Casa Muza was founded in 2018 in New York City’s Lower East Side by Puerto Rican designer Polet Guzmán. What began as a search for a creative workspace for MUZA, our in-house ready-to-wear brand, soon evolved into a storefront and studio—an intimate space for community-building through art, fashion, and design, and a platform for showcasing and selling the work of emerging artists and Puerto Rican diasporas.
In 2020, we relocated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, next to the Caribbean Social Club—known as Toñita’s—where Casa Muza grew into a curated boutique, production studio, and platform for showcasing emerging talent from Latin America and the Caribbean. After several inspiring years in New York, we closed our physical storefront in November 2024 to focus on expanding production in Puerto Rico and deepening collaborations with artisans across the Caribbean and Latin America.
In 2025, we established a permanent base in Puerto Rico—strengthening our connection to heritage and cultivating closer relationships with local artisans. Today, Casa Muza operates between Puerto Rico and New York, weaving the creative energy of both places into each piece, and creating limited-edition collections that merge cultural narrative, modern design, and a refined, sustainable approach to craftsmanship.
Polet Guzmán, a Puerto Rican artist and designer, is the founder and creative director of Casa Muza. Her journey began at the School of Fine Arts in San Juan, where she first explored fabric as a medium for wearable art. That practice grew into MUZA by Polet Guzmán—a brand deeply rooted in Caribbean culture, ancestral wisdom, and the strength of women across generations.
Today, we work between our studio in Puerto Rico, our base in New York, and a factory in Guatemala. We continue collaborating with artisans and women’s communities in Guatemala, while focusing on developing our samples and patterns in-house and producing small capsule collections. We source fabrics from the Garment District when in NYC, from Río Piedras when in Puerto Rico, and from trusted suppliers in Guatemala. While not all of our pieces are made with natural fibers, our production in Guatemala prioritizes natural materials, sustainable techniques, and textiles from family-owned mills committed to ethical, circular production.
