— The studio
We're building swim suits
for the long summer.
Shark is a kidswear studio based in Cairo. We cut performance swim suits the way swimwear used to be made — for movement first, decoration second — and dress them in prints kids actually want to wear.
— Founder note
The piece our own kids wouldn't outgrow.
We started Shark because we couldn't find a swim suit that survived the season. Bright prints faded by July. Cheap nylon pilled by August. The body the suit promised to fit in May was a shrinking ghost by September.
So we built one. We cut from ECONYL®— nylon regenerated from ocean waste — because we wanted the fabric's story to match the suit's lifespan. We licensed the prints kids actually love, but printed them with industrial pigment that holds against chlorine. We tested each piece on twenty kids for six months before we let one ship.
The result is the swim suit our own kids refuse to take off — and the one we hand to friends without explanation.
— The Shark studio
— What we hold to
Three things, every piece.
01
Performance first.
If a kid can't move in it, it doesn't leave the studio. Compression cut, four-way stretch, no scratchy seams.
02
Designed for the body in motion.
The print is the prize, but the cut is the contract. Every Shark piece moves with the body — not against it.
03
Ocean-positive by default.
ECONYL® regenerated nylon. Recycled packaging. A chlorine warranty so suits don't end up in landfill at first fade.
— The numbers
What every Shark piece is doing.
1,800
plastic bottles
Kept out of the ocean by each ECONYL® swim suit.
70%
lower emissions
Versus virgin nylon production, per ECONYL®'s LCA.
100%
regenerated
Our nylon is 100% recovered from ghost nets + ocean waste.
0
single-use plastic
We ship in recycled-paper mailers and cotton-twill bags.
— The fabric
ECONYL® is nylon, reborn.
Most kids swim suits are cut from virgin polyamide — petroleum spun into yarn. Shark is cut from ECONYL® instead: a regenerated nylon yarn produced by Aquafil in Slovenia.
Aquafil pulls ghost fishing nets, industrial fabric scrap, and consumer carpet waste out of the ocean and out of landfill. The waste is depolymerised back to its base molecule — caprolactam — and re-spun into a yarn that's chemically identical to virgin nylon. Stronger, often.
The yarn is the same. The footprint isn't. ECONYL® cuts carbon emissions ~70% versus virgin nylon and can be re-regenerated indefinitely without losing performance.
— What we're certified by
Independently checked.
ECONYL® regenerated
Verified by Aquafil — every yard traceable.
OEKO-TEX Standard 100
Tested free of harmful chemicals — safe for kids' skin.
Bluesign system partner
Print pigments and dyes audited for water + air impact.
— The packaging
No plastic in the box.
Every Shark piece ships in a 100% recycled-paper mailer, tied with a cotton-twill drawstring bag the kid keeps. Tissue paper is unbleached, dye-free. Care labels are printed directly onto the garment — no swing tags, no plastic clips.
The brief? If the kid throws the packaging in the bin, the bin still composts.
And if a print fades?
We replace the piece. The chlorine warranty is real — print failure within 60 days of normal use is on us. No receipt games.