Fashion Brand — Web Design / Brand Cohesion / SEO/AEO/GEO
Bandit is an LA womenswear brand built on the energy of the city — West Hollywood late nights, Silver Lake mornings, the highway at golden hour. Wahid Studio built a fully custom Shopify Hydrogen storefront that matches that energy: an interactive OS-style desktop with draggable windows, a built-in VHS film player, and a content system the founder manages entirely without touching code.
The Transformation
Desktop


Mobile


The Challenge
The storefront looked like every other DTC fashion site — clean, competent, forgettable. For a brand with a distinct point of view and a growing campaign film library, a generic template was actively undercutting the work. The site needed to feel like the brand: cinematic, tactile, a little reckless. Beyond aesthetics, Bandit needed infrastructure that could scale. Product-level sizing guides, structured FAQs built for Google and AI search engines, a contact form that auto-handled customer inquiries — all without requiring a developer every time content needed updating.
Our Approach
The centerpiece is an interactive OS-style desktop homepage: visitors click icons to open draggable windows revealing the brand story, catalog, campaign imagery, films, and upcoming popup events. On mobile, the desktop collapses into a vertically stacked layout with tappable panels and a persistent "Shop All" CTA. The entire content system — every homepage window, popup event, screensaver video, social link, and credits bar — is controlled through a single Shopify metaobject. No code deploys for content changes. We built out a full Films section with a custom VHS-aesthetic video player, a Journal for brand storytelling and vlogs, per-product sizing guides and FAQs with structured data for Google rich results, live search, a cart drawer, customer account portal, dark/light theme, and an /llms.txt AI context file so crawlers know exactly where Bandit's authoritative content lives.
The Results
Built from Scratch
Storefront Pages
No Code Required
Content Updates
Structured Data + llms.txt
SEO Infrastructure
Auto-reply + Notification
Email Automation
My name is Odin, and I run a small independent womenswear company based in Los Angeles called BANDIT. I reached out to Fadi and his team to help redesign and revamp my business's website. Fadi went above and beyond, not only taking my vision and creating a website that matched it perfectly, but also considering all of the factors that I am unfamiliar with. He optimized my SEO, AI accessibility, and streamlined my FAQ’s. Overall, Fadi took my website from feeling like a homegrown mess into a professional billboard for my business. I can not thank him enough for his work :)
Odin Frostad
Designer/Founder, Bandit