Back from the first ever Mediter­ranean Cruise Cou­ture Line pre­sen­ta­tion Lau­ren Elaine, greets us to a start of sum­mer with the debut of her Black Label SWIM Col­lec­tion at La Vida Hol­ly­wood. With La Vida’s tran­quil essence of South­ern Spain set­ting the atmos­phere guest with cham­pagne at hand, stir from their social­iz­ing in awe as beau­ti­fully tanned mod­els present the first sneak peek into Lau­ren Elaine’s 70’s inspired cou­ture biki­nis, del­i­cate resort wear and swim cover-​​ups flaunt­ing a gen­er­ous help­ing of skin and unique swimwear. The audience’s eyes were glued to the can­dle lit run­way brush­ing off the light­ning effects by the media pit. Cap­ping the evening off with a meet-​​and-​​greet with the designer her­self. Yet again, Lau­ren Elaine suc­cess­fully cap­ti­vates the audi­ence and fash­ion world alike.

Pho­tog­ra­phy & cov­er­age cour­tesy of Emer­ald Chic’s West Coast Team: Chris­t­ian Lewis, Codee Maves, & Sean Peterson.

In the throws of Miami’s hottest bod­ies in the coun­try, we kicked off Mercedes-​​Benz Fash­ion Week Swim at The Setai for Cos­mopoli­tan en espanol mag­a­zine. With the run­way sus­pended over a bed of water inside the main entrance, it was the per­fect set-​​up for a week in the sum­mer sun watch­ing the world’s hottest swimwear design­ers share their lat­est cre­ations to a world of media, fash­ion lovers, and beach bunnies.

The suits at this par­tic­u­lar show included favorites such as Ash­ley Paige, Char­lie by Matthew Zink, Iemanjá Swimwear and Ser­gio Rossi. Hot bod­ies on and off the run­way – guests included – wore lux­ury time­pieces by spon­sor Hublot Watches and essence of Eva by Eva Lon­go­ria perfume.

I par­tic­u­larly loved all the fun acces­sories paired with the suits: col­or­ful head­bands, fun & flowy cover-​​ups, and of course lots of heels!

Take a look at some of the footage, hot off the runway!