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MurMade Swimwear is a unique brand born from Muriel's passion for sustainability and fashion in Salt Lake City, UT. She channels her creativity into every piece, ensuring that each swimwear item is hand-made with care. MurMade Swimwear strives to use 100% recycled materials, reflecting a dedication to both style and environmental responsibility.
With every design meticulously crafted by Muriel, you can feel good about looking great in MurMade.
Press
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Slug Magazine | SLUG Style: Muriel Langdon
Read full article here | June 2023
“Muriel Langdon is a Salt Lake City-based designer creating bright, elegant swim and loungewear perfect for any pool party. Langdon’s fashion sense exudes through her clothing line, Murmade Swimwear.”
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ABC4 Utah | Good Things Utah
Watch / Read here | March 2023
“Muriel Langdon and Justine Nguyen from Murmade Swimwear joined us on the show to talk all about their handmade swimsuits!”
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ShePlace | Member Spotlight
Next Gen Leaders | Read Here | January 2024
“Meet this week’s featured community spotlight, Muriel Langdon, Founder of MurMade Swimwear! Muriel Langdon is a 23 year old business owner and fashion designer of MurMade. She is a student at The University of Utah, where she is finishing up her BS in Accounting.”
Here at MurMade Swimwear one of our core values is female empowerment. Thus, naming our styles after influential women only makes sense. Read more about these women individually below.
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Scarlett Stevens
An Australian singer from the band San Cisco, The flairz, who started both of them herself. Scarlett is currently the drummer for San Cisco and has a love for vintage clothing. Expressing herself through fashion while performing is something that Scarlett is utterly grateful for. She believes that fashion and music are linked because of their abilities to captivate energy.
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Sojourner Truth
An American abolitionist and women’s rights activist in the 1800s. Sojourner was born into slavery in New York but escaped with her infant to an abolitionist family named the Van Wegnars. In 1826 she was the first woman to win a court case against a white man, after delivering one of her most influential speeches “Ain’t I a Woman”.
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Aurora Aksnes
A Norwegian singer-songwriter who began writing and dancing at the age of six. Now 10 years later, the 26-year-old has created music for hit Disney movies such as Frozen and Frozen 2. Aurora is a female activist and an advocate of human rights, racial rights, and LGBTQ+ rights.
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Donyale Luna
The first African-American supermodel to appear on the cover of British Vogue in March of 1966. As well as being featured in some of Andy Warhol’s and Federico Fellini’s films. Donyale was a professional model and actress who lead a revolution enabling diversity in the modeling world. Donyale settled down in the Tuscan countryside where she delivered her baby girl who is now, 40 years after her death, celebrating her true legacy.
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Loleta Langdon
A master Sewist, Leta Langdon spent years of her life devoted to craft and creation. After working for Bayliner, Leta began her business, Leta’s Top Shop, sewing custom boat canvases in the small town of Arlington, Washington. A beloved member of her community and family, Leta’s legacy lives on.
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Cleopatra
"Cleopatra's legacy survives in ancient and modern works of art. In the visual arts, her ancient depictions include Roman busts, paintings, and sculptures, cameo carvings and glass, Ptolemaic and Roman coinage, and reliefs. In Renaissance and Baroque art, she was the subject of many works including operas, paintings, poetry, sculptures, and theatrical dramas."