Women's Swimwear Gottex

Passion! You can see it manifest in each individual swimsuit designed and created by luxury label, Gottex. Innovators in womens swimwear design since 1956, this internationally-renowned label creates a new concept with love and passion every season with a supreme understanding of what flatters a woman's body and a commitment to producing high fashion swimwear that constantly surprises and excites both their customers and the fashion industry. Gottex has long been a favourite of the Glitterati because of its stunning cuts, precision detail and luxurious prints, fabrics and colours. It's impossible not to feel absolutely special in this silhouette enhancing, sensational swimwear!

Creating A World Centred on 'The Swimsuit'

It was passion that spurred Lea Gottlieb to sell her wedding ring to raise capital to buy fabric to create the first Gottex swimsuit on a borrowed sewing machine. "I wanted to create a whole world that centred on the swimsuit!", she declared in 1996 when reflecting on the 40th Anniversary of the Gottex Label. "No brand had ever done it before," she said, "Women can wear our collection from the pool to the bar then go out to a restaurant or cocktail party".

A Love Affair with Colour

In Israel, where the label has its origins, Lea found inspiration for her original designs from the light and contrasting colours - the aqua of the Mediterranean, the golden yellow of the desert, the pinks of Jerusalem's stones - and this began her love affair with colours, a hallmark of each Gottex Collection even today. It's hard to go past the amazing colours and prints that stamp each Gottex swimsuit. Far from gaudy, yet still vivid and electric, the combination of colour, fabric, cut and detail creates a masterpiece of swimwear. Always at the cutting edge of innovative and technical execution, sourcing fabrics of the most luxurious highest quality and creating prints with profound cultural influences, Gottex is praised the world over for its dedication to breaking barriers between swimwear and high fashion.

Flattering the Female Form

Perhaps the cornerstone of the label is its designers' innate appreciation of the female form and dedication to creating swimsuits that are cut and detailed with a keen eye on making the most of every woman's silhouette. Fuller and more mature bodies benefit from stretch control tummy panels and individual cup sizes that are so intrinsic to the design as to be undiscernible thanks to clever design techniques. Each original swimsuit uses the fabric to optimise shape and lavish and rich adornments to give a flawless end result. Embellishing with strategically placed flourishes of patterns and lines that guide the eye to a visibly shaped silhouette and a penchant for delicate curved lines and contours that follow the body's natural lines are the subtle and ultra flattering details that have made Gottex such a well-loved, and highly desirable, brand. Lauded for their striking one-piece swimsuits, Gottex style is in the cut, which includes bandeau and bandeau halters, square fronts, v necks and low cut and deep-plunging. The cuts are fashionable and flattering in exquisite plains with rich detail or bold prints that are unique to Gottex.

Gottex and the Glitterati

Using words like stunning, glamorous, beautiful and exquisite to describe a Gottex swimsuit is certainly not overstating this exclusive label's seasonal contributions to women's swimwear. This is swimwear that not only has to be seen to be believed - it has to be worn to be believed. In the Gottex archives are a multitude of photos of jet-set celebs, captured over the decades, in St.Tropez, in the Caribbean, at luxury resorts, all wearing the latest Gottex swimwear. In 2010, that archive continues to grow as supermodels in the latest Gottex creations sashay down the world's leading fashion week runways. Gottex is never outmoded, out of date or out of step with high fashion and can always be counted on to deliver fresh, feminine and flattering luxury swimwear that is still the centre of that swimsuit world that inspired Lea Gottlieb's dream over 50 years ago.