The Sultry Women of Summer

By Laura Medina

Cynthia Rowley for Roxy

This scribe is lucky enough to collect numerous swimwear collections that run the gamut from functional feminine to seductively sultry to naughty but nice. There are lines and swimwear to suit everyone's preferences to hit the beach.

Avid surfer and Manhattan chic womens designer, Cynthia Rowley, was thrilled to hook up with Roxy Surfwear after bumping into the vice president on Montauk Beach.

She is one of many women designers, from Joie Rucker and the Juicy Couture girls, Pam and Gela, who hit the waves to relax. When she gained access to Roxy's technical expertise in hard-core surf wear, Cynthia felt the time was right to launch a surfwear collection specifically tailored to the feminine but serious girl and women surfers.

As a woman surfer, she noticed that womens' wetsuits are nothing more than femininized version of the male's wetsuit without considering women's needs and wants out of their surf gear.

Knowing many women surfers are just like her, busy designer during the week who shreds the waves on weekends, Cynthia makes sure her collection fits in a weekend, drawstring bag for one big but easy haul.

Her rift on the wetsuit-turned-dress expanded from vintage Body Glove's version into something that actually works in the waves. Her is a color-block tunic/wetsuit you can pair with a matching boyshort. She even joked her wetsuit/sheath dress tones in at all the right places, like a giant spandex dress. Her coverups can be belted for dressier nights-out-on-the-town.

Cynthia Rowley's Collaboration for Roxy is where fashion splashes with function.

It's out in stores right now, select Barneys, Colette in Paris, Quiksilver in Tokyo, David
Jones in Sydney and 10 Corso Como in Milan. The collection will also be carried at Cynthia Rowley stores, CynthiaRowley.com, and Roxy.com.

La Perla Swimwear Collection Runway Show at South Coast Plaza's Anqui.

If your weary bones prefer lounging by the pool than trashing the waves, you can slink by in La Perla's sexy new swimwear line.

Sexy studs and suggestive coverups are great for that rooftop pool party at a chic city club or a swank hotel.

The Bad Girls of Summer, Cavortress Swimwear for Summer.

If hitting the strip on a Harley is more your thing but you want a little more coverage and spiced up, Cavortress' Forties and Fifties-inspired swimsuits and figure-friendly bikinis might rev up your engines.

It's vintage Eighties's color, fabric, and patterns meshing with hip-hugging boyshorts and sweetheart necklines and halters that can be paired with tees, tanks, and jeans or Daisy Dukes for a casual with an edge style that can easily stroll from sand to street without missing a beat. The prices don't hurt either. Great for Spring Break.

The Arriviste thinks of everyone and anybody, from the serious surfer who demands serious fashion and function, to the resort socialite, and the easy-going but stressed student on Spring Break, there is a swimsuit for every lifestyle.