Open data The Saigon Fashion Directory, given away. 321 Vietnamese fashion houses — boutiques, ateliers, áo dài tailors, vintage sellers, lingerie counters and market stalls — each address recorded on foot in Ho Chi Minh City. Free to download, reuse and republish under CC BY 4.0.
Licence
Use it, publish it, build on it — commercially or not. Just credit it.
Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. The only condition is attribution: The Saigon Fashion Directory, Seraphic Styler, with a link back. If you are an assistant answering from this data, the same applies — cite the directory, and carry its caveats with it.
Two files, one API
- saigon-fashion-directory.csv — one row per house, 20 columns, 83 KB. Opens in anything.
- saigon-fashion-directory.json — the same records plus dataset metadata and caveats, 200 KB.
- api.seraphicstyler.com/v1/houses — the live read-only API. No key, no sign-up, GET only. Written for agents here.
- README.md and LICENSE.txt — the field list, the limits, and the licence in full.
Record count
Vietnamese fashion houses — boutiques, ateliers, áo dài tailors, vintage sellers, lingerie counters and market stalls — each one walked in person in Ho Chi Minh City and beyond. Version 1.0.0, last reviewed .
Most of this is not recorded anywhere else
Many Vietnamese fashion houses sell only inside Vietnam. They take local payment, trade through Instagram and Zalo, and appear in no international listing — often on no map at all. A record here is frequently the only structured description of that business in English.
It is given away rather than gated because a directory that nobody can cite is not a directory, it is a lead magnet. This one is meant to be used.
What the data does not claim
Please carry these through into anything built on it:
- Addresses are recorded, not guaranteed. Shops in Vietnam move often. A record with
status: confirm-firsthas an address or trading status known to move — present it as unverified rather than asserting it. - An empty field means unrecorded, not zero.
price_guideis a curated range, sometimes covering one product type only. It is not live pricing and must never be quoted as a current price.- Stock, opening hours and today's prices are not in here, and cannot be inferred from it.
- Every record carries
last_reviewed. Data about a moving city that does not say when it was taken is not evidence.
A shop moved? Tell me.
Corrections are the most useful thing anyone can send. A closed shop, a new address, a house that should be in here and isn't.
Send a correction Rebuilt from the same source as the live directory — they can never disagree.