Journal

Salt, Sun, Chlorine

How a swim short lives for years. Three enemies, four habits.

The Second Life of a Fishing Net

How a garment gets unbuilt to the molecule and built back. Chemistry, not virtue.

The First Swimmers

The oldest picture of a swim sits in one of the driest places on earth.

Island to Island

You never change clothes. That is the whole sport.

Club 55, Pampelonne

A storm, a borrowed oven, and seventy years of refusing to become something else.

Before the First Stroke

Water starts working on the body at the waist, before the swimming does.

Proudly Not Made in France

We make our clothes in the Indus Valley, where cotton has been woven for four thousand years.

The Long Lunch

The Mediterranean diet is not a shopping list. It is a table, with people at it.

One Breath

The record book opens in 1950. The work is at least three thousand years older.

A Short History of the Swim Short

The garment we make had to be legalized. This is not a metaphor.

Three Hours, One Pair

Inside the Karachi studio, hand by hand.

Sounds of Silence

Every swim brand shoots the beach. We drove into the Sahara instead.