Judging by what you see in Hollywood films, runway shows and celebrity paparazzi shots, bikinis are the reigning swimsuit style in America. Despite th...

Bathing suit shopping isn't for the faint of heart. It involves nudity, bad lighting and the awareness of your every flaw. But I've found a few tricks...

Years ago, I would just pluck a couple of suits off the rack at the nearest discount store and make do, but when the pictures were developed from that beach day, I would cringe. Granted, there is no magic suit that matches every single body, but here are some tips I've picked up along the way.

Spring has officially arrived. And another season means a new swath of sartorial trends being dictated by both the runways and the streets. Consider this your cheat sheet, a Cliff's Notes of sorts for how to best dive into spring's sartorial trends du jour.

Sofia Vergara, Jennifer Aniston and more celebrities have been spotted on the beach in stunning swimwear this holiday season. Now, we're not big bathi...

Somewhere down in the basement lies one of my old Gottex bathing suits, now faded beyond use. I see it in memory of the younger me with my then-boyfriend, now-husband, when we toured the world on a dime and seemed to live in bathing suits.

Not long ago Shivan Bhatiya and Narresh Kukreja were mocked and derided for daring to design swimwear in a country that didn't even have a swimwear industry.

Recently, I was hanging out at the beach in Montauk. In between trying not to get knocked over by surfboards, I noticed all the hipsters in their biki...

Some women consider swimwear to be an investment that they renew each summer season. It makes sense: For the amount of times that you don that bathing...

I never understood the girls who brought seven different bathing suits for a week-long vacation. Seven tan lines never sounded appealing, nor did tryi...

We're all for retro, '50s-style bathing suits making a comeback. But retro, '50s-style bathing suit laws? Not so much. In Monmouth County, New Jers...

Two summers ago, I was at a pool party in Southampton when I spotted a girl wearing the coolest dress/swimsuit hybrid I had ever seen. I didn't know her, but that didn't matter. I had to find out where it was from. "Vintage," she smiled. "I bought it at this great second hand store downtown."

Last week, we took a look back at some of our favorite swimsuit style icons, like Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe and Christie Brinkley. Of course, these...

Summer is here and while we couldn't be more excited about long weekends at the beach, the thought of getting into a swimsuit can be decidedly less ap...