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April turned it’s nose up over the weekend and May popped out like a Springy jack-in-the-box. Banish winter and its slashings of wet, May is here in all its Springtime allure and abundance and promise of gorgeousness.
The light is clearer, the air is fresher and, of course, the sneak peeks of summer are everywhere, but none so where as much as on the fingernail sliver of sand and sea off the southern French coast stretching from St. Tropez to Monaco, its crown jewel in the center, Cannes, glistening like the Hope diamond in a tiara, beckoning and brightening all things lush and beachy.
In May, on the 11th, the Film Festival in Cannes hosts the globe’s bronzed and the beautiful, the veterans and the vedettes, and the tone of the coming international summer beach scene is set in Cannes.
It was in Cannes that the world’s first-ever worn bikini was unveiled.
It was in Cannes that the doyenne of the forme feminine–Brigitte Bardot– was first ‘created’ as God’s gift to Men.
It was in Cannes that ‘going topless’ on the beach began (and continues!)
It was in Cannes that playboys and supermodels cavorted and films and deals were made, and contracts broken, and a few hearts along the way, too!
Holding court at La Croissette, would-bes, wannabees and It Girls have held center stage for over half a century, 64 years to be exact. In Bardot’s era the sweetly demure gingham checked demi-balconette push up bra bikini made schoolgirls blush and grown men worship a teenaged real-life Lolita goddess. Capri trousers, mid-riff peasant tops and hippie sandals still abound several generations later, and of course, that same style Bardot-esque bikini, re-worked is omnipresent!
Related articles
- Seeing stars at Cannes Film Festival (inside-digital.blog.lonelyplanet.com)
- The stars of Cannes (guardian.co.uk)
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Ah, Coachella! You appear in the Spring like a harbinger of all the wondrous offerings that musical festival devotees love.
California sunshine, a plethora of juicy music and the spoiler-alert for all summer festival fashion to follow!
This year Coachella, you did not disappoint. The weather behaved, the attendees behaved and the best surprise for all the BoHo princesses and Hippie goddesses was that bikinis behaved as tank tops (at least the top portion allowed for maximum style, coverage and tanning!)
Add to the de rigeur bikini some native American lashings like feathers entwined in the hair, or better, a feather headband cum bonnet, some amazeball bone/skeletal jewellery bits, the UOD–cut-off jean short-shorts– and Havis–and, presto! You are ready now for the Queen Bee of summer music festivals, Glastonbury.
We’ll have to see what mercurial Kate is going to trot out in this summer. (And we don’t mean the newly-minted Duchess, either!) La Moss always sets us all straight (and dashing back to the knock-off shops/sites to get Her Royal Festival Queenliness’s latest look).
Whether it is macrame ponchos, 20′s beaded fringed vests or feather capes, we will all emulate the look.
Just don’t forget the Wellies. Glasto is predictably a mudslide slim with nary a blue horizon.
At least in your bikini you won’t be feeling out of place to be drenched!
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- Wardrobe Oxygen: How to Dress for Coachella and Other Music Festivals (savings.com)
- From Catwalk to Coachella: Fashion Week Accessory Trends Spotted at Indio (marieclaire.com)
- YouTube Streaming Live Coachella 2011 (socialtimes.com)
Spring is springing up and the sun is shining on the beaches.
Banish the sweaters and treggings, and get out those teeny tiny eeny meany mine-y string bikinis.
Better yet, grab a copy of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 in advance of the first beach outing, and in some 20o pages, you can drool over the array of swimwear that is coming to a boutique near you soon. The 2011 collections of the world’s most coveted bikinis and suits are gorgeously photographed on what might be the most perfect 17 female forms on the planet.
Kikidoll has 4– count ‘em– 4 bikinis of her new 2011 collection in this SI Swim issue!
The mag and Kikidoll’s Aqua Coral String Bikini both helped to launch the rookie of the year, Kate Upton, with her abundantly ample charm, into the spotlight. Kate appears on the cover as ‘Kate the Great’ and none would disagree!
Five year veteran of SI Swim, Julie Henderson wore two of Kikidoll’s bikinis in the issue, both on location in Fiji. Julie said in her video interview that she liked shooting those scenes with the grass skirt the best of all her looks. Here she is in Kikidoll’s Hibiscus Kapa String Bikini–and grass skirt!
After all her twirling around and hula lessons, Julie looks more comtemplative at sunset stretching out her nearly 6 foot native Texan frame against a curvy palm in Kikidoll’s Coral and Tiki Halter Balconette Bikini.
And on Kikidoll’s home turf, SI Swim photographed its final location shoot in Hawaii nei.
They had intended to only film video there, but apparently with its neon theme, the paradisical setting, the uber-models themselves and the photographer, Bjorn Iooss, son of SI Swim vet Walter Iooss, he fortuitously decided to take a few still snaps. Good thing he did–one ended up on the cover with cat-eyed Irina Shayk!
And here is Alyssa Miller in Maui, another bombshell rookie with the looks of a 1940′s starlet, wearing Kikidoll’s Neon Shock Cutaway 1-piece.
Like the Geico ad, you’d have to had been living under a rock not to have seen, heard or known about the eponymous launch of the much twitted and long-awaited mag, such was the clatter (er, twitter) on the boards, on the TV, on building-sized posters, subway ads, iPad and iPhone apps–well, there’s even a 3D Sony Playstation video. Of course! We are all living in the social network!
From one splendorous tropical beach to another–with sites such as Singapore, Fiji, Maui, Boracay and the British Virgin Islands–and themes of corals and oranges, seaglass blues and greens, Oriental koi pond gardens, earthy animal and botanical prints and acid candy colored neons, the fashion shorthand for beach attire for this coming season is: 1) tinier the better, 2) bold colors matter, 3) strings rule, and 4) embellishment is a must. Oh, and tanned and toned–essential accoutrements.
And now, some 30 days away ( April 5) from now, Surfing Magazine launches its laid-back, insoucciant version of the best swimwear available in its stand-alone Swim issue. More au naturel but nonetheless glamorous in its trademarked kicked-back way, Surfing took its beach beauties to the Dominican Republic for its shoot this year. Channeling an Austin Powers palette of bold 60′s psychedelic prints in neons and pop art tones of oranges, yellow and tans, the mag never veers far away from its board-based roots, featuring real bikinis that real surfergirls can really surf in. Like, really!
With its edgy video teaser by Victor Pakpour and sneak peeks photos coupled with beachy crochet giveaways in the lead-up, Surfing is bringing up the rear–literally–from SI Swim‘s buzz on beach bikinis.
Word out is hitched up, ruched up and hiked up bikini bottoms are the be all, END all for this summer!
Really!
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- Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition: The Battle of the Bikini Brands (foxnews.com)
- Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011: Meet New Swimsuit Model Kate Upton (bleacherreport.com)
Julie Henderson in Kikidoll Coral and Tiki Balconette in Fiji
Kate Upton in Kikidoll Aqua Coral Branch Bikini with star fish
Kate Upton in Kikidoll Aqua Coral Branch Bikini in Boracay
Julie Henderson in Kikidoll Kapa Bikini with grass skirt
Julie Henderson in Kikidoll Kapa Bikini
Julie Henderson in Kikidoll Kapa String Bikini in Fiji
Julie Henderson in Kikidoll Kapa Bikini and hula skirt
Alyssa Miller in Kikidoll Neon Shock Cutaway Swimsuit
Alyssa Miller in Kikidoll Neon Shock Cutaway Swimsuit in Hawaii
Kikidoll featured 4 Hawaiian bikinis from her ‘Honolulu Honi’ collection 2011 on 3 of the world’s most gorgeous supermodels in sublime locations of Fiji, Philippines and of course Hawaii nei for the much-lauded and long-anticipated ‘Academy Awards of Swimwear,’ Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 issue launched 3 days ago amid speculation as to who would grace its cover.
Flanked by 9 other perfect #10 models, exotic Russian beauty Irina Shayk was told live on the David Letterman Late Show on Valentine’s Eve complete with the customary unveiling of a skyscraper-sized version of the cover in still-wintry New York.
Tens of thousands of miles away in those paradisiacal tropical climes, the 17 models and uber-devoted SI editors, headed up by veteran Diane Smith, with Senior Editor MJ Day and Associate Editor Darcie Baum had spent the better part of the last 8 months filming and snapping for the multi-media editions of the magazine. One journey required 40 hours of travel and the body painting of the 5 rookies took hours and hours–some 24 for one brave girl- under the brush and lens of the world’s most talented team. SI’s artistic eye crafted a storyboard that depicted faraway islands, tropical aquamarine seas with colorways of peachy skin corals, hot house oranges, sea foam greens and deep-water blues.
Julie Henderson, a long tall Texan and veteran of SI Swim for five years, is wearing coral and pink ‘Hibiscus Kapa’, a Polynesian tribal print in a classic string style. While on Fiji she was playful with the woven grass skirts of the islands effecting her own swirling hula. On the same shoot she wore Kikidoll’s Coral and Tiki Gods print Halter Balconette on a deserted wind-swept beach under a curvy palm tree and a setting Pacific sun.
Kate Upton, at 18 the youngest model in this line-up and a rookie for SI, as a Florida girl was right at home in Kikidoll’s angel skin coral and crystal beaded Aqua and White Coral Branch print Bikini on the beaches of Boracay, Philippines. Nonchalantly, she plucked two willing starfish to stand-in for the string bikini top. Voted ‘Rookie of the Year’ creamy dreamy gorgeous Kate already stars in Guess ads and models Beach Bunny lounge wear, too.
Another rookie with serious eyebrows and raven haired looks that recall drama icons of the 40′s, Alyssa Miller looks every bit slated to bloom under SI’s guidance. She wears Kikidoll’s Neon Shock Cutaway Swimsuit with mesh halter showing curves in all the right places. Alyssa was filmed in Hawaii, homeland of Kikidoll.
All Kikidoll suits seen in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 can be seen in its magazine, web edition and videos/apps, and are available for pre-order on www.kikidoll.com
Related articles
- A Few Minutes With SI Swimsuit Issue Rookie Alyssa Miller (withleather.uproxx.com)
- Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011: Meet New Swimsuit Model Kate Upton (bleacherreport.com)
- Julie Henderson: Rolling Around In The Sand Feels Like Being A Sugar Donut (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit video of supermodel Julie Henderson in Kikidoll Coral Tiki Halter bikini
She’s such a bikini girl! And she says she likes her bikinis ‘the tinier the better’
Right after Julie Henderson says the mantra of all beachgirls, she is photographed in Kikidoll’s Coral Tiki Halter Balconette bikini by a palm tree.
Hope this brightens your day– Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue for 2011 is launched the day after Valentines on 15th February, with pre-order available at Barnes & Noble.
Watch the Late Show with David Letterman the night before, Valentines night, after you smooch with your sweetheart over a romantic meal–10 of the 17 supermodels will be on air as they announce live the model who will grace the eponymous cover.
Julie likens herself to a sugar donut rolling around in the sand–sounds yummy, no?!
