Coco Mercy Chu

Founder and Designer, KALAIA Director, Brand and Comms, Antworks

Coco is an entrepreneur, marketing professional and fashion designer. As Director of Brand and Comms at AntWorks, Coco exercises her passion for branding, marketing and business strategy by using her inquisitive mind and entrepreneurial mindset to drive high growth and business scalability, championing change and building sustainable organisational growth. She loves helping startups and SMEs get to their next level of success, and established corporations reinvent themselves.

Coco is also the Founder and Designer of KALAIA, Singapore’s first bohemian designer label that aims to lead fashion towards a sustainable and ethical future. KALAIA’s products are all proudly designed, developed and ethically made in Singapore from limited run fabrics in small batches with quality traditional workmanship by last generation seamstresses.

As a sustainability advocate, Coco is also active in promoting the movement and lifestyle through social media and events, recently representing Urban Design Festival as an ambassador.