Our Sustainability Mission

We strive for sustainability for the people, the planet and the greater good. More than 60% of non-sustainable clothing are made from non-decomposable plastics and 87% of the fibers used for non-sustainable clothing will end up incinerated or in landfills. Sustainability in fashion can change that. Our first commitment when we began our journey was discovering sustainable, luxury fabrics for our swimwear designs. That’s when we found Carvico’s recycled, eco friendly fabrics. Carvico and Jersey Lomellina has a large selection of high end recycled fabrics made of ECONYL® yarn, a 100% regenerated nylon yarn derived from pre and post industrial waste such as discarded fishing nets found polluted in our oceans. In addition to our sustainable fabrics, all swimwear is sent in eco-friendly, compostable poly mailers and all bottoms are lined in eco-friendly hygienic liners. Our main goal is to keep learning how to be more sustainable in our practice and our products as we grow. Thank you for supporting our journey to sustainable fashion and helping protect our planet.
-74 Swim

“8 million tons of waste end up in our seas every single year.
640 thousand tons of fishing nets are abandoned at the bottom of the ocean. (data sourced from FAO and UNEP) Such alarming data tell us that, unless the situation changes, by 2050 our seas may contain more garbage than fish. We need to change our approach radically, cohabiting with Nature in the best possible way, and considering the importance of a limited resource such as water. We need to be more deeply aware of this situation and change our mentality completely.

Recycled fabrics: our Econyl regenerated

Carvico and Jersey Lomellina is one of the largest eco friendly fabric companies and, since 2016, we have been supporting “Healthy Seas”, an initiative putting together a non-governmental association and several businesses sharing a common mission: cleaning our planet waters from pollution, including the ghost fishing nets which kill so many sea creatures. Healthy Seas boasts another two-fold objective:

• collaborating with fishing communities to enforce preventive actions to reduce the pollution caused by discarded fishing nets and to find new solutions for disposing of them in a financially and environmentally sustainable way
• running some training programmes to promote the importance of more environmentally responsible choices

Thus, the fishing nets recovered, together with some other materials ( carpet fluff, tulle etc. ) are delivered to Aquafil SpA regeneration plant where, thanks to a sophisticated and complex process, the above mentioned materials are turned into ECONYL®, a new polyamide yarn boasting the same features as virgin nylon in terms of performance and quality, but with the plus of not having been produced with the use of non-renewable fossil raw materials.

ECONYL® Regeneration System!’