See Dilara Findikoglu’s “Attractive and Highly effective” New Swimwear Capsule

Nice swimwear is tough to come back by. Beachside, goal tends to rule within the type of flimsy, thonged flip-flops and too-small budgie-smugglers. Much less is extra, however ought to that actually compromise fashion? Turkish designer Dilara Findikoglu proves not with the second iteration of her swimwear capsule assortment, Saint Dilara Seashore Membership.

Encompassing the hauntingly lovely codes of her mainline – the referencing of highly effective ladies in historical past, certain by the tougher edges of fetish and glam-rock – Findikoglu’s recent tackle swimwear is as empowering as it’s refined. “From a enterprise perspective we have been noticing an absence of one of these elevated swimwear,” she tells AnOther, “which we strategy with the identical craftsmanship as our most important collections. We wish the swimwear to really feel as particular.”

It’s swimwear to really feel particular in, too. The capsule contains silhouette-sculpting items that take their form from 18th-century corsetry, streamlining the physique with strategies handed down for generations. “It was an important problem to persuade the factories to make use of boning for swimwear. I needed to meet with 4 completely different factories to truly discover the proper place that was eager to strive our strategies.”

“Every of the brand new kinds are impressed by our favorite feminine heroines, like Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette and Mata Hari.” These radical ladies seize the unconventional essence of the elegant Dilara Findikoglu wearer, daring sufficient to don her considerate but sensual items. “I’m obsessive about undergarments and the way in which they form and current the feminine physique – so naturally, I noticed swimwear as a chance to design lingerie-style items that may be worn in public.”

The cinematic marketing campaign options Lily McMenamy clad in items from the capsule; with a snake draped over her shoulders or posed in a glass tank, she seems highly effective, by no means trapped. It’s the masterful work of Danish photographer Casper Sejersen (who captured Saint Laurent for AnOther’s most up-to-date problem), recognized for his characterful photos with erotic undertones. “Lily [McMenamy] has been considered one of my favorite collaborators for the reason that starting of my profession,” he says. ”She has portrayed a whole lot of completely different characters for me in several seasons. She actually embodies all of the traits of a Dilara lady: otherworldly, courageous, highly effective, and horny.”

Whereas the 2021 capsule captured the escapism of an imaginary island, the narrative of this 12 months is fashioned round “changing into a saint on the island”– an extra sense of freedom from burden and celebrating the facility of self-deification. It’s by means of this sense of mystic spiritualism that Findikoglu captures the spirit of summer time.

Saint Dilara Seashore Membership is out there to buy on-line now.