After the muss of the holidays, Kikidoll has spent the end of 2009 pouring over photos of all of the beautiful people in the world sporting a bikini on a beach, toasting up from winter’s frosty chill.

No disrespect to the luscious Rihanna seen this past weekend in an eye-popping hot pink frilled number. She looked absolutely delicious like candy from Dylan’s.

And no dissing another glamazon nearby holidaying in Barbados, Sienna Miller, who has been papped in not one but two fetching boy short/strapless bandeaux numbers with navy print, or navy denim and gingham themes. Adorable.

But the overriding choix du jour appears to be a girl’s old classic standby–the basic black bikini, or what Kikidoll lovingly has labelled for her swimwear collections as the LBB–’little black bikini’.  Like an icon from a Fellini film, as elegant as Sophia in Sicily or Mamie in the fountain, the LBB is worn by the chicest, trimmest and most svelte.

Take Demi here. Flawless and timeless. And with Ashton!

Or, stroll with insouciance like the uber cool Chloe Sevigny, on break from Big Love. Big heart to this Big winning black bikini.

Look fresh as a starlet like Kristen Cavallari of The Hills, proving black is back as the new black on the beach.

Just as the ubiquitous black turtleneck is a staple in every girl’s cache, the LBB should be in her beach arsenal, especially in these post-indulgent holiday days (too many cookies)!  Kikidoll knows how flattering black spandex can be as it flattens the bulges and trims the dimply bits by its sleight-of-hand tricksy depth of color, or lack therein! An added plus is that it ‘goes’ with everything!

So forget those day glo neons and traffic stopping brights at the beach–for year end 2009, and for the start of those well-meaning new year resolutions in 2010 it’s all about trimming back.

Go for black, like Kikidoll– here in her LBB Black Coral bikini.