PYRATES
LIFE
BY LAURIE BENGOA
Cliché: First off, we LOVE your brand and all of your innovative
pieces. What inspired you to create PYRATES? How does your brand
reflect who you are?
Regina Polanco: Thank you for the opportunity to share the amazing
world of PYRATES smart fabrics with your readers. We are happy to hear
you love our brand! I created PYRATES because I wanted to take textiles
to the next level, creating fabrics with a little something extra.
Can you tell us more about yourself? How did you get into fashion
and design? What are some of your favorite hobbies? We want to get
a good idea of the face behind PYRATES!
I’m 26 years old and just as other Millennials, I love to travel! I have
lived in and been to many countries, which opened my eyes to the
challenges and ideas of my generation. In 2009, when I was a boarder in
Switzerland surrounded by dynamic, ambitious, young people in an
international environment, I realized something very peculiar: they all
loved to travel and all wore sportswear! The garments fit into their active
lifestyle yet, although very comfortable, their tracksuits were not so
flatteringly basic. This made me want to supply my peers with the cozy yet
stylish clothing they needed and was lacking in the industry at the time.
I’m a Law and Politics graduate, so I developed the brand’s first
designs with the help of a designer. I knew sportswear is at the core of
today and tomorrow’s fashion, yet felt that something more innovative
was missing. In parallel with the creation of the brand’s first designs, I
was reading a lot about the negative effects of today’s technology on our
bodies, such as Wi-Fi waves or the cellphones we canno