Ikas
Wholesale Clothing and Fashion Site
My career
as a clothing designer started at the age of 17 in Ubud Bali 10
years ago (in 1995). My Aunt Reza was a designer of batik clothing
in Bali, she owned a shop where I use to visit every summer holiday.
My Aunt Waty was also fashion illustrator in Ubud Bali. Her untimely
death-(with my mother soon to follow) left me to tend to things
at my dad's Shop in Ubud. I was still in SMA high school, doing
my final years, and on my way to a lucrative Stewardest Career
at Cathay Pacific. I quit wanting to become a stewardest after
I graduated to keep Dad's Fashion shop going, and I worked part
time at the Wisata Cinema.
At that
time Dad had one of the most strategic clothing boutique shops
in the Ubud, and the shop employed the finest staff and designers
and tailors. I learned from the old ways ! We needed to make money
fast, and with the people I encountered in the all over the place,
we could make tailored clothes in huge quantities. We started
with some of the richest people in Bali account the word spread,
and all the Puri people started to follow. We made all the promo
clothes that they sold on the gatherings.
During the
movies, I worked as the tickets lady, so I got to speak with alot
of people. During college days, I had a full ride to school for
Engineering at the Udayana University. My major was Civil Engineering,
but changed to Architecture. It ran almost 4years! before I graduated
and earned my Bachelors title. Then I went to back to Ubud to
run dads small shop again. In 1999, I designed a line of clothing
for pregnancy chicky Babe. When my dads senior designer asked
me what I called this strip of pregnancy wear, I blurted out-
"Maternity Chicky Babe wear". Thats what Pregnancy clothes
lines was called. I kept dad's trademark on 'Maternity Chicky
Babe' and made that my Plus size maternity line. It still holds
today. At the Kuta Carnival Festival in 2003 I
started handing out my cards and thats how it all started. I stayed
in the Wholesale Maternity Clothing Wear keeping my status as
an official. I moved to Nusa Dua in 2005 after hitting "it"
(clothing wear) in the Jakarta Fashions. I played around with
stocks a little bit, and this one stock I purchased went through
the roof. I have since given up the vitamins and nutrition to
concentrate on the Maternity wear. It's just like making clothes
in dads factory again!!!!! I love it!!!!!!!
