Vitamin A Swimwear is available in the Swimsuit Downtown Portland Boutique and the NE Portland Bathing Suit Boutique.

Feeling good in your skin means getting all the vitamin A your body needs!  We’re talking about Vitamin A swimsuits, of course, by designer Amahlia Stevens.
Only four perfectly cut little black bikinis comprised Vitamin A’s entire debut collection back in 2000, when the designer first unveiled her now ubiquitous “California Cut.”

Fast forward to 2011, Vitamin A bikinis are known as the LBB (the Little Black Bikini!) — the go-to choice when you want to feel instantly chic, sexy and slim.

The perfect fit is everything.
There are summer essentials every woman needs. Here is where you’ll definitely find that beloved black swimsuit. “A woman can’t have too many black bikinis,” says Stevens, “They’re super sexy in an understated way.”

It’s no wonder why celebs like Nicole Kidman, Sienna Miller, Chloe Sevigny, Jessica Alba and Cameron Diaz are loyal fans of the label. “I love creating designs and watching them come to life on my clients,” Stevens says. “That’s a never ending inspiration.”

The Vitamin A Silver collection, a hip new diffusion line, debuted this year to rave reviews from the press, and a new generation of trendsetters. Young Hollywood starlets like Miley Cyrus, Audrina Partridge, and AnnaLynne Mccord are snapping up these brightly colored reversible gems!

Amahlia is excited to announce her first green bikini collection. These ultra-sexy suits are made with a deliciously clean swimwear fabric, using 100% recycled nylon fiber. “I hope to turn heads and redefine the old image of ‘green as granola’ into ‘green as gorgeous, sleek and eco-chic.’” As if we need more reasons to don a Vitamin A, a portion of all proceeds will be donated to Heal The Bay.

Vitamin A swimwear is designed in Laguna Beach, California and produced in the USA. “I’m very proud of the fact that, while our competitors race offshore, Vitamin A is produced right here in sunny California,” Stevens says. This year, the California sun shines across the Atlantic, and this authentic Laguna Beach label is popping up in the best boutiques throughout Europe.

Here are a few looks from the Vitamin A 2011 collection:

Vix Swimwear is available in the Swimwear Downtown Portland Boutique and the NE Portland Swimsuit Boutique.

It’s fitting that Vix is named for the stunning beach city of Vitoria in Brazil, where founder Paula Hermanny was brought up and dreamed her first dreams of the style she wanted to bring to women’s swimwear.  As a little girl, Paula would gaze up at the jets flying through the clear blue Brazillian sky and imagine a woman with classic, yet modern tastes — a woman who traveled around the world from Vitoria’s small, exotic, airport and turned heads wherever she went, from Monte Carlo to Bali.

That woman grew up as the inspiration for Vix Swimwear and Paula’s revolutionary and stunning designs.  Even today, as she crafts her latest collections, Paula still pictures her imaginary world traveler and, in her minds eye, dresses her with visions of elegance and beauty.

“When I’m designing, I picture that woman, who represents everything there is about style,” Hermanny said.  “One year I might see her in St. Barts and I can picture what she’s going to be wearing and that image becomes the basis for my collection.”

Each year, Paula designs collections that honor the Vix woman.  While that vision evolves, year by year, soaking in the hottest new innovations in swimwear, the Vix style remains true to its roots of timeless elegance.  Vix’s trademark gold and leather accessories complement Paula’s fashion-woward interpretation of the season’s latest trends, which she studies on trips to Europe, Brazil and the world’s most sophisticated beach resorts.

For each collection, Paula melds simple, stylish lines with the latest materials and prints to create a selection unlike any other in the world of swimwear.  She comlements her unique swimwaer with a variety of delightful dresses, accessories and intricately textured wraps.  And, each year, Paula designs the Vix collection with mixing-and- matching in mind, so that each customer can collect a treasure chest of the year’s most celebrated designs that will remain jewels long into the future.

The Vix woman can rest assured that she will never grow old in the eyes of fashion, as her style rides in the waves of Paula Hermanny’s imagination and creativity.

Here are a few looks from the Vix 2011 collection:

L*Space Swimwear is available in the Swimwear Downtown Portland Boutique and the NE Portland Swimsuit Boutique.  In fact between our two stores Popina has the largest selection of L*Space Swimwear in Oregon.

Creative director and lead designer of L*Space, Monica Wise finds her inspiration both along the Southern California coast and every faraway beach paradise she visits. Monica also finds inspiration from the decades of designers before her, who paved the way in women’s swimwear ­– especially those in the 1960’s, who produced mod, trendsetting, timeless fashions.

Described as sophisticated beach chic, glam surfer girl, and most definitely fashion-forward swimwear, L*Space is an award-winning brand, having been recognized as SIMA’s (Surfwear Industry Manufacturer’s Association) swimwear brand of the year, as well as Monica herself being recognized as the 2010 Mercedes Benz designer of the year.

From her Corona del Mar beach bungalow, Monica continues to be inspired, continues to enjoy her beach lifestyle, and continues to create.

Here are a few looks from the 2011 collection:

Popina Swimwear in the Portland Pearl District of Downtown Portland is less than a 15 minute drive from Beaverton, Oregon.   Swimwear StorePopina Swimwear is the largest women’s swimwear store in the Northwest.  We offer over 25 brands of women’s swimwear plus cover ups, flip flops, sun hats and chemical free sun tan lotions.

Below is a photo of the front of the Pearl District Swimwear Boutiqueat 318 NW 11th Avenue (between NW Everett and NW Flanders).  Popina Swimwear is located on the Portland Streetcar line and is two blocks from Anthropology, Lucy and Lululemon.  Nordstrom is a quick ride on the Portland Streetcar.  Also an easy bus ride or light rail line from many areas of Beaverton.

Popina Swimwear is centrally located to serve Beaverton Oregon for Swimsuits and is worth the short drive.  This is particularly the case if you live in Beaverton and work in downtown, why not stay a little late after work to avoid some traffic or congestion on the bus?

Portland Swimsuit Bus Bench Campaign by Popina Swimwear has just been rolled out to the Westside of Portland.

We initially had success in Northeast Portland Southeast Portland and North Portland with our initial bus bench campaign with the following design

This bench can be found on North Mississippi, Northeast Alberta, Northeast 33rd Avenue by Grant High School and Southeast Hawthorn on NE 42nd Avenue.

With the new campaign we got together with the creative genius Portland Graphic Designer Dot Zero and the amazing Portland Copywriter Tom Vandel with Les Overhead.  Tom’s idea was to create a bus bench campaign where there would be six different benches and we would rotate them around our benches to keep the advertisement interesting.

So here are the initial benches that have gone up on the Portland Westside

This bench is starting in Northeast Portland at the Lloyd Center, in front of the Lloyd Center on Multnomah Boulevard in front of the Nordstrom main entrance.

This bench is located in the Portland Pearl District in Downtown Portland at the corner of Northwest Glisan and Northwest 12th in front of Starbucks.

This bench is located on the shopping district of Northwest 23rd Nob Hill neighborhood on the corner of Northwest Lovejoy and Northwest 23rd

We also have two more benches going up one in Multnomah Village and one going up in Hillsdale on the corner of Southwest Capitol Highway and Terwilliger Boulevard

 I love advertising with bus benches, if you would like to find out more contact Tammy Reynolds at Lamar Advertising her phone number is 503.223.9796 e-mail is treynolds@lamar.com

Come and visit our new Pearl District Swimwear Boutique at 318 NW 11th Avenue between NW Everett and NW Flanders

Portland Swimwear Boutique Popina Swim is opening a Pearl District Swimwear Store.  This will be the second bathing suit shop in Portland for Popina.  The first store was opened in 2005 and has gained growing popularity for Popina’s unique ability to create a fun, comfortable environment to do the thing that a lot of ladies dread buying a swimsuit.  The grand opening of the new Pearl District Swimwear store will be November 4th First Thursday.  Stay tuned for more info.

Popina Swimwear will be opening their second location in Portland’s Downtown Pearl District in November 2010!  Once open, the Popina Pearl store will be the largest women’s swimwear store in the Northwest.  The Pearl store will have a similar feel to the Northeast Portland store, but will be brought up a notch with all that owner/designer Pamela Levenson has learned in the past five years.  The goal with the Pearl store is to create a world class swimwear store where women have fun shopping for bathing suits.  Come in for a visit to compare the two shops and look for First Thursday Travel events with expert guest speakers!

There will be a huge grand opening party set for First Thursday 11/4 (from 6-9pm) - it will be a blow out!  Beverages will be provided by New Deal Vodka, Kona Brewing and Hip Chicks do Wine.  Cupcakes Jones will be providing….Cupcakes.  Studio Luxe in the Pearl will be providing free nail changes and cosmetic consultations.  Plus there will be a fashion show produced by Frayn Masters of Back Fence PDX!  Thank you for helping us grow, please come help us kick off Popina Pearl in style we want to party with you!

Here is our list of models:

1. Alison Hallett, Arts & Web Editor for The Portland Mercury
2. Marjorie Skinner, Portland Mercury Managing Editor
3. Viva Las Vegas, Writer, Singer, Famous PDX Stripper
4. Monica Drake, Wrote the amazing novel, Clown Girl (Hawthorne Books)
5. Nora Robertson, Host of New Oregon Interview Series
6. Joan Hiller Depper, Owner of Riot Act Media
7. Sadie Medley, Actress, voice over artist, and designer
8. Michelle Erickson, Copywriter and awesome gal
9. Annie Wilkins, Writer
10. Nathalie Weinstein, Back Fence PDX assistant
11. Pat Janowski, Siren of Sound for Live Wire! Radio
12. Sarah Hoopes, Posts her teenage diary entries from 15 years ago
13. Anne Adams, Culterphile writer at Portland Monthly
14. Haley Talbot, Actres, Performed with the oregon Ballet Theatre

Plus the cherry on the sundae is that Alaska Airlines, in celebration of Popina Pearl opening in November, has offered two round trip tickets to Hawaii as the Club Maillot prize (Popina’s VIP Club).

Jantzen Swimwear as seen on Mad Men is still in business and available for sale.  Popina Swimwear offers a wide variety if Jantzen Vamp styles - see below:

We also offer many styles of Vintage Swimwear or Retro SwimwearBikini Styles.  Similar to Jantzen Bikinis featured in Mad Men, check out these great bottoms:

Looking to Inner Tube at a local river near Portland?  Maybe Clackamas River Tubing , Sandy River Tubing or Wilson River?

Or maybe you are a true river lover and you need an inner tube for THE BIG FLOAT (7/26/15)?

Look no further than Popina Swimwear to gear you up for all your tubing needs.

Popina has Four options:

The Basic River Rat Model - $15

The next step up would be your River Run.  This would be your middle of the road model.  The River Run features a backrest and drink holders.  $30

RIVER RUN II

Finally got someone close you like to tube with?  Why not double up with the River Run II?  Features two seats, back rests, drink holders and a generous built in cooler. $56

We also recommend oars with this craft as it is very hard to hand paddle with one hand per couple - Optional Oars $20

How about accessories?

A must for a hot summer day is a floating cooler $20

You MUST have a pump, very bad idea to try to blow one of these baby’s up manually with your mouth.  We offer two, an electric model that plugs into your car lighter (pictured with regular plug) $15

Or a manual high output double output manual hand pump for $20

You can pick up an inner tube at one of Popina’s two locations!

Pinup Swimwear Styles by Popina Swim are throwback chic.  Of designer Pamela Levenson’s different Retro Swimsuits in the the collection, the Retro Halter One Piece Bathing Suit is the most inspired by Pinup Swimsuit styles.  Here are a few pictures of this style: