--- title: "Our Story" description: "The story of Pepa and Q2. Since 1964." canonical_url: https://q2wholesale.co.uk/information/41-our-story url: https://q2wholesale.co.uk/information/41-our-story site: "Q2 Wholesale UK" lang: en-GB last_updated: 2026-11-01 updated: 2026-11-01 --- # Our Story Valencia, Spain · 1964 ## A 12-year-old girl walked into a baby clothes factory. Today, that girl dresses women across the world. Her name is Pepa. And this is her story. 1964 ### I walked in knowing nothing.Expecting nothing. At twelve years old, after school, I would go to a factory in my village in Valencia. They made baby clothes and cots. It wasn't a romantic calling or a brave decision. It was 1964, a Spain where twelve-year-old girls simply helped their families make ends meet. And in there, within two years, I fell completely in love. In love with fabrics. With the way fresh cotton crackled when you unfolded it on the table. In love with seams, with the impossible geometry of a pattern, with that exact moment when two flat pieces became a sleeve, a collar, something that would dress a newborn baby. The other girls counted the hours until home time. I stayed behind. Watching. Asking questions. Taking it all in — stealing every gesture from the older seamstresses with my eyes. 1966 ### I made my choice.And I never stopped. By the time I turned fourteen, I was no longer the same girl who had walked into that factory. I had found — without even looking — the one thing I would do for the next sixty years of my life. I began sketching my own designs. In the evenings, I would sew my own clothes at home. Every single thing I wore, I made myself. Because in the sixties, in my village, a girl didn't get to decide anything. Girls were meant to prepare for marriage. Girls didn't go into fashion, didn't have opinions about fabrics or cuts. It took me twenty-seven years to find the courage to open my own shop. 1993 ### The day the entire villagestopped to look. A woman, running her own business, in a village in Valencia, in 1993. That wasn't exactly normal either. But on opening day, the whole village stopped. It was a celebration. My customers, some of whom had known me since I was a girl, walked in as if they were coming home. From the very first day, I decided this wouldn't be just another shop — it would be a place where every woman felt free to choose whatever she damn well pleased. The shop just kept growing. And one day I realised it was no longer just a shop. Born Before online shops even existed ### We uploaded photos.Customers rang us.We sold over the phone. When computers arrived, we were amongst the first. Nobody had a website yet — online shops simply didn't exist. We published photos of our collection on a webpage, customers would ring us, and that's how we sold. No manuals. No roadmap. Nobody to copy. They said I was mad. As always. Today ### That girlnever gave up. We dress women in Spain, across Europe, in the United States. Young women — free, fresh, vibrant. Women who, like that twelve-year-old girl in a factory in Valencia, refuse to let anyone tell them how far they can go. Every Q2 garment carries sixty years of defiance within it. The defiance of a woman who chose her own path when nobody would let her. The same defiance you wear every time you choose to be yourself. was born from a woman who said I can. And every day, every garment we create carries those very same words within it. Pepa Fashion with a rebel soul since 1964.