ML Furs
ML Furs is a multi-generational luxury outerwear brand serving collectors and discerning buyers across the US, with a category that historically only sees demand during a narrow winter window.
The partnership started a decade ago around a problem fur retailers had quietly given up on: extending demand beyond the cold-weather window. The web and brand work has compounded year over year — every cycle building on the last.
From discovery
to compounding.
Three steps in the engagement narrative — challenge, solution, results. Each card expands for the longer detail.
Challenge
Luxury fur demand was concentrated in a four-month window. Storefront UX hadn't been touched in years. Mobile experience was punishing. New collectors couldn't find the brand outside seasonal search peaks, and existing collectors had no reason to engage between purchase cycles.
Solution
Full UX rebuild scoped to the buyer's journey, not the calendar. New IA surfacing collector pieces year-round. Mobile-first design language matched to the brand's heritage rather than fashion-DTC trends. Editorial scaffolding that gave off-season visitors a reason to engage — care, history, provenance, restoration.
Results
Organic traffic 3×+ across the engagement. The off-season window now generates meaningful revenue — the category got year-round demand it didn't have before. The partnership crossed the decade mark in 2024 and the work continues quarterly.
Brand work
in production.
Mobile-first collector PDP with provenance and craft detail
Real production work. Live on the brand’s domain. Not mockups — what’s actually deployed and earning revenue.
A category that had quietly accepted seasonal as the ceiling. Eight months of the year, nobody was looking.
Ten years of the same conversation, every quarter. The site changed. The year changed. The conversation didn't.
Strategy by
discipline.
Collector journey, not seasonal shopping cart.
Rebuilt the experience around how collectors actually buy luxury fur — provenance, craft, fit, restoration. Mobile-first design language matched to the brand's heritage rather than DTC fashion trends. New IA surfacing collector pieces independent of season. Editorial scaffolding that gives off-season visitors a real reason to engage.
Performance, search, and a maintainable code base across a decade.
Performance work on heavy-imagery pages so mobile experience matches the design intent. Search and filter rebuilt around collector taxonomy. Care-and-restoration content section as its own engagement engine. A code base maintained across a decade of evolving design and merchandising — no rebuilds, no migrations to reset progress.
Two disciplines, one decade. The UX and the development run together — design intent always lands in code, code always serves the design intent.
What the program
actually delivered.
Real and measured. Compounded. They didn’t arrive all at once.
Year-round demand wasn't a marketing problem — it was a design problem. The site that surfaces collector pieces in July generates the visit that converts in November.
Organic traffic 3×+ across the partnership and still compounding. The off-season inversion is the line that matters: restoration and care content drive their own qualified-buyer pipeline, and a meaningful share of revenue now lands outside the historical cold-weather window. Brand authority in the collector segment has compounded to where new collectors arrive pre-convinced. The decade-mark partnership is the longest continuously-running Act Bold engagement.
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to get proven results.
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