Made in Bali: The Island Fashion Edit

2026-07-02 · By Splendid

In: Bali

Bali has quietly become one of Southeast Asia’s most compelling fashion destinations. Beyond the rice terraces and surf breaks, a new generation of designers is building labels rooted in island life, cutting pieces that carry from a morning yoga class to a long beachside lunch and on to dinner.

This is our edit of the Bali-based labels worth knowing now: eight ateliers producing swimwear, resort linen, dresses and activewear, all designed and largely made on the island.

LILY JEAN

Handmade in Bali, Lily Jean is built on the breezy, sun-bleached separates the island does best. Silk-cotton shirts and natural-toned trousers carry a quiet, lived-in elegance, cut for long lunches and slow afternoons. The blousy silk-cotton shirt below is the label’s best seller for good reason: generous through the body, light as air, and dressed up or down with a change of shoes. Worn with the wide-leg Rue pants, it is close to an island uniform in two pieces.

The name honours two grandmothers, Lily and Jean, and the label has been Balinese from birth: founder Made de Coney was born and raised on the island and opened her first boutique in 2004. She still releases small capsule collections every few months rather than seasons, the hand beading is done over weeks in Japanese glass beads, and the cutting floor runs a strict zero waste policy, with offcuts becoming dolls for the Bali Street Kids Project.

AANOUKIS SWIMWEAR

Founded between France and Bali, Aanoukis brings Parisian tailoring to tropical swimwear. Each piece is cut from European fabrics and finished by hand in the label’s Bali atelier, and the difference shows in the details: seams that sit flat, straps that hold their line, suits that keep their shape season after season. The range runs from clean one-pieces like the Livia to resort separates such as the Bahamas pants, made to go from the water to an aperitif without changing.

The label belongs to French designer Alexandra Adamiak, who named it for the Egyptian goddess Anoukis with her own initial added, and has made everything in Bali since 2015. Suits are cut from Vita by Carvico, an Italian fabric regenerated from ocean waste, and the handwork is the quiet signature: crochet, macramé and braiding by Balinese craftswomen, for whom the brand buys sewing machines so they can work from their own villages. Ayu, the crochet artisan in Singaraja, has made the signature pieces since day one.

ERIKA PEÑA

Puerto Rican born Erika Peña trained under Donna Karan and Josie Natori before making Bali home, and her Seminyak boutique has grown into a resort wear institution. The label pairs flowing silhouettes with handmade jewellery, designed, in her words, for the everyday goddess. Her press pages run from Vogue to Harper’s Bazaar.

The label began in 2006 with a single pair of handmade earrings, fashioned from the remnants of a shell lamp, and grew into a full resort wardrobe worn by everyone from Beyoncé to Kate Moss. Born in Puerto Rico to Dominican parents and trained in New York, Peña now designs from Bali with her team, and the jewellery is still made by hand.

ACTIVEWEAR

The island’s activewear labels take their own line on performance dressing: natural fibres, breathable weaves and plant-based fabrics, designed for the stretch between a sunrise class and a sunset surf.

WEAR RAMÉ

Wear Ramé blurs activewear into resort wear. Founded in Bali, the label cuts sport dresses, mesh cover-ups and sculpted tops in technical fabrics, pieces as happy on a court as at a rooftop bar at sunset. The backless Callie, built with movement in mind, has become its signature, and the size chart alone tells you the brand does not take itself too seriously: sizes run from Extra Slay to Extra Fabulous.

Ramé is Indonesian for the good kind of chaos, lively, joyful and loud at once, and founder Brenda Angelia has built the label in its image since starting it from a university dorm room in Taipei in 2018. Today a team of forty five designs and makes everything with Bali artisans, and the Second Life programme repairs your pieces free, for life. Bali, she says, was never just a destination; it was the place she felt safest being herself.

STUDIO.K ATELIER

Bali's wellness culture meets Scandinavian discipline at Studio.K Atelier, the label Swedish designers Miki and Rikard West have run between Bali and the Stockholm archipelago since their first pieces were sewn in 2016. It began life as Studio K Yogawear and grew up with its wearers, hence the new name. Everything is cut from certified organic or biodegradable fibres, dyed with non toxic dyes and made in a woman owned Bali studio; even the mailers are cassava. The palette stays quiet, black above all, in sculpted silhouettes considered enough to move from a Pilates class straight to a café terrace. It is activewear for people who would rather not look like they are wearing activewear.

UMA & LEOPOLD

For the travel wardrobe that leans toward quiet colour and relaxed tailoring. This Bali label specialises in resort linen: shirts, shorts and co-ords dyed in earthy tones, forest green among them, that soften and improve with wear and washing. The pieces are cut loose and easy, made to be bought as a set and worn apart, and they earn their keep long after the trip: the Naomi shirt works as well over swimwear as it does at dinner.

Founder Lara Braga grew up in her father's leather atelier in Rio de Janeiro and carried the family trade to Bali; the name is a homage to her parents' love. The Brazilian and Balinese threads meet in the handwork: Kerawang cut-out embroidery, a technique handed down since the seventeenth century, hand beading, and pieces that can take a month to finish. Nine boutiques across the island, and now one in Phuket, suggest the island has adopted her back.

MAGALI PASCAL

If the island has a couturier, it is Magali Pascal. The Frenchwoman trained in Parisian fashion houses before falling for Bali, where she cut her first capsule collection in a small studio two decades ago and has been refining a wardrobe of silk, lace and ethereal silhouettes ever since. It reads Paris first and resort second; this is the label to pack for the dinner that matters.

Everything is produced in limited runs through her in-house Indonesian atelier alongside local artisans, a deliberately slow model she has kept as the label has grown into its Bali boutiques and an international following. The cut is the signature: bias silk that moves, lace that breathes, like the Carmen dress below, ivory lace falling into black silk, cut for an evening that asks for it.

528HZ BALI

Founded by Tiara Eve, 528Hz treats clothing as a form of wellness, built on the idea that what you wear can steady you. Every piece is handmade in Bali in small, mindful batches, cut from bamboo, Tencel and the label’s signature soft crinkle textures, fabrics chosen to feel calming against the skin, with silhouettes that take their cues from water and breath. The white Crinkle set below is the label at its most essential, drifting from villa mornings to a beach club lunch.

Bali’s fashion scene runs deeper than any single guide. These eight labels simply share the standard that matters: considered design, honest materials, and clothes that stay in rotation long after the flight home.