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Fashion E-commerce · Storefront · Order API

A digital flagship for a growing fashion house

A Tanzanian fashion storefront connecting ready-to-wear and pre-order shopping with collection-led discovery and the story behind the house.

gazelle-rtw.store
Industry
Fashion · E-commerce
Year
2026
Gazelle Couture - A digital flagship for a growing fashion house

What it supports

Fashion storefront

Browse products with TZS pricing, sizes and availability details.

Collections and curated edits

Organize products around seasonal drops, bridal collections and occasions.

Ready-to-wear and pre-orders

Represent in-stock, pre-order and sold-out pieces with clear next steps.

API-backed checkout

Record orders and hand shoppers to hosted payment when it is available.

Brand and collection storytelling

Give the house, its founder, press and fashion presentations a place alongside the shop.

The challenge

Gazelle grew from handcrafted accessories into custom couture and ready-to-wear. Its online presence needed to do more than list products: it had to present the fashion house and its evolving collections, while giving shoppers clear paths to ready-to-wear pieces and pre-orders.

How we built it

The decisions that shaped the product, in the order we made them.

  1. 01

    Built a collection-led storefront

    Brought campaign imagery, the house story, press, collections and curated edits into one branded shopping experience.

  2. 02

    Shaped shopping around fashion drops

    Product discovery supports size selection, collection and category filters, and distinct ready-to-wear, pre-order and sold-out states.

  3. 03

    Connected the bag to order processing

    The storefront sends orders to the commerce API. When hosted payment is configured, shoppers continue to secure checkout; otherwise the order is recorded for the atelier to confirm availability, delivery and payment.

  4. 04

    Made room for every chapter of the house

    Bridal work, ready-to-wear drops and fashion presentations each have their own place in the collection archive and brand story.

What it's built with

Named in full, because the question behind it is usually whether your own team could take this over.

  • Django + DRFcommerce and order API
  • PostgreSQLtenant-scoped store data
  • React + TanStack Starteditorial storefront
  • Selcomhosted payment when configured
  • Docker + Caddydeployment and TLS

Results

One storefront

Shopping, collections and house storytelling together

3 product states

Ready-to-wear, pre-order and sold out

Flexible checkout

Hosted payment or an order for atelier follow-up