Swimwear blog news and trends

posted by admin on Mar 15

Surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore is expected to attend the Laureus World Sports Awards this week in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since she has been nominated once more for the “Action Sportsperson of the Year” award. She also endorses swimwear brands and is known for her swimsuits.

The OXY Pro champion is based in Gold Coast Australia and has been one of the most prominent figures in surfing.

Gilmore just won the season-opening women’s world tour event last weekend and a victory at the ceremony doubles the fun.

The surfing hero has been nominated in this category for the past two years. However, she lost the honors to American snowboarding champion Shaun White in 2008 and surfing great Kelly Slater last year.

Her fellow nominees for this year include surfing guru Mick Fanning, windsurfer Antoine Albeau from France, skateboarder Chris Cole from the United States, wavesurfer Greg Long of the United States and cyclist Danny MacAskill of the United Kingdom.

posted by admin on Aug 18

Internationally-renowned supermodel Elyse Taylor was in Sydney, Australia recently to open the second annual Sydney Fashion Festival. The Australian, which is currently based in New York, was seen walking down the catwalk with a trench-coat inspired dress created by Jayson Brunsdon.

Famous Australian personalities were seen at the audience area including Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice who revealed that this is the only event she can attend in the six-day festival because she needs to back in Brisbane.

In an interview Rice said that she had a blast at the recently concluded World Championships in Rome and is now enjoying her break. She added that this was her first time attending a fashion event.

There were a lot of new styles presented to the audiences that night including jackets adorned with sequins, halter neck dresses, swimwear and many more.

As for Taylor, she’ll be staying in the city for a while since she’ll be back to model the Seafolly swimwear line. She commented that Brunsdon’s creations were superb and that she’s looking forward to wear them in the future.

The Sydney Fashion Festival will have more than 15 events. Other designers scheduled to show their creations are Lisa Ho, Nicola Finetti and Wayne Cooper.

posted by admin on Jul 21

Swimmer Rebecca Adlington, a British Olympian, voiced out her opposition on the new generation of swimwear that promises faster performance and record-breaking results in major events.

On the report published by Daily Telegraph, Adlington said that using this high tech swimwear constitutes unfair advantage.

For the past few months, swimsuits such as Speedo swimwear caused controversy following the sudden influx of new records in the past swimming competitions. There are expectations that these records will be overtaken once more in the upcoming World Swimming Championships in Italy.

Arlington has won the 400-meter and 800-meter events in the Olympics and despite the growing popularity of the high tech swimwear, she’ll still stick to traditional swimwear.

However, it has been noted that Arlington herself used Speed swimwear’s LZR Racer suit in last year’s Beijing Olympics. However, the said swimwear still passed FINA, swimming’s global governing body, standards.

On June 22, FINA released a list of approved swimsuits. One swimwear manufacturer TYR protested the results since four of its designers were not approved by the governing body. As of current development, a French court dismissed the manufacturer’s lawsuit solely because the matter at hand is already out of France’s jurisdiction.