Anna Kosturova
Swimwear designer
Anna Kosturova Swim
and Resortwear
F
or swim- and resort-wear designer
Anna Kosturova, less has indeed
been more. A free spirit who
bristled under Communist rule in
the former Czechoslovakia, Kosturova left the
landlocked country of her birth to live by the
ocean. Then another escape – this time from
a particularly grey West Coast winter –
changed her life. While shopping for a bikini
for a trip to Australia, Kosturova couldn't find
one she liked. "So I designed it," she
remembers. That very first bikini, a fully
sequined lime-and-turquoise crochet stripe,
is still sold on her website as the "Beach
Goddess" (above). The particularly divine
design was also the first of her creations to
grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit Edition in 2008. Since then, her sexy
suits have (barely) covered the best bikini
bods in showbiz with a celebrity following
that includes Mariah Carey, Jennifer Aniston,
Paris Hilton, Hilary Swank and Cindy
Crawford. Meanwhile, Kosturova stays far
from the glamour of Hollywood, instead
choosing to work out of her home, a shabbychic loft on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
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