cheek to cheek; These fancy French swimsuits stay put so you can chill out and dive in.(bikinis made by fashion designer Andrea Fullenbach)(Brief article)

Byline: Jane Herman

We are obsessed with bathing-suit cuts and fit, and there never being enough to cover-do you use this word?-the tooshie." Designer Andrea Fullenbach is explaining in near-perfect En-glish, with a German-French accent, how she and her friend Natascha Sayn Wittgenstein came up with the name for their new swimwear line. "So rarely is what's behind covered nicely without being like a grandmother's bathing suit," she says.

Streamlined and deceptively simple, Tooshie bikinis and one-pieces are something of an homage to the late Birgitta af Klercker, Sayn Wittgenstein's mother and Fullenbach's close friend, who was also a model for Vogue in the late sixties. "She had amazing character and strength and style and personality," Fullenbach says. "We started with that."

And from there, they ran with it: The collection's candy colors are from a Damien Hirst painting of polka dots that Fullenbach ...