Collection № 04 · Meltemi

# Cut for salt.
Sewn for sun.

Swimwear made slowly on the Ligurian coast from regenerated nylon, built to outlast summers, tides, and the hotel pool you were not strictly a guest of.

UPF 50+salt-tested

## The Meltemi lookbook

Named for the dry summer wind that flattens the Aegean by afternoon. Three looks, two prints, one long season.

Look 01 · parasol lines, Spiaggia di Levante
Print · “Shorebreak”, four inks
Look 02 · the quiet under the surface
Look 03 · hotel pool, seven a.m.
Print · “Undertow”, coral thread

## In the water now

Everything below is sewn in editions of a few hundred. When a colour is gone it waits for next summer, like the rest of us.

### The Ondine

One-piece · low scooped back

Our first cut and still the one we reach for. Holds its line from first length to last.

$148

### The Riva

Two-piece · tie sides

Top and bottom sold as a pair, sized separately. Stays put through a proper dive.

$132

### Noon Goggles

Mirrored · anti-fog

For the glare hours. Split-seal gaskets, no raccoon rings before lunch.

$38

### The Meridian Towel

Woven cotton · 90 × 170 cm

Loomed dense, hemmed flat, dries before you do. Sand shakes out in one flick.

$56

## Fabric & fit

Every Cerulean piece is knitted from Aqualith™, a regenerated nylon spun from recovered fishing nets and carpet offcuts. It arrives on our cutting tables in Sestri as a dense, matte knit that holds its colour through two hundred and forty hours of chlorine testing, roughly three summers of daily lengths.

We cut two ways. Low tide sits lighter: higher leg, open back, for floating and warm bays. High tide is our training cut: locked seams, full back, straps that stay crossed at the flip turn. Both are sewn flat so nothing chafes at kilometre three.

Offcuts go back into the loop; last season we returned 312 kg.

Regenerated nylon
  78%
Elastane
  22%
Sun protection
  UPF 50+
Chlorine tested
  240 hrs
Sizes
  XS to 3XL
Cuts
  Low tide / High tide

## Care, in five slow steps

A suit is a small machine for holding you together at speed. Treat it like this and it will do ten seasons.

1. 1

   ### Rinse before you rest

   Fresh, cool water within the hour: salt and chlorine keep working long after you stop swimming.

2. 2

   ### Hands, not machines

   A basin, a drop of mild soap, a gentle press. Never wring; twisting is what ages elastane, not swimming.

3. 3

   ### Dry flat, in shade

   Lay it on the Meridian, roll once, then flat over a rail out of the sun. Direct heat fades a print in a season.

4. 4

   ### Mind the rough edges

   Pool copings, pier ladders, velcro straps: snags love a fine knit. Sit on the towel; that is what it is for.

5. 5

   ### Let it rest a day

   Elastane recovers overnight. Two suits in rotation will outlast four worn back to back.

## Where we swim

Five stretches of water we know well enough to publish. The temperatures are what we measured, not what the tourist board would like them to be.

Water Where Temperature Season
Baia dei Saraceni Finale Ligure 19–24°C May to October

Flat by seven, busy by ten. Enter off the left-hand rocks.

Punta Chiappa Camogli 17–23°C June to September

Deep straight off the shelf. The current runs west after noon.

Lido di Sestri Sestri Levante 18–25°C May to October

Our own bay. Two buoys, four hundred metres apart.

Cala Cipolla Sardinia 20–26°C June to October

Warmest water we publish. Shallow for a long way out.

Bagni Blu Genova Nervi 16–22°C All year, if you insist

The winter swim. Somebody is always already in.

Lido di Sestri, 06.40. The near buoy is two hundred metres.

## Made in Sestri

Eleven people in a first-floor room above a chandlery, four streets back from the water. Every suit is cut, sewn and finished here, which is slower than the alternative and the reason we only manage two collections a year.

The seams are flatlocked rather than overlocked: the join sits flush with the cloth instead of standing proud of it, so there is nothing to rub at kilometre three. It takes about four times as long and it is the only part of the process we will not move.

Open to visitors on the first Saturday of the month, if you ring first.

## Size & fit

Measurements in centimetres, taken on the body rather than on the garment. Torso is the loop from shoulder, through, and back.

Size Bust Waist Hip Torso
XS 78–82 60–64 86–90 58
S 82–86 64–68 90–94 60
M 86–92 68–74 94–100 62
L 92–98 74–80 100–106 64
XL 98–106 80–88 106–114 66
XXL 106–114 88–96 114–122 68

Between two sizes, size down for High tide and up for Low tide.

## Before you order

### Which cut should I order?

If you swim lengths or race, take High tide and your usual size. If you swim to float, read a book and get wet, take Low tide. Between the two, the torso length is the thing that changes, not the width.

### What happens between sizes?

Size down for a training fit, up for comfort. The knit gives about a centimetre in the water and takes it back when it dries.

### Will chlorine finish it?

Eventually, as it finishes everything. Aqualith holds colour through two hundred and forty hours of testing, which is about three summers of daily lengths. Rinse cold and it will outlast that.

### Do you take returns?

Thirty days, unworn, hygiene strip intact. Post it back in the bag it came in; the bag is the return envelope, which is why it looks like that.

### Do you make anything for men?

Trunks in the same two cuts, from spring. The waistband took eleven goes and is still not right.

## The Water Club

One letter a month: sea temperatures we trust, a swim worth travelling for, and first call on new editions. No sales voice, ever; we are usually in the water by eight.

Your email

1,900 swimmers already float here. Leave whenever the water gets cold.

## Where we wash up

Six shops we would visit even if they did not carry us. Call ahead for sizes; small editions travel unevenly.

- Baia Baia Lisbon
- The Swim Library Los Angeles
- Sonnenbad Zürich
- Tide & Co.Sydney
- Mizu Mizu Tokyo
- Salt Supply St Ives