The Minissimi new collection is Melissa: two styles developed in-house as a working brief for European brands. We are an ODM in Guangzhou (Huadu). Minimum MOQ starts from 100 pieces, and the spec sheets below are published in full, with material codes, colours and hardware, because the line is meant to be adopted, not admired.
This announcement is written the way a development brief is written. Each style carries its material code, its colour number and its construction notes, so a buying team can judge feasibility before the first conversation. No trend assertions, no mood-board language; the line stands on what it is made of and how it is made.
Why publish a collection as a specification
Most new-collection content shows a look and stops there. A buying team cannot evaluate a look. It can evaluate a body, a material code, a hardware finish, an edge-paint colour, because those are the variables that determine sampling cost, lead time and repeatability.
Melissa is published as a specification for a second reason. The Italian technical language on the spec sheets is not decoration. It is the working vocabulary of European material houses and pattern rooms. It is also the language our design office uses internally. When a brand in Milan or Paris sends a tech pack, we read it in that language. Maria, our chief designer, brings Italian aesthetic references into development. So the conversation starts from a shared vocabulary rather than a translation layer.
The material direction behind the line
Melissa sits on three material research tracks: regeneration of production waste, low-carbon colouration, and bio-based development. These are development directions. The line does not carry third-party certification marks, and this article will not attach recycled-content percentages to materials that have not been independently verified. What the collection does carry is a working material system, expressed in codes that a factory can hold across sampling and bulk.
That framing matters in B2B. A sustainability claim you cannot evidence is a liability in the EU market; a development direction you can document is a working asset. We publish the direction, we keep the codes, and we let the audit trail come from the production process itself.
MS-868: the crescent shoulder bag
MS-868 is a crescent shoulder bag with a clean, architectural line. The body is made in Suborn T569, colour 815, a tactile woven material with a warm camel tone that reads as a warm neutral. The side panels are cut in Auchan K982, colour 9098, which gives the silhouette its contrast and structure.
The defining detail is the strap. The long shoulder strap is made in a glossy black lizard-embossed leather, K887, colour 4001, and it connects to the body through large oval links in Light Gold hardware. The two-tone construction, camel body against black lizard strap, is held together by the hardware story: the Light Gold is repeated in the TPU logo, finished to match the metal, and in the edge-painting discipline that runs through the factory.
Construction notes, kept in the language of the original spec sheet:
- Materiale principale: Suborn T569, colore 815
- Ai lati: Auchan K982, colore 9098
- Manico: Nero in Lizard Lucido, K887, colore 4001
- Accessori: Light Gold
- TPU logo in Light Gold, same finish as hardware
- Lining: beige. Painting (edge paint): black
- Inner logo: MINISSIMI, embossed
The bag ties the line’s material logic together: the woven body carries the tactile story, the lizard strap carries the contrast, and the black edge paint ties both to the black hardware accents.
MS-911: the twisted-handle hobo
MS-911 takes the same material system into a different silhouette: a hobo-shaped crescent with a deeper scoop and a stronger handle presence. The main body is Suborn T569 in black, colour 401, so the bag reads as a dark statement piece rather than a neutral.
The handle is where MS-911 separates itself. It is a thick, twisted rope handle cut in Auchan K982, colour 4168F, an antique bronze grey whose subtle metallic sheen catches light differently from every angle. The handle hardware, two interlocking gold rings on each side, is the mechanical and visual pivot of the bag. Three elements carry the same finish story: the Light Gold rings, the metallic-grey rope and the black lizard side panels. The restraint of that palette is what holds the silhouette together. The lizard treatment is cut from the same K887, colour 4001, that MS-868 uses on its strap, so the collection keeps one material grammar across both styles.
Spec sheet, in the original language:
- Materiale principale: Suborn T569, colore 401
- Per il manico: Auchan K982, colore 4168F
- Ai lati: Nero in Lizard Lucido, K887, colore 4001
- Accessori: Light Gold
- TPU logo in Light Gold, same finish as hardware
- Lining: black. Painting (edge paint): black
- Inner logo: MINISSIMI, embossed
The difference between the two styles is deliberate. MS-868 is the day bag that carries the collection’s neutral story; MS-911 is the evening-adjacent piece that carries its material experimentation. Same material grammar, two distinct commercial positions.
What the material codes mean for a buying team
The codes on these sheets are not internal jargon. They are the same codes that appear on our material purchase orders, our batch records and our sample tags, which is what makes the collection adoptable:
Traceability. Every bag in a production run can be traced to its material batch by code. A brand that carries Melissa under its own label, or adapts it through light customisation, inherits that traceability from the first sample.
Repeatability. Suborn T569, Auchan K982 and K887 are established material systems with stable supply. A material that cannot be re-ordered consistently across two seasons has no place in a collection brief; these codes are ordered against batch records, not against memory.
Cost structure. Because the bills of materials are fixed, the cost structure is known before sampling starts. A brand evaluating Melissa knows what it is evaluating.
How a brand adopts the line
Adoption runs through the same process we use for any custom development, and it is documented end to end in our sampling to bulk production guide. In practical terms the sequence is: request the development window, receive the pattern and first sample against the locked spec, approve the sample, and hold production to it. Our development team leads the sampling rounds against the agreed specification, the approval milestone closes each round by a fixed date in the calendar, and the gold sample is the acceptance reference against which every bulk unit is measured.
The line is also open to light customisation. Hardware finish, lining colour and embossing can be adjusted without disturbing the material system, which keeps the development cost proportionate for a first order. For the wider picture of how an ODM relationship works, our guide to ODM capabilities, MOQ and process covers the full picture, and the complete range sits on the full Melissa collection page.
Open the Melissa collection deck for both styles and their full spec sheets.
If Melissa fits your development planning, the direct step is a development conversation. Ask for the development window, the spec sheets and the sample schedule, and we will treat the request the way we treat a tech pack: as a specification to be answered with a specification.
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