Ilde was born in Caracas Venezuela from a Portuguese family and Jarrod is from Sydney Australia. But the duo met on set while working as a makeup artist and model at a photo-shoot in Miami Beach.

Ilde Goncalves’s mom was a seamstress so he grew up in this industry, at age 15 got his first job assisting his mother doing the finishing touches for a men clothing line, by age 20 he was attending fashion school in Caracas and specialized in menswear and found his passion for designing swimwear. After moving to Miami Beach he realized it was very challenging to find good quality swimsuits that had a nice fit to the body on beautiful prints at a friendly price. Something missing in the market for men and women. I designed a small capsule that was very well received and then I kept designing small collections at a small scale ( never mass produced)