project team conducted audience research before development.
Core audience: young women aged 18−30 in cities with populations over 500,000. They buy a new item on average once a month, with an income from 40,000 roubles. They know basic clothing combinations, follow bloggers, but avoid flashy looks. For them, clothing is a way to gain approval and feel confident. They choose proven trends and are wary of eccentric outfits.
Secondary group: women aged 30−45 in long-term relationships, often mothers of children under 10. They buy less frequently (once every 2−3 months) but more thoroughly: they assess an item’s potential, check how it combines with what they already have in their wardrobe. For them, it’s important to maintain femininity by putting together a stylish look for every time they leave the house.
Key finding: both groups are looking not just for clothing, but for ready-made solutions. They need a store where they don’t have to sift through hundreds of racks. Where every item has already been selected, its fabric quality checked, and it coordinates with other pieces in the collection. Customers want to save time, not money.
This became the foundation of the positioning: a clothing brand that thinks for the customer.
Core audience: young women aged 18−30 in cities with populations over 500,000. They buy a new item on average once a month, with an income from 40,000 roubles. They know basic clothing combinations, follow bloggers, but avoid flashy looks. For them, clothing is a way to gain approval and feel confident. They choose proven trends and are wary of eccentric outfits.
Secondary group: women aged 30−45 in long-term relationships, often mothers of children under 10. They buy less frequently (once every 2−3 months) but more thoroughly: they assess an item’s potential, check how it combines with what they already have in their wardrobe. For them, it’s important to maintain femininity by putting together a stylish look for every time they leave the house.
Key finding: both groups are looking not just for clothing, but for ready-made solutions. They need a store where they don’t have to sift through hundreds of racks. Where every item has already been selected, its fabric quality checked, and it coordinates with other pieces in the collection. Customers want to save time, not money.
This became the foundation of the positioning: a clothing brand that thinks for the customer.
Strategic Platform: A Space for Finding Your Own Style
The brand positioning was captured in the formula: a fashionable space that helps a person find their own vision of style. Not a clothing store, but a place where the customer meets themselves. Self-care through comfortable, high-quality, stylish everyday clothing. A person who loves themselves is beautiful not only on holidays but every time they leave the house.
From this emerged the key phrase: 'Towards your own beauty' - not a command, but an invitation.
Brand character was defined by eight traits: kind, responsible, caring, curious, brave, ambitious, a good listener, energetic.
Communication tone: engaged, respectful, informal. The brand speaks as a company, addresses customers formally, explains things in simple language, and always does so with enthusiasm.
Brand DNA was distilled into six words: comfort, relevance, quality, elegance, individuality, style.
Values: aesthetics, confidence, emotional connection with the customer, individuality and self-expression, comfortable shopping, mutually beneficial relationships.
From this emerged the key phrase: 'Towards your own beauty' - not a command, but an invitation.
Brand character was defined by eight traits: kind, responsible, caring, curious, brave, ambitious, a good listener, energetic.
Communication tone: engaged, respectful, informal. The brand speaks as a company, addresses customers formally, explains things in simple language, and always does so with enthusiasm.
Brand DNA was distilled into six words: comfort, relevance, quality, elegance, individuality, style.
Values: aesthetics, confidence, emotional connection with the customer, individuality and self-expression, comfortable shopping, mutually beneficial relationships.
Naming: Why MOV
MOV is a neologism inspired by the shade of purple known as 'mauve'. The three letters expand into the tagline: 'My Own Vision' (in Russian: 'moyo osoboye videnye').
The name works on two levels. Phonetically: short, soft, memorable from the first time, easy to pronounce in both Russian and English.
The principle embedded in the name: the brand does not dictate how to dress. It helps you find your own. In a world where there are many opinions and it’s difficult to hear your own voice, having your own vision means being individual, noticeable, and having character.
The tagline became the basis for the brand’s second role: 'Selected Trends'. Every item in the store passes through a triple filter: quality fabric, current cut, long-lasting trend. If even one criterion is not met, the item does not reach the rack. MOV does not sell what will be impossible to wear next season.
The name works on two levels. Phonetically: short, soft, memorable from the first time, easy to pronounce in both Russian and English.
The principle embedded in the name: the brand does not dictate how to dress. It helps you find your own. In a world where there are many opinions and it’s difficult to hear your own voice, having your own vision means being individual, noticeable, and having character.
The tagline became the basis for the brand’s second role: 'Selected Trends'. Every item in the store passes through a triple filter: quality fabric, current cut, long-lasting trend. If even one criterion is not met, the item does not reach the rack. MOV does not sell what will be impossible to wear next season.
System: Logo, Palette, Font, and Signature Linea
The clothing brand’s visual identity was built on three principles: conciseness, strictness, and softness achieved through colour.
Logo
The logo consists of three capital letters with a distinctive line above the letter 'O'. The line is a signature brand element — a metaphor for dialogue between the brand and the customer. It appears in the logo where an umlaut or macron might typically go, but here it is not a diacritic; it is a graphic mark.
Three logo versions solve specific tasks:
The logo consists of three capital letters with a distinctive line above the letter 'O'. The line is a signature brand element — a metaphor for dialogue between the brand and the customer. It appears in the logo where an umlaut or macron might typically go, but here it is not a diacritic; it is a graphic mark.
Three logo versions solve specific tasks:
- Primary (MOV): works everywhere
- Retail version: appears in customer communications and social media
- Partner version: used in media and presentations
Palette
The palette is deliberately assembled from muted shades: on a shelf full of bright competitors, calm packaging stands out through contrast.
The palette is deliberately assembled from muted shades: on a shelf full of bright competitors, calm packaging stands out through contrast.
Gradients
Gradients are created diagonally from two brand colours. Beyond their decorative function, gradients solve a specific problem: differentiating the men’s and women’s lines without splitting the packaging into two separate sets — one system of materials, two perceptions.
Gradients are created diagonally from two brand colours. Beyond their decorative function, gradients solve a specific problem: differentiating the men’s and women’s lines without splitting the packaging into two separate sets — one system of materials, two perceptions.
Typography
The font choice supports the brand’s character: geometric, clean, without decoration.
The font choice supports the brand’s character: geometric, clean, without decoration.
Signature Line
The horizontal line — a metaphor for dialogue. Positioned to the left of the text or on both sides. Rule: one line per layout, no more. The line may be omitted entirely. Thickness is fixed relative to the logo.
The horizontal line — a metaphor for dialogue. Positioned to the left of the text or on both sides. Rule: one line per layout, no more. The line may be omitted entirely. Thickness is fixed relative to the logo.
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Assets: From Garment Label to Billboard
The project included 12 types of assets. All are documented in the brand book with exact dimensions, colour specifications, and links to source files.
- In-store:
Two-part price tags
Garment labels
A4 table tent at the checkout
- Packaging:
Limited-edition paper bags with gradient
Universal plastic bags in five variations
Gift certificates with card, envelope, and plastic card
- Advertising:
Layouts for digital screens in shopping centres
Billboards for city advertising
- Social media:
Three post format templates, story format templates, clean, restrained design with an emphasis on white space around photographic content.
Conclusions
Creating the MOV clothing brand took 60 days from the first briefing to the delivery of the brand book. During this time, the SICHKAR GROUP team covered the entire journey from
audience research to ready-to-use layouts for 12 assets. The brand identity has been implemented across five stores.
audience research to ready-to-use layouts for 12 assets. The brand identity has been implemented across five stores.
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Q&A
In the MOV project, the brand book included: brand platform (positioning, character, values, audience, tone of voice), logo with versions and usage rules, palette, gradients, typography, signature line, and asset layouts with exact dimensions and links to source files.
Three signals: customers don’t recognise you on social media or on the shelf; shopping centre landlords don’t perceive you as a serious tenant; staff at different locations use the brand style inconsistently, and the brand 'drifts'.
Project Team
- MOVClient
- Ekaterina SichkarFounder, Creative Agency SICHKAR GROUP
- Yana BelousovaCreative & Strategy Director
- Viktoria LymarHead of Branding & Design
- Vladislav SkorobogatovSenior Designer
- Anna StefkinaSenior Designer
- Katya GruzdevaDesigner
- Daria StebloCreator
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