Candy Wetsuits a brand started up out of passion and gutts.
Candy Wetsuits is the creation of Californian Jill Anjuli Hansen, who’s life has been dedicated to surfing.
The brand was sparked into action when Hansen was at fashion school in LA, living in Newport Beach, when a Japanese wetsuit manufacturer spotted her surfing and asked her to model some of their wetsuits. This was pure bliss to Hansen’s ears after she had previously being refused sponsorship by major surf companies due to her having a punk rock surfer image. Hansen said potential sponsors would tell her ’We need her to be sweet, cute and blond like this,’”
So with the backing of the Japanese manufacturer she started up her own brand: ” Instead of someone telling me what to be or what to do, I’m starting my own brand. I’m sweet but I’m real.”
“Hansen is simultaneously a hard-edged and chill Aloha chick. She learned to glide under the code of respect alongside the boys at Waikiki, so one minute she’ll be wound up about some kook that got in her way and then the next, she gushes over how cute the families and old timer longboarders are at San Onofre beach, one of her favorite spots.” Those contradicting qualities are an asset in her designs that are both sugar and spice—using the sweetest of sweet candy colors like bubblegum pink, cherry red, apple green and grape purple for tough motorcycle jackets and sexy Bond girl bodysuits.
The candy wetsuits will stop everyone on the beach in their tracks, with tight bootie hugging shorts and beautiful bright colours how can you not stare. They not only look amazing but they are custom made in Japan with top shelf Japanese neoprene and manufacturing.
The images above are of the current range of designer wetsuits.
