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West Path features Hakuna Wear's original Rash Guard on their online store
West Path is a sustainable online hub not only producing their own products but also collaborating with brands who share the same ethical business practices. Keeping production local, West Path's products like the signature changing poncho (Hakuna Wear Founder Jessica's favorite) are manufactured close by in Baja California. The Carlsbad...
CanvasRebel Features Jessica Boynton and Her Vision and Purpose of Creating Hakuna Wear
Meet Jessica Boynton CanvasRebel features Hakuna Wear sharing the learning experiences and stories of Hakuna Wear founder, Jessica Boynton and her vision and purpose of creating a brand that ‘took care of all the worries’ so you can focus on surfing and having fun. Designed with the surfer’s needs in...
Ecothes Features Hakuna Wear as a Favorite Sustainable Swimwear Brand
Hakuna Wear Interview Ecothes is always on the lookout for ‘inspiring founders to push the conversation around sustainability forward’. In the following interview with Hakuna Wear, the founder, Jessica demonstrates she is one of those founders with the goal of Hakuna Wear is to be a swimwear brand by the...
Nami Surf Features Hakuna Wear as a Female Owned Surf Business
Surfing is the sport Hakuna Wear founder Jessica has been looking to find her whole life but little did she know exactly what it’d bring to her life. When she made the move to San Diego, she bought a surfboard before she found an apartment to rent. ‘It brought me...
Changing Tides Foundation Features Hakuna Wear in their Holiday Gift Guide
Changing Tides Foundation 2022 Holiday Gift Guide For the 2022 holiday season, the Changing Tides Foundation compiled an eco-conscious list of brands that are ‘kind to the planet, support local artists and are working to give new life to items and textiles that were once landfill-bound’. Hakuna Wear’s ‘small swimwear...
SurfGirl Magazine Features Hakuna Wear in Their 2022 Swimwear Guide
SurfGirl Magazine’s Hakuna Wear Swimwear Guide featuring the Endless Athletic Shorts and Long Sleeve Surf Suit. A brand ‘born to empower all people to embrace a life of no worries’. SurfGirl gives an in depth glimpse into the components that make up the ‘innovative and active swimwear’ that protects ‘your...
SurfGirl Magazine Features Hakuna Wear in Their 2021 Swimwear Guide
SurfGirl Magazine’s Hakuna Wear Swimwear Guide featuring the Lovina Long Sleeve Surf Suit and Cloudbreak Athletic Reversible Bikini. On a mission to empower people in the water with designs that provide ultimate comfort and the feeling of security in knowing you won’t have a wardrobe malfunction while doing the...
Nomads With A Purpose Features Hakuna Wear in their Top Swimwear Brands for Active Women
8 Best Surf Bikinis: Top Swimwear Brands for Active Women Nomads With A Purpose stacks up 8 swimwear brands, putting them to the test with the ‘hardy demands that surfing puts on your swimwear’. The Nomads with a purpose review focuses on sustainable, functional and inclusive surf bikinis that ‘absolutely...
Hakuna Title 9 Interview For Women Who Run The Show, Run Their Mouth and Occasionally Run Wild
You may remember that recently Hakuna Wear was a finalist and runner up in Title Nine’s Pitchfest. Title Nine creates and curates “the world’s best athletic clothing and women’s workout clothes, made for women who run the show, run their mouth and occasionally run wild.” They are “dedicated to...
Hakuna Wear Aloha Shirt Recycled Unisex Rash Guard
EVENT PRESS RELEASE CONTACT INFORMATION: Hakuna Wear Jessica Boynton 305-790-2050 jessica@hakunawear.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hakuna Wear Presents the Launch of the Aloha Shirt Recycled Unisex Rash Guard San Diego, CA – Hakuna Wear is launching their Aloha Shirt Recycled Unisex Rash Guard for summer on Friday, July 17, 2020, on...
Model and water women Paige of Swimwear Inspiration tries her Cloud 9 One Piece Surf Suit in the water and is on Cloud 9
Our model and water women Paige of Swimwear Inspiration surf tests the Cloud 9 One Piece Surf Suit on a cold winter day in Florida and is on Cloud 9. She writes about motivating herself to get out there and how the perfect swimsuit helped her do that. Paige says...
Surfgirl features the Cloud 9 One Piece Surf Suit and Hakuna Wear in their printed and online mag
Surfgirl features Hakuna Wear and their mission to provide functional and sexy surf and swimwear for both men and women so that you can be free to be you. Hakuna Wear writes “That means suits that solve problems. They stay in place with pockets and a key loop and are...
Lush Palm features Hakuna Wear / Worry-Free Swimwear Designed to Stay On in the Surf
Lush Palm features Hakuna Wear, a new swimwear label on a mission to make worry-free swimwear for active people. It doesn’t take a scientist to design women’s swimwear that stays on in the surf but having a scientific background when designing swimwear certainly couldn’t hurt. Lush Palm writes “The Cloud...
Hakuna Wear 1mm Cloud 9 Neoprene Alternative Surf Suit featured on 7 New Items We Love for Women’s Surf
Men’s Journal, formerly Adventure Sports Network looks at surf suits designed by female chemists, board bags made from scrap swimsuit fabric, and feminine spins on timeless board short designs. They review seven items they are loving in women’s surf featuring Hakuna Wear’s Cloud 9 One Piece Surf Suit. Men’s Journal writes...
Voyage LA wants you to Meet Jessica Boynton of Hakuna Wear in Encinitas (including her LA fashion district dream come true)
Voyage LA interviews our Founder and Designer Jessica Boynton on her love of surfing, starting the brand, and creating her dream in LA. Voyage LA asked Jessica “Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?” Jessica writes “There was a moment...
Salty Solz awards the Perissa Athletic One Piece Swimsuit 4.5/5 stars in their product review on Hakuna Wear, Eco-Friendly Swim One Piece
Salty Solz reviews Hakuna Wear, an eco-friendly swim/surf brand! They talk about the American brand, based in California and the material they use for their swimwear including the Perissa Athletic One Piece Swimsuit (from recycled fabrics and recycled plastic bottles). Salty Solz writes “I was happy to test out the Perissa One...
Sea Melon interviews our Founder in their Featured Surfer series (including her start in surfing)
Sea Melon interviews our Founder and Designer Jessica Boynton on her love of surfing and empowering women. Sea Melon writes “She has this super exciting ambition; making her recently started surf wear brand Hakuna Wear into an established brand that offers products like surf bikinis and surf suits that make...
Still Stoked interviews our Founder and Designer on Swimwear With A Pocket Full of Empowerment
Still Stoked interviews our Founder and Designer Jessica Boynton on her start into the swimwear industry, thoughts on sustainability, and following her dream. Jessica tells Still Stoked “THE TRUTH IS, THERE IS NO TRULY SUSTAINABLE FASHION, WE CAN ONLY ATTEMPT TO TRY NOT TO CREATE NEW MATERIALS BY RECYCLING AND...
Still Stoked Product Review of the Hakuna Wear Jeju Reversible High Waisted Bikini Bottom and Kare Kare Athletic Bikini Top for big boobs
Alexa Hohenberg of Still Stoked puts our Kare Kare Active Bikini Top and Jeju Reversible High Waisted Bikini Bottom to the test, sailing, free-diving and surfing. Still stoked writes “a surf bikini that has all the mod-cons we have been dreaming of. Functional and supportive to the point of becoming...
Hakuna Wear Volcanoes Recycled Board Shorts receive 4.6/5 stars and Surfd.com Editor's Choice Award
Bradley Hook from Surfd puts our Volcanoes Recycled Board Shorts to the test in this product review. They were surf tested for over a month to show durability and he rated them on performance, quality, design, sustainability, and fun factor. Surfd.com writes “I am stoked with these shorts. They’re light,...