What Vivase is
Vivase is a clothing label founded in Calgary, Alberta, headquartered in London, Ontario, and operating out of Mississauga/Toronto. Every collection tells its own story, one that isn't told twice. Once a piece is sold out, it's sold out.
Heavyweight cotton, intentional fitting, and runs kept small on purpose. Design, fulfillment and the storefront itself are all handled in-house, and the brand is still run independently.
The name
Vivase comes from vivace, the Italian musical direction for lively and quick. One letter changed: the c became an s, and the S in our mark is drawn bigger than the rest.
When and where it started
Sketched in 2023. Made real in Calgary in 2024. Shaped in London, Ontario. Run today out of Mississauga and Toronto.
2023
Vivase started as an idea before it was ever a brand. The design work began in 2023: sketches and concepts, with no real infrastructure behind them yet.
2024, Calgary
It became something real in 2024, out of Calgary, Alberta, where the first collection, TO THE SKY, came together with help from designers in Calgary and Winnipeg. Six T-shirts. No marketing machine, no funding, no guarantee anyone outside that circle would care.
London, Ontario
From Calgary, the brand found its footing in London, Ontario. That's where the identity actually took shape, not just the product but the standard: heavyweight cotton, intentional fitting, small runs made on purpose instead of mass-produced and left to sit. London is where Vivase started being something with intent behind every piece.
Today
Vivase now operates out of Mississauga and Toronto, still run independently. Design, fulfillment and the storefront itself are all handled in-house. Every collection tells its own story, and once a piece is gone, it's gone; nothing gets repeated just to chase a sale. The scale has grown since those first six T-shirts, but the reason for making them hasn't changed: clothes that didn't exist, made properly.
Why we started
Nobody's making these pieces. So we did.
We started because the clothes we wanted didn't exist. Not at a price that made sense, and not anywhere close to what we were actually picturing. Others could never match our visionary designs.
Every collection tells its own story through the pieces themselves. Every run stays small on purpose. It's how the quality stays where it should, and how nothing sits in a warehouse gathering dust for a year. Sold out of something? Say the word. Enough of you ask, it comes back remastered, never the same thing twice.
Premium without the premium price tag. That's the whole point, and getting it out to as many people as possible is the goal.
What we use
Heavyweight cotton is our standard. It's the common thread across every Vivase piece, chosen because it holds structure, resists wearing thin, and gets better with age instead of falling apart after a few washes. That's the baseline we won't compromise on, no matter what the piece is.
From there, materials change depending on what the garment actually needs. Velvet brings warmth and texture where comfort matters most. Spandex blends get added where stretch and movement are the priority. The goal isn't variety for its own sake, it's using the right material for the job, with heavyweight cotton as the standard everything else gets built around.
At a glance
- The name
- From vivace, the Italian musical direction for lively.
- First sketches
- 2023
- First collection
- TO THE SKY, 2024. Six T-shirts.
- Founded in
- Calgary, Alberta
- Headquarters
- London, Ontario
- Operating out of
- Mississauga and Toronto
- Made
- In small runs. Once a piece is sold out, it's sold out.
- Fabric
- Heavyweight cotton, with velvet and spandex blends where a piece needs them.
- Run
- Independently. Design, fulfillment and the storefront are all in-house.
Ten years from now, someone's going to ask where they got that piece. We're betting it's ours. Not because we got lucky, because we knew exactly what we were doing.
Questions about a piece, a size or an order?
help@vivase.shop