SUMMER SWIM 2017 Issue #43 July 2017
COVER GIRL
6
Amy Joy Langebartel
SWIM PART 1
14
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.
“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
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
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
Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Mikayla McCoy Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Emily Hoover Photographer: Eric Barro
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: Kathryn Lonam Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Kathryn Lonam Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Alexandra Collins Photographer: Eric Barro
Model: Alexandra Collins 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
Model: Alla Radchenko Photographer: Eric Barro
“From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of beauty, charm and elegance.� --Sandeep N. Tripathi