Meet Lauren Quinn | Ethically Made Swimwear Brand Founder

We had the good fortune of connecting with Lauren Quinn and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Lauren, can you talk to us a bit about the social impact of your business?
The House of Bromelia originally began in South America in 2018 as a brand that championed diverse partners through fair-waged design. During Covid, we took our operations one step further and moved all international manufacturing locally to California. Our goal was to continue our dedication to supplier diversity and champion our own local neighborhoods. Since 2020, Bromelia’s production is 100% manufactured in Los Angeles, California.

For Bromelia, sustainability begins on a human level. As a fully woman-owned ethically made swimwear label, we do not like to label our standards as ethical, because that means universal production practices are generally “un” ethical. But this one word succinctly sums up that our intention is about respect and brings awareness to the consumer that their purchase is a conscious one.

Alright, so for those in our community who might not be familiar with your business, can you tell us more?
Bromelia is driven by creating a product that allows a woman to step into their own skin. Additionally, in building an ethically made swimwear brand, our ethos must start at the roots and grow to the final product.

One of our biggest challenges is overcoming the emotional hurdle a woman has with her relationship to her own body. Bromelia’s constant objective in everything we do, is to create a vehicle to suit up and own it. In marketing, we seek out women who have juicy curves and radiate a confidence in their own frames, in order to promote the attitude we all aspire to. In designing, we choose product styles that don’t cut off a woman’s natural lines, but rather glide over them and share all the right angles. And even in creating our team, we look for women for whom confidence isn’t a choice, but rather something they can’t turn off. And while the work isn’t easy, our objective is so clear that the road to get there is exhilarating.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I am partial to Abbot Kinney and not just because our flagship store has been there for three years. This street is the pulse of innovation in Los Angeles fashion. It’s a neighborhood that has always been built in championing the creative and the authentic. There are no limits here. You are not just free to be, but deeply encouraged to own the skin you’re in. On Abbot Kinney, you don’t walk, you strut. Part of my weekly food musts: Rosemary Latte at Butcher’s Daughter, Gypsy Slice at Abbot’s Pizza Company, Tacos and Cerveza at De Buena Planta and Honey Lavender Ice Cream at Salt & Straw.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I did not dream of starting an ethically made swimwear label my whole life, nor did I ever receive formal training. But I have to shout out to the country of Brazil and its women as they helped me plant the fashion seed.

The brand is a love letter to both the country itself and the admirable, captivating way of how a Brazilian woman holds herself, her curves and her essence in an authentic and confident fashion that is infectious.

Brazil didn’t teach me something new, but rather she gave me the space to step into my own creative, my certainty and steadfast ways that were always innate, but never fully embraced. In Brazil, I became a company founder, a wife, a mother, and a champion of other women.

Website: bromeliaswimwear.com

Instagram: instagram.com/bromelia_swimwear

Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/bromelia-swimwear-ethically-made/

Facebook: facebook.com/bromeliaswimwear.com

Yelp: yelp.com/biz/bromelia-swimwear-venice

Image Credits
bromelia swimwear