Planet Fashion, a fashion media and event production company owned by Celia Evans, just concluded their June Miami Swim Week runway shows collection at Hyde Beach at SLS Hotel Miami. This year Planet Fashion produced the first adaptive fashion show—clothing for the disabled—at Swim Week. The rest of the shows were also striking: they illustrated glamor and style; inclusivity of people with disabilities, people of color, and male designers of female clothing; and environmental sustainability.
There were many highlights of the Planet Fashion Shows, including:
Celebrity Models: Katharina Mazepa of The Real Housewives of Miami and her boyfriend Lenny Hochstein, along with Jenifer Terry (a model for Kim Kardashian’s Skims campaign). Mazepa and Terry both walked for Chloe Rose Swim.
The First Adaptive Fashion Swim Show with a collection by Keisha Grieves, diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, for people with disabilities. Adaptive clothing makes getting dressed and functioning within clothes more accessible, an innovative garment that makes life easier for the wearer. Adaptive clothing has been featured on the Today Show and Forbes.
Sustainability Fashion Shows featuring Beau Swim, whose collection is made from ECONYL, made from ocean waste and plastic water bottles, and donates a portion from every sale to the ROLE foundation, who educate businesses on how to be more sustainable; and Origin of Oceans, who donate to The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization developing and scaling technologies to rid the world’s oceans of plastic.
Men who design women’s Swimwear: Vasaro from Los Angeles, a Harvard graduate with a patented swimwear design, and VEVE swim from Las Vegas, aiming toward a demographic of college aged women.
African American/Jamaican designer Keva J, celebrity stylist of tropical looks for the Real housewives of Atlanta and actress Neicy Nash.
Battle of The Tape: Miami Art Body Tape by Andrei Stamate, a former student of the Black Tape Project. The two body tape performers are at war over who will dominate this style of performance art.
Venezuelan Swim Brand Tinye: Pronounced “Tiny”, this brand brought the heat with their ultra small swimwear trend.
As the owner of Planet Fashion, Celia Evans has an impressive career history, having produced shows for 13 years for renowned brands including Robert Cavalli, Forever 21, Lacoste, and Sean John, as well as the first Trans Swim Fashion Show in 2019 and the first fully plus size show. She always includes sustainability shows in swim week.
Planet Fashion and Paraiso production companies moved their Swim Week shows to June this year to make the shows more viable for designers. The weekend of Swimwear Fashion Shows was a coordinated departure from July Swim Week dates to June by Paraiso and Planet Fashion production companies. It is better to show swim collections at the beginning of the summer season rather than in the middle of it so that shoppers have plenty of time to buy their swimwear for the season.
