Year2026
ScopeBrand Voice, Styleguide, Tone of Voice System
IndustryWomenswear Retail

Where the brand system landed.

The Viva Fashion identity carried from the styleguide onto the pieces a customer actually holds: the swing tag, the garment label, the embroidered monogram, and the bag it all leaves the store in.

Viva Fashion boutique storefront window with mannequins and a red backlit logo panel
Storefront
Black Viva Fashion handbag with gold V hardware, sunglasses and lipstick beside it
Accessories
Viva Fashion V monogram being embroidered in red thread onto cream fabric
Embroidery
Viva Fashion garment label stitched into a patterned jacket, size M
Garment Label
Hand carrying a white Viva Fashion shopping bag with the red V monogram
Shopping Bag
Viva Fashion swing tag on a knit sweater, red script logo on cream card stock
Swing Tag

The unboxing, considered.

A shopping bag and mailer box carrying the brand's floral motif and a warm parting line, Hola Beautiful!, printed straight onto the packaging a customer takes home.

Viva Fashion shopping bag design with a red floral graphic and the Viva Fashion logo
Shopping Bag

The floral graphic carried onto the bag customers leave the store with.

Viva Fashion mailer box with a red floral pattern, logo, and Hola Beautiful printed on the front edge
Mailer Box

The same pattern on the shipping box, with Hola Beautiful! as the parting line.

Colour, straight from the brandbook.

Six named tones documented in the 2026 styleguide, from Viva Carmine through to True White.

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Viva Carmine
A bold, confident red speaking to the passionate heart of the brand. Dramatic flair without shouting.
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Crushed Petal
A deeply romantic, muted rouge capturing the feeling of vintage florals.
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Coral Blush
Fresh, spirited, and full of life. Radiates the sheer joy of dressing up.
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Champaign Drape
An effortless neutral that shines with understated luxury and a celebratory sparkle.
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Ivory Lace
Soft and delicate, a calm highlight that lifts the mood with airiness and light.
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True White
Crisp and clean. The canvas for the collection, ensuring every outfit feels fresh and balanced.

The typefaces documented in the brandbook.

Headings
Costa Std

The spirited voice of Viva Fashion. Curved, sculptural letterforms used for primary headings and key brand statements.

Body
Hauora

Calm and modern, keeping longer content comfortable to read while the heading type shines.

On this page, Fraunces stands in for Costa Std and Space Grotesk for Hauora, keeping the portfolio's own type system consistent across every case study.

Straight from the guidelines document.

Three spreads pulled directly from Viva Fashion's brand styleguide, the source for every colour and font named on this page.

Viva Fashion styleguide cover, floral dress editorial photo, Styleguide 2026
Cover

The guideline's cover: a floral-print editorial photo, Viva Fashion, Styleguide 2026.

Viva Fashion documented colour palette page
Colour Palette

The documented palette, Viva Carmine through True White, with usage notes for each tone.

Viva Fashion typography page showing Costa Std and Hauora
Typography

The typography page: Costa Std for headings, Hauora for body, shown at full type scale.

From deck to checkout.

This identity was carried through into a full Shopify rebuild: mobile-first product and collection pages, a migrated catalogue of 186 products, Klaviyo email flows, and foundational SEO. The brand system wasn't just a deck. It became the actual customer experience, from the first scroll to checkout.

When the client's own product photos weren't good enough to launch on.

Rather than schedule a reshoot, AI-generated imagery closed the gap: three consistent angles per product, generated and quality-checked at full catalogue scale. Shown here is a curated selection from the full set.

140Products
420Images Generated
3Angles Each
Clothing
AI-generated product photography: olive tank top with a cream tailored blazer and trousers
Tailored Blazer Set
AI-generated product photography: black sleeveless top with wide trousers and a gold buckle belt
Belted Trouser Set
AI-generated product photography: light pinstripe blazer and matching trousers
Pinstripe Suit
AI-generated product photography: floral kimono duster layered over a white top and trousers
Floral Kimono Duster
AI-generated product photography: lavender tailored vest and matching wide-leg trousers
Lavender Vest Suit
AI-generated product photography: cream cable-knit one-shoulder top with wide-leg denim jeans
Cable-Knit & Denim
AI-generated product photography: pink floral wrap maxi dress with a front slit
Pink Floral Wrap Dress
AI-generated product photography: white sleeveless linen vest and trousers
Linen Vest Set
AI-generated product photography: pink and orange striped ribbed-knit maxi dress
Striped Knit Dress
AI-generated product photography: cream long-sleeve knit dress with a fringe hem
Fringe-Hem Knit Dress
Jewellery
AI-generated product photography: red drop earrings, worn with a white blazer
Red Drop Earrings
AI-generated product photography: gold coin drop earrings
Gold Coin Earrings
AI-generated product photography: layered green and gold beaded necklace with matching earrings
Layered Necklace & Earrings
AI-generated product photography: beaded pearl necklace worn with a black square-neck top
Beaded Pearl Necklace
AI-generated product photography: wooden bead necklace worn with a light blue blazer
Wooden Bead Necklace

A positioning problem, not a facelift.

Brief

The product wasn't the problem.

A vibrant style guide for a European womenswear retailer, built to feel like a trusted friend with great taste, not a catalogue. The brand around the product looked generic and didn't signal the quality shoppers were actually receiving.

Strategy

A special find, not a discount.

The audience: women 30 to 65, not fast-fashion shoppers, who want a purchase to feel like a find rather than a discount. That reframed the brief, and even shaped merchandising decisions like bundling, because that feeling is the brand's emotional core.

Creative Direction

Warm, never salesy.

Viva Carmine and Coral Blush carry the warmth, Costa Std brings expressive headlines, and photography leans on lush nature and sun-drenched light, warmer than the clinical product shots typical of this price bracket.

"Style that breathes. Polished without the pressure."
Function Driven Language, Viva Fashion Styleguide

Viva Fashion needed one thing more than anything else: for the brand to feel as good as the clothes.

Starting from positioning and audience insight instead of screens meant every downstream decision, palette, tone, even how discounts were framed, spoke with the same voice. That's the work of a brand strategist, not just a designer.