Vela
A quietly luxurious storefront for a Tokyo-based menswear label.
- Client
- Vela Apparel
- Year
- 2025
- Category
- E-commerce
- Services
- Design, Website Development, SEO
- Link vela.studio
2.1×
Conversion rate
+34%
Average order value
0.8s
Largest Contentful Paint
The brief
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Challenge
Premium price point, premium product, and a digital store that didn't reflect either.
Approach
Custom storefront on Next.js + Shopify, a paced editorial layout, and a checkout we obsessively performance-tuned.
Outcome
Conversion rate up 2.1×. AOV up 34%. Time-on-site doubled.
Let's build
something rare.
We take on a handful of new partnerships each quarter. If you're building something ambitious, we'd love to hear about it.