Bikini Backlash

Dazzling one-piece designer swimsuits

This summer’s dazzling one-piece designer swimsuits show that tee strings and those two little triangles are so tres-trashy Hollywood–yesterday’s look. Let these sleek, modern numbers–hot color of the moment, earthy brown–sculpt your style sensibility, with sexy discretion, for the beach and pool. Here’s a gallery of the hottest bathing suits of the season (including the We Are Handsome-label bandeau suit, $272 pictured above). Don’t, however, expect to see Lindsay, Britney or Pamela wearing any of them…which is the point.