Her glamorous photo shoot featured the brand’s iconic colorful styles and embellishments. The 26 year-old blonde bombshell has high volume hair and coordinating headbands. We bet Leo Di Caprio may reconsider the breakup when he sees his ex-girlfriend in these HOT pics. Check out the video from E! News below for a sneak peak at Bar’s high-fashion photos:

Watch E! News Video: Bar Refaeli makes a splash in Agua Bendita

Agua Bendita is known for their playful styles and color choices- they’re the brand for any woman who doesn’t want to go unnoticed! The brand features textures and prints galore for an exotic flavor.  Coveted for their avant-garde designs and luxury fabrics, Agua Bendita hand crafts each piece for exquisite detailing.  Not only are Agua Bendita swimsuits to die for, their social initiatives are admirable, selecting single mothers and women who are heads of households as their seamstresses. This brand has gained worldwide recognition for their couture swimsuits and has been featured in magazines such as Sports illustrated, Maxim, Los Angeles Times, Ocean Drive, and more.  Shop more Agua Bendita styles now and take a sneak peak at Bar’s sexy shots below for the Agua Bendita Swimwear 2012 collection.

It all started one slow winter at Sports Illustrated headquarters. With nothing going on in the sports world to write about, editor Andre Laguerre had to come up with something to flesh out the pages of his magazine. So he called in young fashion reporter Jule Campbell to help him out. His question for Ms. Campell? “How would you like to go to some beautiful place and put a pretty girl on the cover?”

There had actually been a Swimsuit Edition earlier that year, featuring Babette March, but it hadn’t garnered too much attention. But Jule Campbell took the reins and turned the Swimsuit Edition around. Her secret? Featuring “bigger and healthier” California women that had a bit more meat on them then the Twiggy-type models that were popular at the time!

We’re no strangers to the Sport’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, ourselves. Many of the brands that the Orchid Boutique carries are SI Swimsuit Edition vets, including Vix, Agua Bendita, Maaji, and more! You can keep track of which Orchid Boutique brands appear by checking out our blog updates on Sports Illustrated.

Maaji Swimwear - a SI Swimsuit Edition veteran!

Source: “The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue” by Bryan Cur on Slate, Feb. 16, 2005.

Shot in Cappadocia, Turkey, this shoot is inspired by a Mediterranean theme. The sandy mountains in the background as well as the head covering represents the inspiration behind the sexy shoot.  The Agua Magica bottom also features the heart-shaped crochet design and provides moderate coverage in the rear. Top provides adjustable straps and clips at back.

Agua Bendita has established itself as a force of its own, with elite designs unlike the typical styles seen before. Agua Bendita has created a loyal brand of almost cult-like followers, whom are a testament to the superior quality and originality of their swimsuits. Agua Bendita has wooed the tastes of Sports Illustrated’s editors who are among the first in line to browse their designs as soon as they are released.

The Maaji bikini selected for the Sports Illustrated spread is the Mosaique Halter Bikini, which features a pattern of peach & white in plaid combined with purple ruffle trim. The plaid trend is a must have for this season and will stay relevant going into the next year. The Mosaique Halter Bikini by Maaji provides moderate coverage in the rear. The top can be adjusted for more or less coverage by pulling the triangles away from each other and allowing the keyhole at bust to expand.

Also included in the SI shoot were Agua Bendita Swimwear, OndadeMar, and Vix, which will be  featured in upcoming posts.

For the second year in a row, Sports Illustrated has featured the sought-after brand Agua Bendita Swimwear in their annual Swimsuit Issue. Get all the hottest Agua Bendita styles from 2008 and 2007 here. Or Shop By Brand for Agua Bendita Swimwear in our Designer Bikinis or One-piece Sections.

The 2008 cover model Marissa Miller sported Agua Bendita styles last year. Click here to view last year’s the sizzling pics.

In 2008 Model Jarah Mariano wore Agua Bendita style for the SI Swimsuit Issue, shot in Maui, Hawaii.

Shop this Gota de Agua style by clicking here.

Jarah Mariano also sported the Agua Linda Bikini, a pinup style couture swimsuit very much in line with the current 50s-inspired fashion trend.

Shop the Agua Linda Bikini The Orchid Boutique by clicking here.

Also wearing Agua Bendita for the second consecutive year is Leo Di Caprio’s on-and-off girlfriend Bar Refaeli. In an exclusive haute couture style specially made at the request of Sports Illustrated’s creative team, Bar Refaeli struts the very exclusive SI Gota de Agua in gold. Available here.

Shop the exclusive SI Gota de Agua in Gold here. Currently IN-STOCK.

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Agua Bendita Swimwear and its designers are known for their intricate attention to detail and talent for creating couture styles. Agua Bendita has set the standard as a designer swimwear line that values quality over quantity, making their suits exclusive and fabulous. Shop all styles here.

Aquatic Cosmos is Agua Bendita´s most recent collection. This new collection is inspired by the bottom of the sea, the color of fish and fantastic beings such as mermaids.

Agua Bendita is characterized for dressing woman that does not want to go by unnoticed in everyday life, or when the occasion speaks of beach, sun and breeze.
Its playful concepts, colors and happiness, have made of Agua Bendita a brand that mingles the technology of laser cuts with the colored complexity of the handicrafts, all on very basic molds.
Gold is the protagonist color in 2008 collection. Other colors are reflected on it just as the light of the stars would reflect on a Mermaid’s tail.

Happiness in stunning suits
Textures are protagonists again, imitating in some cases fish scales. The classical and traditional bikinis are suits impossible to ignore thanks to the Colombian handicrafts, handmade embroidered, crochet detail, and finishes in visible and thick threads