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Our Story · Myrah Penaloza
Myrah Penaloza — founder and designer, Bali
Our Story

Made with devotion.
Worn with intention.

A Mexican designer. An Indian co-founder. Thirty Balinese families. One shared belief that how you dress is ceremony.

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"This is not clothing designed to keep up.
It is clothing designed to return you to yourself."

This brand began the way all things with staying power do — slowly, quietly, and from a place that couldn't be explained, only lived.

What you hold in your hands isn't just a garment. It carries the intention of the woman who designed it, the skill of the family who made it, and the energy of an island that has been weaving ceremony into cloth for centuries.

Myrah Penaloza — founder and designer of conscious slow fashion brand based in Bali
The Artisan

Meet the founder

Myrah Penaloza is a Mexican designer who grew up understanding that clothing is not decoration. It is language. It is identity. It is the first thing you offer the world every morning and the last thing you shed at night.

She came to Bali and stayed — not because she planned to, but because some places recognize you before you recognize them. In this island, she found artisans who understood what she was making without her having to explain it.

"I didn't come here to build a fashion brand. I came here to build something that lasts. It turned out they were the same thing."

Every piece in this collection begins with Myrah. A feeling, a sketch, a conversation with the women who bring it to life. Nothing leaves this island without her hands having touched it in some form.

The Architect

The partnership
that shapes it all

Robindra is Indian. Myrah is Mexican. Between them sits two ancient cultures that have always understood what the modern fashion industry forgot — that what you wear carries energy, and the hands who make it matter as much as the one who wears it.

Robindra does not design the clothing. He designs everything else — the systems that let Myrah create freely, the relationships that let the artisan families work with dignity, the words that let the brand speak honestly.

His Capricorn precision holds the architecture. Her Virgo artistry holds the soul. His Cancer Rising is the warmth you feel in every email, every fabric choice, every moment the brand feels like it sees you. Her Virgo Rising is why you trust it.

"We call ourselves the Architect and the Artisan. One builds the mountain. The other makes sure every stone is placed with intention."

This isn't a founder story about disruption or hustle. It's about two people who decided to build something beautifully, slowly, and let it compound.

Myrah and Robindra — founders of Myrah Penaloza slow fashion brand Bali
Balinese artisan hands handcrafting a Myrah Penaloza garment
"This brand exists because of thirty families who believe that making something slowly and making it well are not opposites. They are the same act."
The People Behind Every Piece
30
Balinese families
100%
Living wage, always
0
Factories. Homes only.
Intention per stitch
The Practice

Slow fashion isn't a trend.
It's a practice.

The global fashion industry remains one of the worst offenders when it comes to water pollution, carbon emissions, and labor exploitation. We are a small, independent brand. We cannot dismantle the whole system. But we can refuse to participate in it — and build something that proves another way works.

Your order takes a few weeks because each piece is handcrafted to order. Made with care, by someone who is paid fairly to take their time. Someone whose craft we honor the same way we honor our own.

That's not a delay. That's devotion.

How We Work

Six commitments.
No exceptions.

01
Living Wages

Every artisan family earns a real living wage. Not minimum wage. Not a wage that's "fair for Bali." A wage that lets them live with dignity and choose their own hours.

02
Made in Homes

Not factories. The sound of a sewing machine sits alongside the sound of rain on banana leaves, children finishing homework, rice cooking for dinner. This is where your clothing is made.

03
Natural Fabrics Only

We work with linen, organic cotton, silk, and plant-based botanical textiles. Never polyester. Never synthetic blends. Your skin is the body's largest organ. We will never cover it in petrochemical fiber — not for cost, not for convenience, not for any reason.

04
Small Batches

Every garment is made in small batches. When something sells out, it may not come back. That's not scarcity marketing. That's what it looks like when you refuse to make more than the earth can hold.

05
Plastic-Free Packaging

Since 2020, every package we send uses zero plastic. No poly mailers. No plastic wrap. Materials that return to the earth the way everything should.

06
Botanical Dyeing

Many of our colorways use plant-based botanical dyes — turmeric, indigo, and native Balinese botanicals. Rainbeau, our signature colorway, is one of a kind in every run. That's not a caveat. That's the point.

Community of women — Myrah Penaloza giving back
Giving Back

This brand exists
because of women.

Women who stitch. Women who dream. Women who raise families between fittings and somehow make everything hold together.

So giving back to women has never felt like charity. It feels like the most natural thing in the world.

In Bali, we provide ongoing support to organizations doing vital maternal and community work. Globally, we support organizations fighting for justice, human rights, and safe motherhood.

Bali Street MumsEvery Mother CountsCampaign ZeroInnocence ProjectGrassroots LawThe ACLU
Brand Origin

Three cultures.
One intention.

Myrah is Mexican. Robindra is Indian. The clothing is made in Bali. This fusion of Mexican artistry, Indian heritage, and Balinese spirituality is what makes this brand unlike anything else in conscious fashion.

Mexico taught us that color is prayer. India taught us that craft is devotion. Bali taught us that every morning begins with an offering — and that even the smallest acts, done with intention, become ceremony.

"Mexico taught us that colour is prayer. India taught us that craft is devotion. Bali taught us that even the smallest act, done with intention, becomes ceremony. We make clothing at that intersection."

These aren't abstract values. They live in the drape of every garment, the weight of every natural fabric, the imperfect beauty of every piece made by hand.

Community gathering — the cultural origin behind Myrah Penaloza
The Place

Where the brand
lives in Bali

Myrah Penaloza boutique exterior Pererenan Bali designed by Earth Lines Architects Interior of Myrah Penaloza boutique Bali
Boutique interior detail Pererenan Outdoor fire pit and deck Myrah Penaloza Bali boutique Myrah Penaloza boutique Pererenan Bali full exterior

Photography: Earth Lines Architects · Pererenan, Bali · Completed October 2022

Our Pererenan boutique was designed by Earth Lines Architects, one of Bali's most sought-after design studios. We waited nearly two years for them to take our project. What they built is not a shop — it is a considered architectural work, where every material, every detail, every corner of light was resolved as part of a single intention.

If you are ever in Bali, come in. The space is worth experiencing in person.

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The Heart of It All

I am a Mother.

Not just to my children. It is my intention to be a mother to the world.

To see every woman who finds her way to this brand through the eyes of a loving mother. Without judgment. Without condition. With the kind of steady, fierce, unhurried love that doesn't ask you to be further along than you are.

I think about my daughter every time we choose a fabric. Every time we turn down a supplier who has the better price but the worse answer. Her skin taught us something that no research paper could have — that the body knows before the mind does. That what we press against our skin for sixteen hours a day is not a small decision. It is an act of care, or it is not.

"Our journeys are unexpected in ways we cannot plan for. Every woman carries a different weight, walks a different threshold, faces a challenge no one else can fully see."

This is why the clothing matters. Not because of what it costs or how it photographs. But because of what it says to the woman putting it on — that she is seen, that she is held, that something was made for her with care.

Together, through the energy of the MA Force — the Mother Energy — we carry a vital intention onto this planet. That every woman who dresses with consciousness becomes a thread in something larger than fashion. A way of being. A frequency of love that moves through the world in the bodies of women who have remembered who they are.

With love from Bali,

Myrah