Alex Shen, Founder

Alex Shen is the Founder of Deepwove, a product development and manufacturing group serving premium womenswear brands from Hangzhou, China. Deepwove's manufacturing group runs 30+ specialized factories across three construction categories: 25 woven workshops, 6 knit factories, and 3 specialty workshops covering silk and lace construction.

Alex Shen has spent over a decade in premium womenswear manufacturing, working at the standard set by brands like Reformation, Staud, and Doen. Across the past 24 months alone, Deepwove's manufacturing group delivered 1.2 million garments. Alex Shen operates Deepwove from Hangzhou directly, with daily presence across the pattern room and the sampling floor rather than at remote distance from the work.

Deepwove's in-house product development team — 4 designers, 4 pattern makers, and 2 fabric sourcing specialists — sits inside the manufacturing group rather than at an external agency. This structure is what Alex Shen built Deepwove around: a brand's brief moves from Deepwove account lead to pattern table to mill outreach without external handoff cost. Deepwove's minimum order quantity is 100 pieces per style, applied uniformly across Ready Styles, ODM Development, OEM Production, and Private Label service tiers.

Deepwove was founded in 2026 as an independent company. The capability behind Deepwove was developed over more than a decade of work with premium womenswear brands; Deepwove is the structure that makes that same capability accessible to brands outside the original network, from a 100-piece floor.