HERE'S TO OUR MAKERS
Meet a few of the highly skilled professionals behind Raquel Allegra — each integral to our process, heritage, and community
Fashion Revolution week is an annual campaign commemorating the anniversary of the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh
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| Quality control experts: Ana, Edelmira, Carmen, Alma, Ruby, Miguela, & Judith (not pictured). These queens hold the key to our top-secret deconstruction process, executing seasonal shred designs to perfection, by hand | Leo, the only man of the RA sewing squad. He’s worked at our downtown studio for seven years, and is also a Taurus |
Vicki and Elena are responsible for the manufacturing of our entire production run. Basically, more than twelve thousand garments a season, all made in Los Angeles. Who run the world? ♀
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| Earth angel, Judy. She started with us in 2009 as one of our first ‘shredders’, aka a true RA OG | Ya, Holly, Leo, Xiao, & Maria, our in-house sewing squad. These superstars are in charge of sewing the first samples for each Raquel Allegra collection |
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| Helen and Charlene, our patternmaking team. These two draw the blueprints for our clothing, making sure all Raquel Allegra pieces fit beautifully | Juan, our master cutter, has been at Raquel Allegra since 2010. His scissors are always sharp |
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| Maria, the first-ever RA employee. Rewind 11 years ago, Maria helped shred t-shirts in Raquel's tiny apartment. She now manages our LA studio -- balancing everything from e-commerce procurement to assisting with sales | Jessica and Karen, our pre-production babes. Karen leads our sampling process, moving samples from concept to prototype, design room to showroom. Dovetailing Karen, Jessica manages pre-production. She hands off our beautiful samples to the production team, ensuring no detail is amiss |
Who’s responsible for all of our tie dye designs? Tie dye masters, Anton and Nicholas. This duo 'hand paints' our pieces every season. No small feat!
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| Managing our sole warehouse, Balmore ships our lovely clothing to about 200 stores a season and for all e-commerce orders globally. He spreads the RA love from Los Angeles to all over the world | Solene is our sales & ecommerce manager. Here she is in everybody’s favorite cardigan |
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