Fashion Articles | News | and Trend your style - Dressing Up Your Swimwear

Of course, all swimwear isn't for swimming in. For any fashioniser beaches, pools and resorts are equally about socialising and mojitos as they are about cultivating the perfect tan; face facts, we're not always there to get our toes wet.

Enter a Spring/Summer season where no beach-wear will be complete without accessorizing. And the one key trend to use? The sheer trend.

While he gave us some of the season's sexiest bikinis by way of label Hervé Léger, with his own label Max Azria relied on the sheer trend (1 & 2) as a way of setting off otherwise lackluster swimwear; a good thing to note if you intend to recycle pieces from last year. Gottex one upped him however, with their gold, floral halter sheer slip which was a stand out of New York Fashion Week's swimwear fashions (3).

Hats off though to Milly by Michelle Smith Spring/Summer 2009 who sent her models down the runway with beachwear accessorizing perfect for 2010's bohemian fashion trend.

Fashion Articles | News | and Trend your style - Dsquared2 2010 cut-away bikinis

Dsquared2's Spring/Summer 2010 collection gets 2010 bikini trends spot on with three different interpretations of the cut-away bikini trend;

They're nowhere near as sexual as those featured in Hervé Léger by Max Azria's Spring/Summer 2010 collection, but will still be a knock-out on the beach in 2010.

Elizabeth Hurley Shows Off Her Pins

If there is digit thing that Elizabeth Hurley does well its plunging necklines and, as on this occasion, high dress splits; a countenance Hurley has been rocking for decades. There are a some different structure to wear the high split dress, subtle peekings of digit leg through a split achievement meet above the knee, or peak skin with a split above portion high, no prizes for guessing which digit Hurley is a fan of. Spotted here at a winter fundraiser she matches the gown with what appears to be faux fur.

Rental Recommendation: Valentino; The Last Emperor

Giancarlo Giammetti stands discreetly at a coffee shop in the Rome airport terminal. He orders an espresso, discreetly summons his bodyguard to pay, then waits impatiently in his tan traveling coat and dark suit to board his private plane. He, a chef, a valet, two butlers, five pugs, and a maid are waiting for one of Italy's most famous men: Valentino Garavani.

Matt Tyrnauer's film, Valentino: The Last Emperor, chronicles the daily life of the two men and their incredible talents: fashion and business. Valentino's creative eye has allowed him to design thousands of dresses for everything from the runway to the closets of Jackie O and Audrey Hepburn. And even in the midst of his retirement, the man who humbly claims that he "is a disaster at everything else in life" remains an international icon, just as he has been for the past 45 years.

Uniqlo by Testino

I ripped this ad out of the Times Magazine last Sunday & kept it on my dining room table all week.

I couldn't stop examining it. Kind of like, "the 'it' girls do Narnia," or something...
Karlie, Lily, Erin, Coco, et al shot by Mario Testino....you do the math.
What do we think? 

Regardless, they're inspiring me to venture out to Colorado & watch the skiing {note, "watch"},

sprawled out on a comfortable couch in a luxurious ski lodge, sipping warm hot cocoa,

obviously wearing Uniqlo, Heattech F/W 2009...head to toe.

photos via: design scene

could you ever hate kate?

i certainly couldn't.
nope, not ever. never ever ever.

photos via iconology; top four by mario testino, next three by juergen teller, last by chuck close