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Back at the beach during Miami Swim Week, the sand was hot and the nights hotter. Records showed it was the hottest days ever registered in Miami and talk of heat indices well over 100 degrees was routine.  Never before did those vitamin laced waters go down so quickly as models fainted and make-up melted under the glare of the relentless sun.

Nights were not much cooler and even though cafes and ocean spot venues were throbbing, everyone sought out a fan or a cooling AC blast. Sushi and blue martinis were tucked into like camp food, and maybe it was the heat, but no one felt a thing, until, of course, the morning after when the rush for a Starbies was legion.

With the cameras clicking and the film crews rolling designers threw pool parties and trotted their new lines for 2011 in the sand–in stillettoes.  And these were not shoes made for walking. Not even a sliver of those ubiquitous Loubie red soles could be seen as the models sank in up to their gladiator straps.

The nightlife music in Miami is everywhere and the Latin undertone so engaging, like a heart beat. With the in-your-face combo of food, sun, heat and urban rhythyms, Miami wears a wahine out.

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Hau’oli la hanau is Hawaiian for Happy Birthday.

In the islands the big day is call for a luau, or a potluck buffet, where the whole ohana and extended friends and family hele over for the Kailua pork and trimmings.

Leis are bestowed, pressies made and given. Meles are sung. And everyone makes and takes plate, or the left-overs, with them.

Today is Kikidoll’s friend CC’s birthday.  Let’s celebrate. Pass the Mai Tais!  It’s gonna be a rockin’ night.

Last week, on neighbor island Maui, Letarte Swimwear celebrated its 10 year birthday with stylish liliko’i Cosmos and pupu. Congratulations to another local swimwear company with such a strong showing in Sports Illustrated Swim.

Next week another milestone, another birthday for gorgeous beach girl Kalena.  Let’s go party, girls, in our designer swimwear bikinis!

Me encanta Surfing Magazine‘s latest preview video of girls acting cute and stuff in the edgiest, rocking-est swimwear for 2010.

Newcomers Mikoh Swimwear and Kikidoll are in good company with more established bikini lines like L*Space, B Swim and Insight.

With its saucy paso doble music background by Joe Arroyo, clips of Spanish fort ruins in Old San Juan, and luscious lovelies sipping Cuba Libres, the national drink of Puerto Rico, we can overlook the intermittent rain in the shoot. After all, swimwear is meant to get wet, claro?

Look for this special issue on stands 2 March.

Kikidoll spied with her little eye Elin Nordegren Woods (or her twin?) in a bikini this week.

The urban myth and every new mother’s nightmare that all Swedish au pairs are gorgeous but deadly blonde bombshells is not put to bed by these achingly lovely identical twin sisters Elin and Josefin.

Born to a politician mother and a radio journalist father the Nordegren girls arrived on New Year’s Day 1980. With an older brother Axel, they spent an idyllic childhood in Waxholm a coastal village near Stockholm, though the parents had separated, with the father Thomas relocating to Washington DC.

As young teenagers the flaxen-haired twins dabbled in modelling but largely to earn additionl funds to pay for their educations.  Josefin eventually went on to qualify as a lawyer while Elin studied child psychology.

Their modelling though short-lived proved to leave a stunning catalogue behind.

Elin particularly looked fetching in swimwear and posed in several memorable shots wearing a white bikini, an school bus yellow one and another one in a green jungle print.  Elin could have squared off against those Angels at Victoria’s Secret and the other super-uber-babes at Sports Illustrated Swim if she’d stayed the course.

 

Instead, she and Josefin hit the fairway and went to work as childminders for Swedish pro-golfer Jesper Parnevik where Elin ultimately met and later married the most famous pro golfer in the world, Tiger Woods.

Ever lovely, Elin is more likely than not to be found today playing with her two adorable children Sam and Charlie than in a bikini.

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Kikidoll spied with her little eye Elizabeth Hurley this week at the launch of her new swimwear line for affordable well-designed Spanish fashion house MANGO.

Now married and retired from acting, Hurley has somehow defied the gods and kept as trim as the sails she is rigging in her photos of the new line.  She revealed just how she managed to keep fit, saying she relied on ‘nice photographers and a little digital enhancement. I like a certain amount of retouching like anybody’, she admitted.

Airbrushing or not, the released photos of her modelling her new line show an amazing figure for a 44-year old mother of a six-year old son.

‘Miss Kensington’ appeared demurely in a hot pink dress along side 2 bikini-clad models at the premiere. The next day, in Madrid, she continued the shy-girl approach and wore another dress instead of donning her own creations.  She was heard to have said she dreaded swimwear photo shoots like anyone, and still had two more to go, up ahead. Dread.

Known for her ‘belle poitrine’, Ms. Hurley first caught the world’s attention in 1994 at the film opening, pinned together by giant gold safety pins in a Versace curve-loving black gown, her ample bosom on display, as she was ushered in by then tight squeeze Hugh Grant in his global box office smash Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Estee Lauder grabbed her, and by 1995, plucked, plumped and honed, she became their newest ‘face’ up until 2001. While at Lauder, ‘Pleasures’, ‘Intuition’ ‘Beautiful’, ‘Dazzling’ and ‘Sensuous’ among others were created and launched as she fronted those campaigns.  She later said of her modelling days, “I was far from an ingénue, having had my first modeling job at 29.” Today, Elizabeth continues her 14th year on a non-exclusive basis under contract with Lauder.
 
Films followed her modelling, such as two Austin Powers ones in 1997 and 1999, but she segued into fashion, launching her own swimline by 2005. Last year she presented the first capsule collection of 12 pieces for MANGO.

This year, there are shades of hottest fuschia, soft peach, popping ‘mango’, cherry red, brown and deep plum, in bikinis, two pieces, one pieces and tunic cover-ups that are mid-priced while still trendy, such as the white cutout swimsuit $50, gold cuff $22, textured cuff $50, fuchsia, tangerine, brown, cherry bikini $70 each, kaftan $140, bag $44, plum bikini $40.

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