LSKD Partners with Samsara Eco for Recycled Nylon Leggings

LSKD has put a 10-year bet on a material problem that has plagued activewear for years: nylon 6,6, the slick, springy fibre that gives leggings their shape, is also notoriously hard to recycle once it is tangled with spandex and sweat. The Australian brand’s partnership with Samsara Eco is set to bring recycled nylon 6,6 into key product lines from 2028, marking LSKD’s first use of regenerated fibres made from end-of-life textiles.

For Jason Daniel, the move fits the ethos that helped build LSKD from its Logan and Gold Coast roots into a global activewear label: there is always a better way to do things. That idea now lands in the most everyday part of the wardrobe, the black legging, where performance, durability and waste have long collided. If the partnership works at scale, it could reduce reliance on virgin, fossil-fuel-based nylon and shift one of fashion’s most heavily worn categories toward a more circular material flow.

Samsara Eco is not selling a vague sustainability promise. Its enzymatically recycled nylon 6,6 is part of a broader EosEco platform that breaks plastics back into their chemical building blocks so they can be remade into virgin-identical materials. The company says it can also recycle polyester and, more recently, nylon 6. It was launched out of the Australian National University with backing from Main Sequence, Woolworths Group and ANU, later raising A$54 million in Series A funding and then A$100 million in a Series A+ round led by Temasek.

That backing matters because recycled performance fibres live or die on infrastructure, not mood. Samsara Eco has already positioned Jerrabomberra, New South Wales, as the site of its first nylon 6,6 and polyester recycling plant, a sign that the company is trying to build an industrial supply chain rather than a token capsule. The larger question is how far the system can go once garments leave the studio and hit real life: abrasion, elastane blends, pilling, and the messy business of collection at end of life.

The LSKD deal also arrives in the shadow of another 10-year Samsara Eco agreement, signed with lululemon in June 2025. That partnership had already produced a world-first enzymatically recycled nylon 6,6 product sample and a limited-edition packable anorak, proof that the material can cross from lab language into apparel. But proof of concept is not yet proof of scale. The real test for LSKD begins in 2028, when the first product transitions are due and the industry finds out whether infinitely recyclable actually means repeatedly remade in the wild, or simply recyclable in theory.