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"The vast majority of wetsuits on sale today are made of a synthetic rubber called Neoprene. Neoprene - the commercial name for chloroprene rubber - is the product of a toxic and carcinogenic chemical process".

Here's an awesome video from science and fashion icon, Dr Karl, on the harmful effects of UV radiation on elastin in young skin. TL;DR cover your child's skin unless you want them to look like a walnut by age 30. Oh and also - Dr Karl has only ever been sunburnt twice in his entire life!

The natural rubber we use in our kids wetsuits is industry-leading. A blend of 80% FSC approved natural rubber and 20% synthetic rubber, exactly the same as Patagonia's Yulex.

Skin damage accrues over the course of a person’s life, beginning in childhood. So if we can reduce our kids overall sun exposure then we drastically reduce their chances of developing skin cancers later in life. But that shouldn’t mean keeping kids in the cupboard with an iPad and a milk arrowroot biscuit. It just means making sun smartness a positive experience that kids willingly opt into. 

We absolutely LOVE Woah Yelly. Not just because it's an awesome print made especially for us by the incredible illustrator, Johanna Walderdorff, but also because it represents so much of what Fants is about.

After a crazy successful test run last summer, we spent the Melbourne winter lockdown developing three new designs with some of our favourite artists. It has been a real mission but we're now stoked to have them ready for Spring!    

Fants commissioned Korean artist, Bang Sangho, to illustrate our first kids wetsuit. Sangho is renowned for his beautiful otherworldly illustrations and we couldn't be happier with his interpretation of Fants entering the world of wetsuits from a glorious alternate dimension.  

Not much beats a day of rockpooling and eating leftover pizza lunch under the shade of a sandstone overhang.   

We think of music like the beach. New songs are constantly arriving in waves that crash on the shore. You can sit on the sand and soak up the sounds, but you can't catch it all. Most music arrives out of earshot and gets swept into the vast ocean where it is forgotten.  Slip into your best deck shoes and join us as we set sail, out into the deep, into uncharted waters where perfect forgotten songs swirl in warm currents. Listen to the playlist here.

After eight months of being confined to Melbourne, we finally got a chance to get some much needed salt in our hair.