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- The supermodel combined her strengths with the Dos label in New York to create a comprehensive line of swimwear that is as good as none.
The dazzling light of the dressing room, emitting every semblance of acceptance and gratitude to the point of undressing, undressing in public for almost everyone inhabiting the body, was filled with many emotions.
Even though she’s now a genuinely new-generation supermodel, garnering looks for fashion heavyweights including Fendi, McQueen, and Lanvin – plus the oddly innovative cover for Vogue-Paloma Elsesser is well aware of the situation.
“I don’t have fond memories of the times when I was younger,” he said as we talked about Zoom. “I’ve never worn a t-shirt in the pool, but I’ve always been stocky, so it was a little uncomfortable.”
She often tells her friends that she doesn’t want her hair to get wet to avoid swimming. It wasn’t until she grabbed a two-piece vintage Nautica hand that she turned 360 when it came to bikinis. “I finally realized how excited I was when I found out that it happened in my junior high school, for example,” she said. “I wore high-waisted panties and a naughty top and felt so sexy in this bikini. I still have it.”
Cut to 2021, and Elsesser is more specific than ever in swimwear, moving from high-waisted shorts to stylish tiny shorts, flip-flops, and triangular bras – she’s now designing all of this herself as part like a new collaboration with Dos. The New York indie swimming label was founded by friends Paula Hess and Shay Johnson, and the partnership with Elsesser came after a chance encounter on the Sidewalk in New York.
“We were running in circles like Paloma, and last summer when everyone was living in the city, and no one was getting out of Rockaway, I met her on the street,” said Johnson, the former designer at the opening ceremony. “We hadn’t seen each another in months, so we were literally in this corner for an hour to meet. I don’t know how we got into bathing suits, but in the end, I just thought, ‘We have to bake a cake.! surprisingly, Hess was also enthusiastic about the idea.
Since Elsasser describes this incident as “sacred,” divine intervention seems to play a role. The chance encounter happened just as the Dos designers were preparing to roll out a considerable size, but they pushed them to add the 3XL model to the line.