Kikidoll just brushed the sand off her suitcases after a week spent in South Beach, Miami for the largest, oldest and by far most prestigious of the swim shows in the world, Swim Show 2011.

Staged during the Mercedes Benz Swim Week, hotels, beach-side venues, clubs and swanky candle-lit restaurants all play host to global glitz and glitter as supermodels, celebrities, designers, buyers and press all descend to mingle over a couple of  local cocktails por costumbre– those minty/lime mojitos–at pool or beach side, while previewing next year’s fashions for swim and resort wear.

Toney hotels stage showcased fashion shows and events around the clock.  Built alongside The Raleigh, Mercedes Benz erected a tented catwalk in a number of days. Famed for its 1940′s Art Deco decor and one of the- if not the- largest and deepest shaped swimming pools on the beach, the jewel-box Raleigh screams out old Hollywood glamor and style.  Black and white photos of previous guests–Clark Gable, Janet Leigh and the beachiest babe of them all Brigitte Bardot adorn the Raleigh’s walls. Service is on first-name basis, the rooms are jazzed up for the new era of high-tech guests in soft peaches and cream. Munching on their French fries alone is pure pool-side bliss. Kikidoll test-drove a few of her 2011 pieces in the pool with her models during a local shoot there before the hub-bub began, and found it hard to leave their comfort zone.

Down the way at other hotels, The Standard, Mondrian and W, other swim events and showings were buzzing.

Sneak peeks? Neon is hot, ruffles and pretty are strutting their stuff and metallics have fizzled. Bikinis were flirty and sexy and one-pieces were cut out and away. More later, but for now safely deep-six the animal printed tank, in the deep end.

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