Bikini Set
Triangle Bikini Set, Black
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Our story
How RELLECIGA works, and why it only makes swimwear
RELLECIGA is a Paris atelier that makes swimwear and nothing else. That sounds like a limitation and it is the opposite: a house that also makes dresses treats a swimsuit as one product among forty, and a swimsuit is the hardest garment in a wardrobe to get right.
It has to hold a body in motion, survive salt and chlorine, dry on a balcony and still look like something on the second day of a holiday. Nothing else in a suitcase is asked to do all four.
We start at the pattern, not the print
A print sells a swimsuit in a photograph. The pattern decides whether it is worn twice or thirty times. So the order of work here runs cut first, fit second, colour last. That order is what brings the same shape back season after season in a new colourway rather than replacing it with a new shape every spring.
It also explains the shape of the range below. A department is not a season or a mood, it is a cut: sets, bottoms, tops, one pieces, tankinis and the layers that go over them.
| Department | Pieces | Colourways | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bikini Sets | 161 | 29 | $8.49 |
| Swim Bottoms | 148 | 22 | $7.49 |
| One-Piece Swimsuits | 83 | 27 | $26.99 |
| Swim Tops | 83 | 17 | $12.99 |
| Tankinis | 68 | 23 | $12.59 |
| Cover-Ups and Long Sleeve | 41 | 17 | $16.19 |
What we make and what we do not claim
We design swimwear and we sell it. We do not weave the fabric, we do not run a dye house, and we will not tell you our looms run through the night. What the atelier can tell you is how a piece is cut, what it covers, how much it holds and where it is going to disappoint you.
That last part matters more in swimwear than anywhere else, because the failure modes are specific and nobody prints them. A bandeau does not stay up in surf. A string triangle carries almost no weight. A pale swimsuit goes translucent when it is wet. Saying so costs a sale now and again and saves a return every time.
Colour is the second decision, and it is a real one
Ask somebody what they are looking for in swimwear and the answer is rarely a silhouette. It is black, or that green, or leopard. So the range repeats a shade across cuts on purpose, and the colour map further down this page is the fastest way through it.
Shades run in batches, which means two pieces bought months apart will be close rather than identical. That is how dyeing works, and we would rather write it here than have you find it out holding a top against a bottom.
Price, and what it actually buys
Most of the range sits between fifteen and forty dollars. At that end a piece is one fabric, a clean seam and a light lining, and it will do a season of real wear. Higher up there is structure: moulded cups, boning, hand-set trim, and the pieces at the top of the range are made in numbers small enough that they go and do not come back.
Neither end is a trick. What the atelier will not do is dress the cheap end up as the expensive one. So the cut goes on the card, and the comparison table further down says out loud which cut holds and which one only looks like it does.
