IWK-herself

Designed by IWK


You can call me IWK. Its how I give my credit to anything creative that I find myself a part of. I'm a little bit of everything. I have a degree in Aerospace Engineering and I like to put fabric together by various means and call it art.

All over this page you will find links to my Cade MK social networks. In my other side of life, my "reel" life you can find me behind the scenes of movie sets, writing, directing, and editting films on the these links:

SOme personal Designer biography:


I grew up as a fairly poor kid, in a back woods small town outside of Orlando. Born in Claifornia, I am a floridian to my core.

It was a hard life as a floridian child. Bugs. Lightning (been struck twice). Everythign can eat you. We had no AC and it was so hot that when you tried to sleep, the sheets would just stick to you. Maybe 3 or four nights a year it was so hot and humid you never fell asleep. That was life.

There were a lot of things we never had. An oven was a big one. I remember a time we cooked a turkey in the microwave for thanksgiving. I did good in college because I knew how to cook anything in the microwave and I had an oven in college but I never used it once because I didn’t know how to use it. Same thing for the garbage disposal. Never had one.

My dad worked at a gasket factory and he would bring home rags from Work. They were bright colors... it was the 80’s and I would take scissors and do these cuts and tie the edges of the fabric and I would make Barbie clothes.

I was very young when I saw this bridal gown for Barbie at the store and it was really expensive. I begged for it and my mom told me she had some extra lace at home and that if I used that and the scraps and made the dress by sewing it, that she would buy it for me.

I was maybe 7 or 8. I told her it was a deal and I looked at that box of scraps and I was like “I could make so many more dresses with this. So I made tons of clothes for my girl Barbie. I didn’t want the dress in the store anymore. It was lame. I could do better. So I did.

I never cared about the size of barbie’s waist. If anything I related to her. She had all these occupations and I thought I could grow up and have all these occupations so I did. I grew up and I did everything Barbie could do. Of course, like Barbie, I knew I had to have the right outfit no matter what I was doing. And I got this reputation for that. My high school English teacher said I came to school in a different themed costume everyday.

I’ve never really been tied to one look. I have a look or theme for every day but it changes depending on mood. I was twelve when I made a skirt for myself and then I made another and another and it took off from there.

I was 17 when I started making cosplay costumes. I was big into Star Wars and saw that there wasn’t a whole lot to buy out there. I went to college when I was 18 and that’s when I started my first business. It was called Ia-Bou’s Cloak Closet. I sold my first Star Wars themed costume for a crazy profit. Everyone in my family said You’ll make $10. I didn’t. I made a lot more. In fact I continued it in for years. And put competitors out of business. Then I got bored and stopped.

I started making suits for myself and jeans and shirts and no one ever knew I made them because I started to get pretty good at it, I would tell people I made it and they wouldn’t believe me so I just kept it to myself.

The funny thing about it all was that the first costume I made, I had sewed in my dorm room. It was very distinct. My own version of a Jedi costume. Nothing else like it. I wore it to countless conventions met costume deisgners and concept artists and then 20 years later I’m in a theater and I see a girl on screen and I’m like “what the hell!” It was my costume.

Did I influence it or did I tell the future? I don’t know. What I do know is that it’s a huge compliment to my taste. I was ahead of the times, I guess.

2020 came around and wearing a m@sk felt so degrading. They say dress for success and I had enough of it, m@sks were such a bore and then I realized it was an opportunity, everyone around me was depressed about wearing an extra accessory and I saw the opportunity to do what I do best... give people what they didn’t even know they wanted... freaking awesome m@sks.