About

IGIGI Celebrates 19 Years of Iconic Style and Transforming the World's View of Beauty. 

IGIGI was founded by Yuliya Raquel in February of 2000.

After 13 years of being the sole Fashion Designer, Visionary and Creative Director of IGIGI, Yuliya Raquel left IGIGI to pursue her vision of building revolutionary technologies for the fashion industry, to empower sustainability and ethical manufacturing.

IGIGI since then have been acquired. IGIGI has been under different management and supervision, years 2013 - 2019.
 
On April 1st, 2019, IGIGI brand has been acquired by Yuliya Raquel's new startup, backed by Y Combinator, COUTURME ( http://couturme.com).

We are committed to practicing sustainable and ethical manufacturing, that is why all of our garments are custom made to order.

While, in the past 19 years IGIGI was a ready-to-wear fashion brand, after almost two decades of business, the true costs of ready-to-wear were too great to ignore. The fashion industry's production of off-the-rack garments ranks in the top 3 largest sources of pollution on the planet, which is also devastating to our fresh water supplies.

When ready-to-wear clothes are manufactured in volume 15-20% of fabric ends up going to waste and is dumped in the landfill. Moreover each season hundreds of product samples and off-quality production inventory, which are unsellable, also often end up in the landfill. We believe that off-the-rack clothing is an archaic way to sell fashion, dictated by a single designer's view and one-style-fits-all attitude, while hurting our environment in an unimaginable way.

We believe in a partnership between the designer brand, customers and our planet. We create fashion just the way you love it, in your unique size, style variation and color, while minimizing waste and providing fair compensation and great working conditions to our seamstresses.

We make IGIGI dresses to order, using highest quality over-production fabrics, offering a sustainable alternative to the manufacturing practices. We work with customers to co-create IGIGI designs and hand-sew extremely high quality garments that will be your favorites for years to come. 

From 2013 - 2019 Yuliya Raquel and her team have been developing the technology infrastructure to create designer clothes that fit and flatter on demand at scale. We believe that made to order manufacturing it is a WIN - WIN for our planet, our customers, and our business alike.

You can now choose and customize any design and size dimensions to accommodate each unique body, shape and style. At the moment, it takes 4-6 weeks for delivery of IGIGI made to order styles, but in the near future, we will be able to offer 2–3  week delivery. 

All the experts agree that on-demand, made to order clothing is the way of the future - saving water, our land and resources from wasteful textile production, reducing the amount of fabric and materials used, and preventing excess stock from being a problem. 

We believe that together in partnership we can all make a difference for our future and the future of our children.

Informed and educated consumers are the most powerful force to cause positive change in the world. Numerous educational films have been created to bring awareness to the fashion pollution and lack of ethical practices. We recommend the following films and documentaries to increase your awareness, and thus your power. We are not affiliated with any of the organizations below, however we are taking a stand with their mission:

The True Cost (also available on Netflix)

River Blue Udita (Arise)

Unravel

From Sex Worker to Seamstress: The High Cost of Cheap Clothes

Please stay tuned while we re-build IGIGI and create a bright new future, where all women are celebrated with style, while we create an Win-Win eco-system for all.

IGIGI designs contemporary women’s plus size clothing in San Francisco Bay Area, using cutting edge revolutionary technology, powered by COUTURME.

Named after an ancient goddess embodying vitality, charm, and intelligence, IGIGI creates smart, stylish and sophisticated collections for women with curves that accentuate and celebrate their bodies.

Our clothing features amazing fit, beautiful fabrics and brilliant patterns. We proudly provide our unique ShapeStylistTM tool to help customers find the right fit for their body shape.

Join our global community of fierce, fashion-forward women!