About Mare Cheia Swimwear - MC Swimwear

Lorel Aurora Torres had a successful career working on Top 500 Companies like Abbott, Novartis and GSK as strategic planner/forecaster , product launch specialist and marketing executive on several positions across her 12 years in the pharmaceutical industry. Despite of having a successful career she always knew that the corporate life will have an expiration date to start the career of her dreams and fulfilled her passion create her a swimwear brand inspired in by her Caribbean roots but a purpose to enhance the female figure but feel comfortable and well fitted. She was inspired by her travels to Brazil and found the cutting-edge lycra technology where she could achieve the fit. Not until 2009 her wishes come true by taking the decision to pursue her passion to become a swimwear designer and helped by her mom a retired industrial sewing teacher with more than 30 years of experience that help established the industry in Puerto Rico back in the 70s and key friends co-founded Mare Cheia Swimwear. The first MC came from Lorel's hands that used to sew their own suits for her and her friends from their mom's garage in Arecibo, PR. Living in Puerto Rico was the perfect place to design pieces that can be functional and adapt to different body types helping to create form-fitting designs for those women that couldn't find pieces like Another wish for Lorel was to seek out artistic collaborations from local and international artist for the creation of the brand signature prints.Read their story