After five successful years online, we will be opening our first store location in South Beach, off of popular Collins Ave. This prime location features neighbors such as Armani Exchange, Adidas and DASH!.

Orchid Boutique on 8th St. in South Beach will feature our luxury swimwear, beachwear, and an expanded selection of accessories including bags, hats and jewelry.

Renovations are underway for the transformation of our newest venture. We’re excited to bring you some images of our location and the beginning stages of construction. Be sure to check back here every week for updates on the store’s progress.

We’ll be opening in March and we hope to see everyone there. Be sure to follow our blog for more details regarding our grand opening celebration.

Vera Wang Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear

This year at New York Fashion Week Vera Wang brought some whimsy to the runway with her Alice in Wonderland inspired Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear collection. For this collection, Wang applied antique inspiration to modern tailoring and design. With impeccable taste. The fabric, color, and tailoring choices combined created a bold yet elegant collection.

Fabrics were at the forefront for Wang’s runway show with overwhelming texture. The show was filled with perforated pique, organza, tulle, seemingly weightless chiffon, and oversize eyelet. The movement of each piece on the runway gives homage to the quality of fabric. Wang’s collection was brimming with sheer style, but we’re not disapproving! The designer focused on “tailoring and transparency” for her Spring collection.

Vera Wang Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear

Wang began the show with eleven purely white pieces, yet kept the eye engaged with fabric choices including organza and eyelet. The remaining colors of Wang’s spring collection included neon yellow, pewter, slate gray, sea foam blue, pale pink, and pops of bright coral and brilliant blue. While the designer remained mainly monochromatic she did include one super psychedelic print, inspired by 18th century French wallpaper, invigorated with bold coloring.

Wang’s designs replicated whimsical creatures gliding out of the water in colors pertaining to an underwater submarine excursion. Structured peplum skirts, cape-like trains from the neckline, and plunging v-necks sprinkled the whimsical collection. Our favorites had to be the very short shorts paired with sleeveless tops, seeming swimwear inspired. Wang’s Spring collection was full of organic lines, plunging hemlines to show some leg, and incorporated elegantly flowing trains.

Camilla Dress by L*Space Swimwear and Vera Wang 2012 Ready-to-Wear

Some runway pieces transfer flawlessly to ready to wear. While Vera Wang’s 2012 Spring collection on the runway was transparent and whimsical, we have found inspiration for some must-have pieces perfect for our wardrobe. A great example is the flyaway train dress trend, which designers like L*Space Swimwear have also been inspired by with styles like the Camilla Dress. Vera’s strapless dress with a front slit to the bodice and a lightweight, flyaway train transpires beautifully on the runway while L*Space’s floral printed Camilla Dress in a similar silhouette is a perfect cover up for your vacation getaway. Both feature sophisticated sheer fabrics which float effortlessly with each step.

Violet Submarie by Maaji Swimwear and Vera Wang Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear

We also love transmitting Wang’s organic lines of her runway collection into monokini swimsuits. Maaji Swimwear follows this trend with the Violet Submarine, an exclusive style made especially for The Orchid Boutique, features curved side cut outs, neckline, and fabric blocking. These organic lines are similar to those used for Wang’s white tank sleeved dress with a tapered scoop neckline, curved sheer paneling and curved layered hemlines. We love these looks because the organic lines make your body appear longer and leaner- certainly a must-have for every woman’s wardrobe.

Nanette Lepore 2012 Spring Ready-to-Wear

Nanette Lepore’s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear collection hit the runway at New York Fashion Week with an explosion of neon colors against a plain, clean-lined runway. The fluorescent colors were bold yet pleasing in shades of yellow, orange and pink. Nanette featured a live band at the base of the runway, also dressed in coordinating bright colors.

Nanette Lepore 2012 Spring Ready-to-Wear

Nanette’s spring collection consisted of clean-lined silhouettes and solids, allowing you to appreciate her design aspects. Filled with gathering details at the natural waist line, this new collection will make every woman look slim and feel fabulous. Nanette’s collections are all about the design details. This collection in particular featured geometrical fabric manipulations, crochet and lace. Nanette chose multiple pieces to feature cutouts or twist fabric to show just a hint of skin. The designer’s unique oblong cut-outs make many pieces flattering, including the back of a hot pink dress, a shocking yellow cropped top, and the front neckline of a pink and purple printed tea length dress.

Nanette Lepore Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear

Along with her fluorescent tones, Nanette included some favorite colors that are quickly rising to their own fame. A beautiful bright coral was featured on many designs including dresses, cropped tops, and even a suit. There’s also an influx of fuchsia, we can’t get enough fuchsia this fashion week! The Nanette Lepore Swimwear styles were definitely on “it” list at the show, featuring three suits in coordinating prints with the collection. For these runway showcases Nanette chose a high-waisted bottom paired with a mid-drift tankini and two one piece swimsuits with cut-outs and rouching.

Chelsea Triangle Top and String Bottom by Nanette Lepore

We simply adore the use of floral-printed lace overlays on two dresses, allowing for two bold colors to make an amazing impact together. Nanette also used a floral coral colored crochet to create a dress and a cropped top, both with dainty cap sleeves and scalloped detailing down the center front. Nanette Lepore herself wore a crochet dress with scalloped lines in white fading to a soft yellow color.

After Nanette’s Spring Ready-to-Wear runway show we are crazy about crochet! The crochet dress and cropped top from the runway featured a delicate scalloped detail down the center of the front. Nanette Lepore’s 2012 Swimwear collection includes Chelsea, the entirely crochet collection drenched in striking lilac. This delicate bikini features a triangle top and string bottom in crochet with scalloped detailing.

Crochet Short Dress by Nanette Lepore

Also in crochet, Nanette Lepore’s 2012 Swimwear collection features a short-sleeved cover up in azure, black, passionfruit, and white colors. Look familiar? The Crochet Short Dress Cover Up is very similar to Nanette’s finale walk ensemble! This cover up is a fun and flirty dress, perfect for your beach resort vacation.

Central Park Croquette Twist Top and Pin Up Skirt by Nanette Lepore

If you’re looking for something with brighter colors similar to Nanette’s runway, you’ll love the swimwear collection’s Central Park story line. These swimsuits and beach cover ups feature an exotic peacock feather print in bold colors of fuchsia, bright blue, lime, and true grass green. The Central Park Coquette Twist Top and Pin-up Skirt pull design inspirations from Nanette’s spring runway show in both silhouette and color. An amazing feature to the high-waisted bikini is the convertibility of the piece with the ruched fabric, just roll it up or down to adjust the height of you high-waist.

Badgley Mischka 2012 Spring Ready-to-Wear

Twitter was a buzzin during the show. Badgley Mischka brought old Hollywood glamour to the runway with their Spring 2012 Ready to Wear Collection. It was a line filled with ethereal gowns and striking pieces. The designing duo, Mark Badgley and James Mischka, told InStyle that their inspiration for this line came from studying the “organic movement of the body” with an “emphasis on volume and shape.”

Badgley Mischka’s spring ready-to-wear collection was simply sleek, chic and sophisticated. The designers sent a selection of nudes, corals, and pale pinks down the runway as well as saturated colors like fuchsia, bold red, and fire orange. Luxurious brocade, shantung and linen fabrics adorned the runway in solids and floral prints.

Badgley Mischka 2012 Spring Ready-to-Wear

With Badgley Mischka, the magic is in the details. Whether it’s a bow, a belt, or a beaded embellishment, these designers always finish their sleek designs with the perfect amount of adornment. This year the runway showcased Badgley Mischka’s signature styling with pleating and ruffles in all the right places. The old Hollywood glamour of the collection was notable with flowing evening gowns, structured bubble skirts, pinup inspired corset bodices, and dazzling gold shimmer detailing.

Surplice Stone Blousson by Badgley Mischka 2012

Badgley Mischka’s designs are truly all about the woman’s body and how to enhance her natural beauty. The designers showcased their fabulous evening wear designs in cocktail and floor length. An abundance of sweetheart necklines and body contouring silhouettes kept us begging for more. Some favorite pieces include a pair of fire orange high-waisted shorts paired with a lemon yellow boat neck blouse, a glamorous floor length gown of shimmering gold, and a coral dress with a large bow detail on the bodice paired with a pair of poppy red heels.

Belle Bottom by Badgley Mischka 2012

Badgley Mischka also included some swimwear pieces on the runway. Their first look paraded the Surplice Stone Blousson with draping detail and skinny straps. This swimsuit was sent down the runway in Badgley Mischka’s sky color but we also love it in stone gray. It’s a perfect swimsuit for a modern twist on the one piece swimsuit.

The designing duo also sent their Belle Bottom down the runway paired with a teal leather jacket. This high-waisted bottom features cinched fabric detailing at each hip and on the sides for a slimming appearance. Badgley Mischka also sent this swimsuit down the runway in sky but we adore the pinup inspired black version.

Tangier Sky Halter by Badgley Mischka 2012

The Badgley Mischka 2012 Swimwear collection features styles like the Tangier Sky Halter, which bring the sky blue color off the runway and straight to your wardrobe. The halter top features the signature Badgley Mischka beaded emblem embellishment at center bust with gathered fabric details for a flattering look. Tangier’s hipster bottom also incorporate the beaded embellishment on each hip with ruby, gold and blue jewel tones. This suit provides optimal support with a flattering seamless fit to hug your curves just right.

We’re ready for our close-up after viewing Badgley Mischka’s 2012 spring ready-to-wear collection. View all Badgley Mischka’s figure enhancing swimwear for your old Hollywood glamour inspiration.

Here’s the deal, we’re actually all for black swimsuits with the cutout sides, the peek-a-boo detail gives this type of suit a flair about it. The fact that it’s not a two-piece bikini and not a one-piece (but something in the middle) definitely makes it original. Of course, the see-through factor is a bit much in this case, cause you know there had to be some photoshopping up in the bust area. So for us undercover bunnies who like to be sexy without going overboard, a good option to consider is the Show Off Black Monokini by L*Space Swimwear.

This sexy 2011 bikini features a similar lace-up detail below the bust, plunging cutout sides, and halter top style, but without the fishnet mesh. L*Space designer Monica Wise certainly has a knack for creating magazine worthy swimwear, since this celebrity-coveted brand has been featured everywhere from People Style Watch to the New York post this season!

Hey Karina, we love your dancing and your kind of sweet-sounding voice, but if you’re thinking of hitting the beach in style, you’re going to want to go for like something like this!

So Meghan chose to wear a super cute triangle top bikini with a hipster bottom, a great combination. A great option to mirror this look is the Bendito I love you by Agua Bendita Swimwear has everything we love in a bikini.

Bendito I Love You by Agua Bendita Swimwear

This black bathing suit is full of interesting details that are sure to catch your eyes and even some onlookers at the beach. The triangle top has a laser-cut design all along the border and it ties at the neck and back for easily adjustable fit and comfort, a feature which we love.

The bottom of this swimsuit has the same laser-cut design along the top rim, and ends in sexy key-hole details that tie at each hip. It’s amazing how small details like this can make such a big difference. Hipster bottoms not only add a trendy design to the suit, they also offer perfect coverage, right where you want it.

Bendito I Love You by Agua Bendita Swimwear

Now remember that Agua Bendita swimsuits are full of surprises, just wait until you see the rear on this suit. A sexy and flirty “I Love You” embroidered detail adds a touch of fun to your bikini. Nothing says I love you like wearing it on your swimsuit!

So embrace the trendy triangle-hipster style, as worn by Supermodel Candice Swanepoel for Agua Bendita and Meghan Fox in her scorching Hawaiian vacation, and flaunt your looks with style. Also, if you’re into denim style with a edgy flair, try the Denim Wash by True Religion Swimwear.

Stella Catwalk by L*Space Swimwear

Beyonce wore this gorgeous navy blue dress to the launch of her new perfume “Heat”. She (or her stylist, we’re not sure) chose a very appropriate and very elegant style that suited her so well.

Carrie Underwood wore this navy blue dress by designer, Jenny Packham, to the CMT artist of the year event. Her long sleeve and embellished dress caught some attention because it’s not Carrie’s usual style but in our opinion she looked stunning.

Stella Catwalk by L*Space Swimwear

And Nicole Kidman walked the red carpet for the premiere of her latest film Rabbit Hole and also wore a navy blue Clements Ribeiro dress, full of lacey details and sparkle.

The Stella Catwalk Bikini by L*Space Swimwear is elegant and tasteful yet subtly sexy and beautiful, all at the same time. The navy blue backdrop is what makes it elegant and timeless, and the triangle top style makes it sexy and gorgeous. This swimsuit features gold hardware chain accents at the straps and at each hip, which not only add to its already elegant design but also sparkle in the sun making it glamorous and chic.

Stella Catwalk by L*Space Swimwear

If you are looking for a padded top bikini, this is the perfect suit, and if you prefer bikinis that aren’t padded, the padding is removable, so they adjust to any preference. The top also ties at the neck and at the back. The bottom offers moderate coverage at the rear and looks great from every angle.

So flaunt next season’s trend in a sophisticated two-piece bathing suit that has everything you need to look your best at the beach, at the pool or on a cruise.

Watch this swimsuit in action in this new shop by video feature!

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Even after having a baby, the mom of son Mason, who is just over a year old, looks amazing and completely back in shape. She lost 45 pounds and looks more radiant than ever.

So how did she do it? The magazine will tell you all about her diet, but we’ll tell you all about her sexy and super stylish swimsuit.

Malibu Casablanca Bikini by Despi Swimwear

The bikini Kourtney is wearing is the Malibu Casablanca Bikini by Despi Swimwear. This trendy halter top bikini is full of great details that will embellish your body at the beach or wherever you want to wear it. The top has intricate beaded details at each halter strap which will sparkle in the sun. A detail like this, which is close to your face makes you glow, the way earrings or a beautiful necklace would, which makes this bikini an excellent choice. Each strap is attached by leather details that add to the many features this bikini has. The top ties at the neck and at the back for an easily adjustable and comfortable fit.

Malibu Casablanca Bikini by Despi Swimwear

The bottom of this swimsuit has mirroring beaded details at each hip making it a sexy eye-catching detail. This intricately beaded bikini also provides full coverage at the rear, making it a sexy but modest way to wear this suit that will make you light up. Not only do these details make it beautiful, the brilliant blue hue in this solid color bikini is a knockout. This vibrant color will make you pop in a sea of dull bikinis, and make you the center of attention.

Malibu Casablanca Bikini by Despi Swimwear

So be encouraged by Kourtney to look your best in a swimsuit, even after having a baby. If she did it and looks this good in a bikini, we all can.

Lola Taboo Bikini by L*Space Swimwear

We love to catch celebs wearing luxe suits, especially when they strut their stuff wearing the products that we carry. So which bikini was Cameron Diaz wearing? She wore the unbelievably gorgeous, Lola Taboo Bandeau Bikini by L*Space Swimwear. Celebrities love L*Space, from Victoria Beckham to Audrina Patridge and now Cameron. We completely understand why they love it so much, not only are their designs fabulous in every way, the fabrics are silky soft and so very comfortable.

Lola Taboo Bikini by L*Space Swimwear

This bandeau top bikini is super cute because the top has a twisted fabric detail which creates a sweetheart neckline. Not only does this feature flatter the bust, it’s also completely sexy. This is also a padded top swimsuit, so it molds perfectly to your body, and it ties at the back, making it easy to adjust to your convenience. The bottom of this swimsuit has eye-catching double stings at each hip that create a sexy keyhole opening. The bottom of this swimsuit has moderate coverage at the rear, enough to cover what should be left to the imagination, and the right amount to make it sexy.

Lola Taboo Bikini by L*Space Swimwear

So keep up with the craze and view all of the L*Space products that have celebrities going gaga over, at http://www.theorchidboutique.com/l-space-swimwear.html

Sunkissed White Bikini by L*Space Swimwear

A few great options for beach side fashion are below:

Sunkissed White Bikini by L*Space Swimwear

The Sunkissed white bikini by L*Space Swimwear is one sexy bandeau swimsuit. The top has built in cups, so since it is a padded bikini, you don’t have to worry about it being see-through when you get out of the water. The top has a tie at mid bust which can be adjusted depending on comfort and fit. The back has a very unique string detail that ends in an intricate knot at the center. Just like the top, the bottom has the same knot details at each hip, and offers moderate coverage at the rear.

Lucca Dress by L*Space Swimwear

Now a white bikini looks great, but to complete the look, pairing it with a cute beach cover-up creates the perfect combination. The Lucca Dress by L*Space Swimwear is elegant and sophisticated. It has a slightly sheer crochet-like pattern that hides enough but also allows for visibility of the bikini you have underneath. Its three-quarter length sleeve ends in a solid hem, and its v-neck top provides gold button details along the neckline.

Lucca Dress by L*Space Swimwear

So be on trend with this winter white ensemble, a perfect duo for any time of year.