Last Thursday, June 8th, kicked off the beginning of Paraiso’s Miami Swim Week. The exciting weekend kicked off with The Summer Fashion Summit, with speakers like Paola Urbano of Pretty Little Thing and Paraiso’s very own Natalija Stojanovic. The summit featured many directions of conversation and talking points discussing Keynote Addresses, Trend Predicting, and Market Evaluations. More familiar faces within the industry continued to arise all day, as we saw speeches and discussions from Rebecca Saygi of WGSN and Ivy Hellman, the Senior Buyer for Anthropologie.

Later in the afternoon, Stitch Lab hosted their annual kick-off, which was titled “Brunch & Bubbles”, hosted within the Miami Design District and was open to the public. Later, Wilhelmina hosted a gathering with Smile Train helping to raise awareness towards the non-profit. We then saw an event from Alo Yoga, which they titled as “the next step”.

Most excitingly, comes the runway shows. In total, there were three runway shows that took place on Thursday June 8th in the Paraiso Fashion Tents. The shows began with a fun and light runway show from LainSnow, as they presented their designs for the upcoming season.With a combination of both adult, junior, and children’s swimwear, the show was bound to make everyone in the audience smile. With a hint of western style to many of their designs, LainSnow’s runway show had fun and airy vibe to it.

Watch LainSnow's 2023 Runway Here

Then, ONEONE presented their runway show, depicting their upcoming season’s visions. The show presented many daring and sexy designs, combining the needs of their consumers, while also breaking the swimwear industry barriers.

Watch ONEONE's 2023 Runway Here

Lastly but certainly not least, we saw a stunning runway presentation from Beach Bunny, presenting many unique and inspired swimwear designs, pulling colors and designs to form truly original pieces. The show carried a lighthearted and joyful energy to it, as one of the models entered the runway on roller skates, beaming.

Watch Beach Bunny's 2023 Runway Here

Paraiso Miami Swim Week’s Day One closed out with a Beach Bunny and NEXT Models Collaboration party, to celebrate the best week of the year in the swimwear industry.

With so many designs, color palettes, and energies to love, the first day of Paraiso’s Miami Swim Week was a great success. With a plethora of well known and accomplished speakers within the fashion industry sharing their tips and points of advice, from sexy and fun runway shows, Paraiso knows how to put on a show, and we are here for it!

Written by Bryn Hager