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How it all started

MYMARINI was born from the love of nature, surfing, and the sea. MYMARINI’s founder and designer, Mareen Burk, took time off from her professional life in 2012 to travel and fully dedicate herself to surfing. In her search for sustainable swimwear that wasn’t just suitable for surfing but was also modern and elegant, Mareen realized how far conventional swimwear was from being resource-friendly and produced under fair working conditions. She wanted to change that – for herself, society, and the environment. She wrote the first business plan while she was still traveling. Once Mareen got back to Germany, she founded the sustainable swimwear label in Hamburg in 2013.

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2013 Mareen founds the sustainable swimwear label MYMARINI.
2015 MYMARINI is featured in "Brigitte" magazine – public awareness rises overnight, and the company grows.
2016 Annette, Mareen's mother, takes over the logistics department and from now on MYMARINIs products are shipped from Triberg in the Black Forest.
2017 Better together: Willi, Mareen's partner, becomes a partner at the company.

For the first time ever, MYMARINI is represented at fashion fairs in Berlin and Paris.

A good move: cooperation with a Swiss department store begins – it’s remained one of MYMARINI's biggest retailers to date.
MYMARINI Retreats begin: these retreats are the perfect choice for clients to immerse themselves in the MYMARINI lifestyle – including surfing, yoga, and delicious food.
2018 Opening of the flagship store in Hamburg.
Our shipment department moves to a new warehouse in the black wood forest.
MYMARINI is now available in Vienna at one of our first retailers "Amour Fou".
2019 Lia starts as the first employee and enriches the company with her expertise.
2020 The MYMARINI family keeps growing. By the end of the year, twelve employees are part of the company.
The collection is expanded and MYMARINI now offers organic cotton ‘Retreat Wear.’
More space is needed: the office moves to the “Piano Forte Fabrik” in the heart of Hamburg.
2021 The first MYMARINI magazine is published.
Several new collections are launched. There is the swimwear collection Swim Apparel, summer styles for casual beach days and MYMARINI also expands the range to include an underwear collection made from residual material fabrics as well as a new LOUNGEWEAR collection made from TENCEL™ Lyocell.
By now, 17 employees are part of the MYMARINI team.
The contract for our new flagship store with 180m² is signed.
MYMARINI donates 20.227 euros to social projects and charitable organizations in 2021.
2022 By now, 26 employees are part of the MYMARINI team.

We open our new Flagship Store with 190m² space to display all our collections.
Thanks to you we raised 11.000€ donations for the people in Ukraine! All donations are split 50:50 to „Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft“ and „Aktion Deutschland Hilft“.
We are pround that around 90% of our collections are certified as groundwater-neutral.
We are sponsoring the first Girls Surf Camp for 20 girls in Denmark in cooperation with The Social Surfclub e.V.
Our MYMARINIs are sold in almost 100 retailer stores all across Germany.

The second MYMARINI Magazine is released
2023 With the start of the Take-Back pilot project, we accept all MYMARINI garments that you no longer wear, regardless of collection or where you purchased them. Our aim is to ensure that our products are sustainably and responsibly recycled.