Textiles puerto rico: Puerto Rico Natural Fiber Project: Creating a Chain From Farm to Fabric
Diverse Mix of Influence for Textiles, Design and Couture in Puerto Rico – Alessandro Sicuro Comunication
The enrichment and variety of colors and designs couture the textile and couture culture of Puerto Rico. Our Island has many waves of migration and mix of regional, indigenous and national cultures from several parts of the world. Their origins from multicultural population native Taino, Spanish and West African roots.
The fashion industry originated in Puerto Rico with the first Spaniards who came to the Island in the sixteenth century, and its subsequent evolution as trends occurred in Europe.
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At the same time, the industries related with sugar cane, tobacco, and coffee were the main income on our Island. On every country, fashion resembles the values, costumes, sociology and culture form the society environment. The invasion of the United States in 1898, Puerto Rico continued to adapt the French fashion since it was the one followed by the Americans; and how in
the twentieth century as a result of the Cuban revolution came designers from Havana who were many more sophisticated than Puerto Rico in that line.
Particularly, the traditional dress mixture of Spanish and African influence.
Moreover, Puerto Rico adopted the making of bobbin lace is known as “mundillo”. Some researchers believe the bobbin lace was originates in Egypt between the 6th and 7th centuries or in Italy or France. During the 16th century it is possible the bobbin lace came to Puerto Rico from Spain and other suggested that Haitian residents brought it them in the 19th century. Then, the art was practiced on the island to create adornments for highly styled garments, such as those of the clergy. It proliferated in the municipalities of Moca, Isabela and Aguadilla. Furthermore, the Italian the Italian textile and apparel industry is the European leader where Italy belongs to the leading global exporters of both textiles and apparel.
The industry of the needle in Puerto Rico had its bigger pinnacle for the 1917, since with the arrival of the First World War closed the European markets, which forced the United States to look elsewhere where to produce the materials that no longer purchased for the manufacture of textiles.
In the United States the development of industrialization agreed to the growth of the clothing manufacturing industry on the island. The small sewing workshops in Puerto Rico competed with the great machineries of the United States. The seamstresses on the island were mainly responsible for assembling, finishing and giving the last details to the pieces that were already cut and designed. By the 1930s, the needle industry in Puerto Rico was considered the second most important industry on the island.
The needle industry revolved mostly around New York City. The 20st century, particularly between the years 1947 – 1965, Puerto Rico attract United States and foreign capital focus on the establishment of relatively labor-intensive industries such as clothing and textiles, food processing, leather and tobacco products.
The class of Puerto Rican designers of high quality, many of them educated in the United States and Europe, who represent an extraordinary resource for Puerto Rico to export its product to the rest of the world.
The textile and apparel industry in Puerto Rico was remarkable by great Puerto Rican designers like Luisa Matienzo, Genoveva Vázquez, Rafaela Santos, Fernando Pena, Roberto Paris, Rafael Mojena, Luis Fuentes, David Fernández, Carlota Alfaro, Carmen Chirino, Nono Maldonado among others.
Carnivals.
In the municipalities of Arecibo, San Juan and Ponce celebrated the prestigious carnivals where the fiesta of the town contemplated the beautiful dresses made by Puerto Rican designers who were shown in the parades during the month of February of each year.
In particular, on February 27, 1977, the model of the Turkisa brand, Mency Marie, was selected as the 1977 Children’s Queen of the Carnival of Arecibo with the 1977 Young Queen, Belinda Borrero, both modeling the dresses handmade by the Puerto Rican prestigious designer Genoveva Vazquez.
Turkisa is a contemporary brand of female clothing and accessories with a diverse mixture of influence for design manufactured in Puerto Rico inspired by Mency Marie.
The tropical rain forest, mostly warm, humid and windy climate during the year opens the door of inspiration for creative, vivid and elegant design for female encouraged by the mineral and precious gem, Turquoise. The spring-summer clothing and accessories is compare with the colorful colors from the beautiful beaches and forests of the Island.
The upward trend in social media communication and the successful business communication styles in Italy inspires the brand of Turkisa to assign SURE-COM WEB AGENCY communication their Web communication. The openness and uniqueness manners of Italian Journalists, like Alessandro Sicuro, encourage me to join the Italian agency
of sure-com Italy and America publishing articles about Puerto Rico. Turkisa promotes the Italian fashion endeavors with fashionable related news, styles and trends. Sure-com Italy and sure-comAmerica are two separate sections of the same international communications agency that leads with brand marketing and Turkisa was the first fashion brand in Puerto Rico that joined the brand introduction endeavors.
Puerto Rico still having an opportunity for the development of initiatives aimed at the development of the Puerto Rican market based on the talent, skills and knowledge acquired, since an infrastructure was not developed that would support this market and needle industry independently, which in turn was directed towards development of small businessmen in the different areas of fashion industry.
Italy has a reputation for creating fashion that not only refers to clothes for the body but express the true self of each human being. The Italian citizens pride themselves on looking their best by wearing quality garments and accessories that boost the wearer’s best attributes. However they value inner beauty, most prefer to be part of the surrounding loveliness by being attractive themselves. For Italian female especially, fashion is a way to show of the inner beauty outside the fine-looking figure for the appreciation of others. Following this viewpoint, Turkisa adopted the 43 ° 11 ° accessories for Puerto Rico.
The accessories of 43.11 composed of dell’Abetone rocks, the purity of the marble of Carrara, the sea of Castiglioncello and the heart of the Santa Croce sull’Arno skin combining the unique elements from the artisan experience of territory producing the creations 43 ° 11 °.
Turkisa will show the first creative event for the Spring-Summer Collection 2017 designs and accessories on Sunday, December 18, 2016 at Mugs Restaurant in Arecibo, Puerto Rico at 4:00pm located in Gonzalo Marin Street number10 with the beautiful nature views of the Río Grande de Arecibo accompanied with the Urban Art painted on the walls and building’s in Arecibo downtown.
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Dr. Carmen I. Figueroa-Medina
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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This Female-Founded Start-up Wants to Rebuild Puerto Rico’s Fashion Industry
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Post–Hurricane Maria, Retazo wants to bring attention to both the manufacturing power and design talent on the island.
By Frances Solá-Santiago
Auralís Herrero Lugo moved to Puerto Rico from New York City in January with a plan to rebuild the island’s ailing fashion industry. To characterize going back home after Hurricane Maria worsened a decade-long economic crisis as a big challenge would be an understatement, but she says those are a recurring theme in her life.
“I’m always the type of person [who is] never clear on what she’s doing but does it anyway,” Herrero says. “People always tell me I’m crazy for wanting to come back, but I always say, ‘Why not?’”
This was actually Herrero’s third attempt to move back home, after building a fashion career in the mainland. The last time she tried to relocate, a few years ago, she was the head of a sustainable resort-wear brand, Auralístudio. Her plan was to have the line be manufactured in Puerto Rico and sold in New York, but it didn’t pan out: Herrero realized local factories didn’t know how to work with designers the way she had experienced in Manhattan’s Garment District.
“In New York you take your designs and materials to the factory and have your orders back in two weeks,” she says. “In Puerto Rico there wasn’t even a connection between designer and factory.”
Though you might not think of it as a fashion destination now, Puerto Rico has a history with clothing manufacturing, dating back to the early twentieth century. By 1936 nearly 100,000 women worked as seamstresses for local factories or led their own home delivery sewing businesses. Today the factories that remain, according to Herrero, mostly produce large uniform orders, primarily for the military and local schools; major designers on the island, primarily based in the capital of San Juan, focus on bridal and special-occasion gowns.
That realization is what drove her third go: Herrero is the cofounder and director of Retazo, a fashion manufacturing and education platform created to bridge the gap between local designers and factories with sustainable practices in Puerto Rico. The name comes from the Spanish word for both a fabric scrap and a big challenge—fitting for this particular project.
An image from a manufacturing workshop with local designers Agnes Anna Studio and Sally Torres Vega
Courtesy of Retazo
Herrero explains that the lack of resources for the ready-to-wear market in the island has created a disconnect between designers and manufacturers. “There is a big hole there,” she says. “Puerto Rico has the talent and the vision, but there is no manufacturing for [ready-to-wear] designers.”
A graduate of Moore College of Art and Design, in Philadelphia, Herrero worked at Susana Monaco and G-Star early in her career. At 25, she decided to quit her job as a creative director at an established brand and launch her own venture, Auralístudio. Throughout all of this, Herrero developed a passion for circular product development and design, a sustainable practice whereby pieces are made with longevity and responsible material sourcing in mind. (She’s taught courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons the New School for Design, both in New York, about this topic.
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Even as her career developed in New York, Herrero kept thinking of how her skills might translate to her native Puerto Rico, where she always envisioned moving to. So in 2014 she created a PowerPoint presentation to develop a new project that would combine her experience both as a sustainable designer and as an educator. She visited factories on the island to see how she could create a platform that would bridge that gap between manufacturing and design. And she found three partners to help make Retazo a reality: Ruby Dávila, a fashion business specialist, Daniel Santiago, a fashion sales executive, and Ellen Christine Colón-Lugo, a New York–based milliner and educator.
In 2017 Retazo was established. It received a $5,000 grant from the Puerto Rican government that allowed Herrero to establish the company and its workshop space. With Hurricane Maria ravaging the island in September, though, the small team she had built decided to put Retazo on hold. “Looking at all of Puerto Rico’s problems is different when you are outside,” she says.
“Once you are here, you’re swimming with everyone else, and it’s scary to think about our future.” In early 2018, though, the company won another $20,000, this time from local start-up accelerator Parallel18, as part of an initiative created to attract local entrepreneurs after the hurricane. Retazo officially launched to the public in July 2018.
Retazo supports factories by providing education and training programs to diversify their offerings and encourage ready-to-wear production. It then connects designers in and out of the island with local manufacturers, to bring that business back to Puerto Rico. Retazo has also partnered with the Sor Isolina Ferre Center, a community-focused nonprofit on the island, to create two manufacturing labs—one in San Juan and one in the southern town of Ponce—set to open in January 2019, which will focus on developing sustainable production practices.
Its initial goal was to attract at least 15 designers to be members by its official launch last month.
At press time the company has 41 clients (including Project Runway contestant Margarita Alvarez), dismissing skeptics on both sides who, as Herrero encountered, didn’t see the value of collaborating: “There was a lot of resistance from the factories at first because they didn’t see the value in working with small, local designers or producing smaller order,” she remembers.
Auralís Herrero Lugo
Courtesy of Retazo
Herrero says it was never her plan to leave Puerto Rico. “I think it’s been more difficult to come back than it was to leave at 18,” she says. She was determined, though—and that meant finding a full-time job (as a product development director at a factory in the central town of Corozal) that would allow her to focus on building Retazo without having to worry about finances. “I will continue to work full-time until Retazo can afford me,” she says. “So, for now, this helps.”
Still, Herrero’s devotion to Retazo and her homeland keep her afloat: She says her 45-minute morning commute from San Juan to the mountains of Corozal looks straight out of a postcard.
“I can’t believe I get to do this job and to live home now,” she says.
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Winners of the Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award 2020 announced online – Publications
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March 18, 2020 the list of winners and finalists of the international textile design competition Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award 2020 is published online. The results are posted on the sites solstudiodesign.com, souzlegprom.ru, intertkan.ru and in the Solstudio Textile Design groups and the Interfabric exhibition in social networks. nine0003
This year more than 400 designers from 119 cities and 29 countries took part in the competition, including: England, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, India, China, Israel, USA, Namibia, Indonesia, Puerto Rico and many others.
The competition for textile designers Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award is held by the Solstudio Textile Group and SOYUZLEGPROM with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Interfabric exhibition.
Its goal is to support talented artists and attract the attention of professionals from all sectors of the fashion industry to them. nine0003
“First place is a great joy and gratitude! For me, a professional designer who has just received a specialized education, this is also a very strong motivation. I defined the sphere of textile design as a life’s work, and I am grateful to the organizers of the competition for supporting young designers and helping to realize their abilities in the industry,” Anastasia Ivanova, the winner of the competition, shares her first impressions.
“This spring has been challenging for the industry and the world in general. But we are sure that all this will pass, and our competition will continue to open up new talents for the industry. Therefore, together with Alexandra Kaloshina and David Sha, we are now developing a new nomination and a new competition task, which will reveal more winners for us. So this year, in full accordance with folk wisdom, we will finish counting the winners in the fall, – commented the president of SOYUZLEGPROM, Andrey Razbrodin.
– Stay tuned for updates on the competition website! nine0003
International Jury Members: Mare-Ann Dunkley, Head of Design, Liberty Fabrics; David Shah, founder and editor-in-chief of Textile View, Netherlands; Elsa May, Première Vision Fashion Department, France; Isabel Wharton, Editor, Prints&Graphics WGSN, UK; Giovanni Ottonello, art director of the IED Istituto Europeo di Design; Dahbia Roux, CEO of Première Vision in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. As well as leading Russian experts in the field of textile design: Andrei Razbrodin, founder of the DARGEZ company, president of the Russian Union of Textile and Light Industry Entrepreneurs; Alena Akhmadullina, founder of the brand of the same name; Alexandra Kaloshina, founder of Solstudio Textile Group; Irina Rybaulina, Head of the Department of Art of Textile and Ornament, Russian State University. A.N. Kosygin. nine0003
Winners of the competition
1st place – Anastasia Ivanova (St. Petersburg)
Paid trip to the Premiere Vision exhibition in Paris, meeting with a representative of the fashion department of the exhibition and a special excursion program.
2nd place – Yulia Shora (Moscow)
Last year Yulia won a special nomination from Epson and received an Epson L1800 photo printer as a gift. This year, Julia took second place and receives a certificate from the Fashion Factory School for any course of study. nine0003
3rd place – Maya Abdullayeva (Munich, Germany)
Digital printing on fabric of the participant’s print collection, consisting of 10 designs of his choice, at the Solstudio Industry factory. The production is fully financed by the organizer of the competition.
The winner of the special nomination from Epson was Olga Anichkina from Belarus. Olga receives a cartridgeless Epson L1800 six-color printer.
Congratulations to the winners!
Competition website: solstudiodesign.com/. nine0003
Winners of Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award 2020 announced online
March 18, 2020 was announced the list of winners and finalists of the international competition of textile design Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award 2020, where Technopark Kalibr is an official partner.
The results are posted on the websites www.solstudiodesign.com/award/, https://www.souzlegprom.ru/, https://intertkan.ru/ and in the Solstudio Textile Design groups and the Interfabric exhibition in social networks. this year more than 400 designers from 119cities and 29 countries including: England, Italy, France, Belgium, Denmark, India, China, Israel, USA, Namibia, Indonesia, Puerto Rico and many others.
The competition for textile designers Textile Design Talents Solstudio Award is held by the resident of the Kalibr Technopark Solstudio Textile Group and SOYUZLEGPROM with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Interfabric exhibition. Its goal is to support talented artists and attract the attention of professionals from all sectors of the fashion industry to them. nine0003
“First place is a great joy and gratitude! For me, a professional designer who has just received a specialized education, this is also a very strong motivation.
I defined the sphere of textile design as a matter of my whole life, and I am grateful to the organizers of the competition for supporting young designers and helping to realize their abilities in the industry,” Anastasia Ivanova, the winner of the competition, shares her first impressions.
“This spring has been challenging for the industry and the world in general. But we are sure that all this will pass, and our competition will continue to open up new talents for the industry. Therefore, together with Alexandra Kaloshina and David Sha, we are now developing a new nomination and a new competition task, which will reveal more winners for us. So this year, in full accordance with folk wisdom, we will finish counting the winners in the fall, – Andrey Razbrodin, President of SOYUZLEGPROM, commented on the competition. – Stay tuned for updates on the competition website! nine0003
International Jury Member: Mare – Ann Dunkley Head of Design, Liberty Fabrics; David Shah Founder and editor-in-chief of Textile View, The Netherlands; Elsa May , Première Vision Fashion Department, France; Isabel Wharton , Editor of Prints & Graphics WGSN, UK; Giovanni Ottonello , art director of IED Istituto Europeo di Design; nine0049 Dahbia Roux , CEO of Première Vision in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
As well as leading Russian experts in the field of textile design: Andrey Razbrodin , founder of the DARGEZ company, president of the Russian Union of Textile and Light Industry Entrepreneurs; Alena Akhmadullina , founder of the brand of the same name; Alexandra Kaloshina , founder of Solstudio TextileGroup; Irina Rybaulina , Head of the Department of Art of Textile and Ornament, Russian State University. A.N. Kosygin.
“As always, it was very difficult to choose the winners, and I am very glad that I am not the only member of the jury making the decision. The professional level of work is growing from year to year. Great job! I would very much like to meet the finalists of the competition in person. Some of the entries are based on very strong conceptual thinking, but there are unfortunate shortcomings in the technical execution,” David Shah, founder of the international magazine Textile View, jury member, comments on the first results.
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Winners of the competition
1st place – Anastasia Ivanova (St. Petersburg)
Paid trip to the Premiere Vision exhibition in Paris, meeting with a representative of the fashion department of the exhibition and a special excursion program.
2nd place – Yulia Shora (Moscow)
Certificate from Fashion Factory School for any course of study.
3rd place – Maya Abdullayeva (Munich, Germany)
Digital print on fabric of the participant’s print collection of 10 designs of his choice at Solstudio Industry. The production is fully financed by the organizer of the competition.
Prizes in special categories were provided by the partners of the competition: companies Concept Group , Liberty Fabrics , Epson, Pantone, Kalibr technopark.
Competition website: https://solstudiodesign.com/award/
The works of the finalists can be downloaded here – https://yadi.sk/d/dVcvpi7e1XvbEg
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Solstudio Textile Group
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Solstudio Textile Group consists of three interconnected divisions.
Solstudio Textile Design – a textile design studio creates a textile pattern – drawings for fabric and sells them in 30 countries of the world, is the only permanent Russian participant in the exhibitions Premiere Vision (Paris), Intertextile Shanghai (Shanghai), Munich Fabric Start (Munich) , Indigo (New York). The studio’s drawings are displayed on the trends stands of the leading textile exhibitions and are referenced by world fashion analytics authorities such as WGSN. Employees of the company conduct lectures and educational work to promote modern textile design. The studio creates designs for its own Radical Chic brand.