For almost three decades, UbU has occupied a favorite place in women’s closets and suitcases. Discovered on the shelves and racks of specialty stores, upscale boutiques, country club pro shops, resorts, and select catalogues, our novelty travel wear – like you – is continuously evolving.
UbU Through the Years
Founded in 1991 by Alan Blau, UbU International Corporation had humble beginnings as a manufacturer of tie-dye sweats and T-shirts. In 1996, David Koral helped the brand achieve international recognition for a wider range of clothing that includes cult-favorite jackets, blouses, dresses, skirts, outerwear, and more. In 2016 Joe Leggo was made a partner. Joe has been with UbU for 12 years and serves as the treasurer / vice president and is the face of the brand at shows.
Our tagline, Pack Your Personality, reflects the items for which we are most fondly known: a line of novelty travel and leisure wear that is reversible, lightweight, packable, and blissfully wrinkle free, thanks to intricate hand pleating and fabric texturing.
Intended to help you express your fun and adventurous side, UbU clothing is available in a variety of colors and unique prints. Recently, our team has partnered with a curated group of artists who created custom designs for our bamboo tunics, reversible raincoats, and packable blazers.
Where have you taken UbU?
At UbU, we’d love to see travel photos to know where you’ve worn our creations. Submit your photos and you may be featured on our website and social media accounts! Please include your full name, e-mail address, phone number, and the location where the photo was taken, as well as brief description of your trip. Photos and descriptions submitted here. Submit your photo and travel story, and you’ll be entered into our monthly drawing for a free gift.
*Your submission implies consent to use your likeness. No purchase required. To receive a discount code without submitting a photo, please email us. We respect your privacy and will not sell or share your information.
The UbU Vision
To continue as the preeminent provider of fashionable, fun and versatile travel wear to style conscious, forward thinking women.
To use available fabrics in ways not done before.
To design styles in prints that help you express your personality, to make your wardrobe your own.
To create clothing that breathes with you, molds to your body, clings, yet gives you freedom to be… U.
About The Artist
William DeBilzan is an artist of life and love, who creates modern art that is reflective of the heart.
Based on thoughts and memories of real life experiences, he creates multiple forms and mediums of fine art from paintings and murals to sculptures. A passionate experience everyone should enjoy if you visit his art gallery. He approaches each blank canvas with his own unique style of spontaneous creativity and endeavors to find balance by creating a solid foundation of rich color and bold texture, adding layers of dimension and complexity within each composition.
Community Outreach
At UbU, we believe that everyone (individuals, as well as business) needs to be an active participant in building a better community.
We are grateful for the achievements we have attained, which allow us the opportunity to give back to the community.
The following are some of the endeavors in which we have been involved:
Miss Lizzie’s: Spring Bling Fashion Show, Silent Auction for the Outer Banks Relief Foundation
Garment Donation
Center for Cancer Wellness: Candy’s Place
Garment donations for Summer Fashion Show and Benefit
American Heart Association: Go Red For Women Luncheon
Garment donation for silent auction
El Nino Emanuel Orphanage: Huaycan, Peru
Garment donations
Alzheimers’s Association
Bags for Gala
March of Dimes
10% of sales of “Joey Jacket”
Ruth’s Place: Shelter for battered and abused women
Donated over 400 pieces for a Silent Auction
Special Olympics
Hats for participants
Jackets for charity auction, proceeds to Special Olympics
SPCA: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Monetary contributions
American Heart Association
Monetary contributions
United Way (in conjunction with Nordstrom)
Jackets for charity auction, proceeds to United Way
THON: Support children with cancer (held in the Mid West)
Jackets for charity auction, proceeds to THON