Zulu & Zephyr: Bondi Knit Tops and Skirts From Two Sisters

The sisters started out selling at the Bondi Beach Markets in 2013 before growing into a brand stocked in more than a hundred retailers worldwide, and the shirting here still carries that beach-to-street logic. Vintage-leaning prints and texture do the work rather than logos. It is dressing built by two people who grew up on that specific stretch of coast, not a generic resort label.

Zulu & Zephyr expanded into childrenswear in 2017 and eventually opened a flagship on Bondi's Gould Street in 2024, a deliberate full circle back to where the label started. The rest of the assortment keeps the same throughline of nostalgic prints reworked for a modern silhouette. It reads as a brand still designing for the beach it grew up on rather than chasing a generic resort look.

There is something genuinely specific about a brand built by two sisters designing around their own mother's decade of fashion, and that personal reference point keeps the prints from feeling like generic resortwear filler. The strongest pieces here lean hardest into that vintage-print identity. Where it flattens out is in the plainer basics, which could belong to almost any swim label and do not carry the same story. For a lighter way to carry Zulu & Zephyr’s print-led sensibility into the rest of my closet, I’d explore dresses and cold-weather knits.