Fall 2012 Fashion

Fashion Rio, the Marvelous City's five-day-long summer 2013 fashion extravaganza, the choices are endless.

Fancy pairing your string bikini prime with spandex pants hung with rows of seductively dangling fringe, which offer such a lot additional coverage than the country's ancient "fio dental" or "dental floss" bottoms? Rio's got simply the factor for you.

Toying with the concept of kitting out your two-piece with a sequence mail sheath emblazoned with a palm tree?

Bikinis are Brazilian designers' bread and butter, thus whereas their winter collections tend to fall flat, with half-hearted makes an attempt at outerwear, summer reliably sizzles. and also the southern hemisphere summer collections that may hit the beach this returning January were no exception.

Sao Paulo-based label Triya served up the season's most eye-popping choices, a psychedelic rainbow that broke the beachwear mould. Beyond the fringed pant bikini, the brand's brainchild, were small bottoms paired with long sleeve spandex primes cropped short to point out off the models' abs and a zebra-printed bandeau with sprouted top style an ankle length skirt in aubergine silk with a daring slit up one facet.


Swimsuits additional in name than in operate, several of Triya's offerings gave the look of what you may wear to an ultra-chic beachside rave thrown by a billionaire. Putting aside the inevitable inconveniences of carrying a flowing silk ball robe to the beach, the sole downside to the wildly artistic offerings were the bizarre tan lines they'd make certain to go away.

Cia. Maritima brought out the large guns - Victoria's Secret angel Izabel Goulart among alternative Brazilian-born supermodels - to point out off its teeny-weeny bikinis. Goulart rocked the catwalk during a leopard print string bikini fitted with a horny spider's internet of skinny yellow straps. Aline Weber, a daily on prime runways in big apple and Paris, on a one-piece and a cute cap sleeves and daring cutouts at the midriff. The pineapple prints gave a mouthwateringly tropical bit to the toothsome assortment.

With its multi-ethnic family vibe, which showed form of Abercrombie & Fitch factor going, however at a similar time felt additional authentically Brazilian than several of the week's alternative shows, most of that featured simply a sprinkling of nonwhite models.