WTF! July 2017

SUMMER SWIM 2017 Issue #43 July 2017

COVER GIRL

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Amy Joy Langebartel

SWIM PART 1

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Brianna May Brooke McCormick Mikayla McCoy Emily Hoover Taylor Lunde Katlyn Anderson Caitlyn Houlihan Autumn Everland

SPOKANE BOXING

68

Mary Maystrovich

FITNESS PART 1

74

Amanda Wilson & Danika Cross

FITNESS PART 2

90

Kathryn Lonam

MODERNIST COOKS

95

Amanda Ann Hillmann

SWIM PART 2

98

Alexandra Collins Celilo Miles Mollie Weitz Alla Radchenko Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal

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National Bikini Day : Everything but your mother’s maiden name!

Did you know that there’s a day designated and called National Bikini Day? July 5 celebrates the day when the bikini was invented by Parisian designer Louis Reard.

Once banned in countries as indecent, today’s versions will surely make your eyes pop out and wonder what would now constitute as indecent, if any.

Reard borrowed the name from Bikini Atoll, where post-war atomic bomb testing was taking place. Indeed, it seems fitting that the term bikini was borrowed from something quite explosive!

It took a French automotive and mechanical engineer to realize the idea of a minimalist two-piece swimsuit after noticing that women in the beaches of St. Tropez were rolling up the edges of the swimsuits to get a better tan.

When Reard looked for a model to wear his design at a press conference, none of the women wanted to wear it so he hired 19 year old nude dancer Micheline Bernardini from the Casino de Paris. The press and the public were duly shocked and women weren’t bold enough to adapt to his design. Reard described his design as “a two-piece bathing suit that revealed everything about a girl except for her mother’s maiden name”.

One survey claims that 85% of bikinis never touch the water. According to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard due to “the power of women, and not the power of fashion”. As he explains, “The emancipation of swimwear has always been linked to the emancipation of women”.

Our annual summer swim issue began 3 years ago with a collaboration with Mountain View, California-based swimwear designer and manufacturer UjENA.com. UjENA provided suits for our models to wear in our shoots and for the last 3 years, we’ve featured the latest designs from their showroom.

The favorite location featured in every swimwear issue is on Tubbs Hill in the resort town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho by beautiful Lake Coeur d’Alene.

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho is a small town in the northern part of Idaho. It is five hours by car to Seattle, Washington to the west, 4 hours by car to Glacier National Park in Montana to the Northeast, and 8 hrs by car to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to the Southeast.

Back to our infamous bikini...

Bikinis were popularized by actresses from both sides of the Atlantic helping bring it into the mainstream. Hollywood stars took advantage of the risque publicity associated with the bikini by taking glamour shots wearing it.

French actress Brigitte Bardot helped popularize it by wearing a bikini at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. With her husband and agent Roger Vadim she attracted attention with photographs of her wearing a bikini on every beach in the south of France.

Today’s swimwear designs often cross over into lingerie designs and it’s hard to tell at times whether the ultramodern woman is wearing underwear or swimwear.

Le Bikini Model: Amy Joy Langebartel Photographer: Eric Barro

While the two-piece swimsuit as a design existed in classical antiquity,the modern design first attracted public notice in Paris on July 5, 1946. French mechanical engineer Louis RĂŠard introduced a design he named the "bikini", taking the name from the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean,which was the colonial name the Germans gave to the atoll, transliterated from the Marshallese name for the island, Pikinni.

Source: Wikipedia Model: Amy Joy Langebartel Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amy Joy Langebartel Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amy Joy Langebartel Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amy Joy Langebartel Photographer: Eric Barro

“A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence.

It protects the property without obstructing the view.�

-- Joey Adams

Model: Amy Joy Langebartel Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Michelle Inman Lighting: Barry Coon

The sight of the first woman in the minimal two-piece was as explosive as the detonation of the atomic bomb by the U.S. at Bikini Island in the Marshall Isles, hence the naming of the bikini.

--Tom Waits

Model: Brianna May Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Brianna May Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Brianna May Photographer: Eric Barro

With the fabric shortage still in place and in an endeavour to resurrect swimwear sales, two French designers – Jacques Heim and Louis Réard – almost simultaneously launched their new two-piece swimsuit ranges in 1946. Heim launched his two-piece swimsuit in Paris which he called the atome, after the smallest known particle of matter.He advertised the Atome as the world’s “smallest bathing suit”. At about the same time, Louis Réard created a competing two-piece swimsuit design, which he called the bikini.

Source: Wikipedia

Model: Brianna May Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Brianna May Photographer: Eric Barro

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

--Diana Vreeland

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

A lot of the time, we’re shooting summer campaigns in winter because they have to come out the next season. It’s the hardest to feel great in a bikini when it’s cold... so I appreciate a swimsuit shoot that’s in warm weather.

--Gigi Hadid

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

Réard said that “like the [atom] bomb, the bikini is small and devastating”. Fashion writer Diana Vreeland described the bikini as the “atom bomb of fashion”. In advertisements he declared the swimsuit could not be a genuine bikini “unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.” French newspaper Le Figaro wrote, “People were craving the simple pleasures of the sea and the sun. For women, wearing a bikini signaled a kind of second liberation. There was really nothing sexual about this. It was instead a celebration of freedom and a return to the joys in life Source: Wikipedia

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.”

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles wearing outfits from Kasterlux Photographer: Barry Coon

Despite the garment’s initial success in France, worldwide women still stuck to traditional one-piece swimsuits, and, his sales stalling, Réard went back to designing and selling orthodox knickers. In 1950, American swimsuit mogul Fred Cole, owner of mass market swimwear firm Cole of California, told Time that he had “little but scorn for France’s famed Bikinis.” Réard himself would later describe it as a “two-piece bathing suit which reveals everything about a girl except for her mother’s maiden name.” Fashion magazine Modern Girl Magazine in 1957 stated that “it is hardly necessary to waste words over the so-called bikini since it is inconceivable that any girl with tact and decency would ever wear such a thing”.

Source: Wikipedia Model: Celilo Miles Model: Brooke wearing outfitsMcCormick from Kasterlux Photographer: Barro Photographer:Eric Barry Coon

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Brooke McCormick Photographer: Eric Barro

“The most sexy trait in a woman is- when she starts taking the world by a storm!�

-- Jasleen Kaur Gumber

“I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this.�

-- Susan Branch

Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Emily Hoover Photographer: Eric Barro

Increasingly common glamour shots of popular actresses and models on either side of the Atlantic played a large part in bringing the bikini into the mainstream. During the 1950s, Hollywood stars such as Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Tina Louise, Marilyn Monroe, Esther Williams, and Betty Grable took advantage of the risqué publicity associated with the bikini by posing for photographs wearing them—pin-ups of Hayworth and Williams in costume were especially widely distributed in the United States. In 1950, Elvira Pagã walked at the Rio Carnival, Brazil in a golden bikini, starting the bikini tradition of the carnival.

Source: Wikipedia

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”

--Crystal Woods

Model: Emily Hoover Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Emily Hoover Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Taylor Lunde Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Leigh Ann Davis Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Leigh Ann Davis Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Katlyn Anderson Photographer: Eric Barro

“When in doubt Wear Red.” -- Bill Blass “Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.”

-- Helen Keller

Model: Katlyn Anderson Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Katlyn Anderson Photographer: Eric Barro

In Europe, 17-year-old Brigitte Bardot wore scanty bikinis (by contemporary standards) in the French film Manina, la fille sans voiles (“Manina, the girl unveiled�). The promotion for the film, released in France in March 1953, drew more attention to Bardot’s bikinis than to the film itself. By the time the film was released in the United States in 1958 it was re-titled Manina, the Girl in the Bikini.

Bardot was also photographed wearing a bikini on the beach during the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Working with her husband and agent Roger Vadim she garnered significant attention with photographs of her wearing a bikini on every beach in the south of France.

Source: Wikipedia

Model: Caitlyn Houlihan Photographer: Eric Barro

“I was made for sunny days.”

-- Anonymous

Model: Caitlyn Houlihan Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Autumn Everland Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Autumn Everland Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mary Maystrovich Photographer: Eric Barro

Spokane Boxing www.spokaneboxing.com 115 S. Jefferson St, Spokane WA Rick Welliver : 509-217-0731

Boxing isn’t just a sport.

It’s not just fitness. For many, boxing is a pathway to hope.

Model: Mary Maystrovich Photographer: Eric Barro

Rick Welliver has a huge heart to help needy kids through a sport that helped him so much growing up.

Model: Mary Maystrovich Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mary Maystrovich Photographer: Eric Barro

It’s more than just a gym

Model: Mary Maystrovich Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

Rogue Fitness Amanda Wilson Danika Cross Photographer: Tom Tyson

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement” --Jess C. Scott

Model: Danika Cross Photographer: Tom Tyson

Model: Amy Sue Encinas wearing Rose Pleated Dress Model: Wilson $1495Amanda

by Prabal Gurung Photographer: Tom Tyson Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”

--Ronnie Coleman

Model: Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

“Getting fit is all about mind over matter.

I don’t mind, so it doesn’t matter.”

-- Adam Hargreaves

Models: Danika Cross and Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

Models: Danika Cross and Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

Models: Danika Cross and Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

Models: Danika Cross and Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

“Until you believe you can do it, it’s going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it.”

--Toni Sorenson

Model: Danika Cross Photographer: Tom Tyson

Model: Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

Model: Amanda Wilson Photographer: Tom Tyson

1899 House Bed & Breakfast www.1899house.com 1728 West First Avenue Spokane, WA 99201 509-301-1377

Model: Kathryn Lonam Photographer: Eric Barro

“Taking care of your body is insurance for your soul.�

--Toni Sorenson

Model: Kathryn Lonam Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Kathryn Lonam Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Kathryn Lonam Photographer: Eric Barro

Where’s The FOOD? a culinary adventure with Chef Amanda Ann Hillmann

THREE CHEESE MACARONI

Cook in order of ingredients 1 (6oz) cooked and frozen elbow macaroni 7 tbsps (2/3 stick + 2 TB) butter divided 1 tbsp minced onion 1 tsp chopped garlic 1 tbsp flour 1 cup milk 5 oz cheese any flavor your choice 1/4 tsp salt 1/8 tsp pepper 4 tbsp herb salad

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty four.”

-- Nora Ephron

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table There’s nothing wrong with them, but it’s hard to stop thinking about it.”

--Garrison Keillor

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

“So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.�

--Bayard Taylor

Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro

“The cut of the bikini is definitely important.

You want to wear one that compliments your body type.�

--Behati Prinsloo

“The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.�

--Ram Charan

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

“When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography.

To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.�

--Jiddu Krishnamurti

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Réard’s company folded in 1988,[100] four years after his death. By the end of the century, the bikini had become the most popular beachwear around the globe. According to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard, this was due to “the power of women, and not the power of fashion”. As he explains, “The emancipation of swimwear has always been linked to the emancipation of women”, though one survey indicates 85% of all bikinis never touch the water. By 1988 the bikini made up nearly 20% of swimsuit sales, more than any other model in the US, though onepiece suits made a comeback during the 1980s and early 1990s Source: Wikipedia

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Celilo Miles Photographer: Eric Barro

“All women are goddesses, and it’s just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don’t try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.”

--Kimora Lee Simmons

Model: Mollie Weitz Photographer: Eric Barro

“We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.�

--C. S. Lewis

Model: Mollie Weitz Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mollie Weitz Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mollie Weitz Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Mollie Weitz Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro

“... in the end, Goddess is just a word.

It simply means the divine in female form.�

--Sue Monk Kidd

Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro

“From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of beauty, charm and elegance.�

--Sandeep N. Tripathi

Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro

Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro

“I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade.

No cloud is ever in the same place.

Each day is a new masterpiece.

A new wonder. A new memory.�

--Sanober Khan

Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro

“There are those who fear the sunset, worried they will never see light again.

There are those who ignore the sunrise, squandering dawn, believing they will never run out of daylight. And then there are those who have learned to live in the sun’s warmth, gauging time by its positions, thankful at night that the day happened. Be aware of time. Use it wisely. Be thankful for the light allotted.”

--Richelle E. Goodrich

Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro

“This is my favorite time of day. When the sun is setting and the last of its fiery fingers caress the water line before relinquishing their hold to the darkness of the night. And I can watch as the stars pop out, one by one, to pinprick the sky with their silvery light.�

--J.A. Souders

“Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.�

--Nate Holland

Model: Amanda Ann Marie McGonigal Photographer: Eric Barro