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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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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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 This coming weekend April 25 in Kaneohe a bevy of beautiful island girls will compete  for the state crown of Miss Teen United States for Hawaii.  There’s more than a diamante encrusted crown and an armful of bouquets  to claim at this pageant, an affiliated daughter of the  Mrs United States pageant.

The hopeful teen winner, judged and hand-picked from dozens of entrants will reign for one year as an ambassadress of aloha for these islands and more importantly will represent the state of Hawaii in the national competition for Miss Teen United States in July in Las Vegas replacing the 2009 teen queen Courtney Turner from South Carolina.

Expected to compete in the world pageant next month and also to crown her successor, the current teen queen from Hawaii for 2009 Sheryl Wolfe tragically and suddenly died April 20 after suffering a massive brain hemorrhage after collapsing at her Mililani high school last week. In a split second her dream has shattered and caused great sadness in her circle of family, friends and admirers. Remembered for her sunny attitude and kind words she made her mark more indelible by donating her organs, enabling at least 4 recipients to have an improved chance at a healthier life.

Her ‘sister’  in the pageant, runner-up  Florence Villanueva will compete in Sheryl’s place wearing her gown and swim suit, and will hand over the symbolic duties when she crowns Sheryl’s replacement this Sunday. Joy and sadness will be tinged with the bittersweet of winning and losing but none more precious a loss than a beautiful teen queen struck down in her prime.

Aloha Sheryl.

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.