slow fashion manufacturing made in Puerto Rico, USA
Retazo {Spanish for fabric scrap and big challenge} was Puerto Rico's first circular fashion platform, and Auralís founded it in 2017. Retazo's mission was to position Puerto Rico as the hub for high, near-shored, modular, high end ready to wear manufacturing. For brands worldwide interested in scaling their manufacturing from the island, that is a US territory. The business's main pillars were, educating designers and factories on circularity and fair trade, developing the designer's product sustainably, and managing its production at Retazo's vetted factories. The business closed in December 2020 due to the pandemic, and Auralis continues to help designers and factories as a consultant on a case by case basis.