Latest swimsuit fashion brought to you by The Black Tape Project at Miami Swim Week

2018-07-23 13:05 Last Updated At：13:05

The latest fashion!

While it's now summer, a beautiful swimsuit can help you become the highlight in the crowd. When girls are bothering what kind of swimsuit can win the eyesight of the public, the brand The Black Tape Project broke the traditional rule to create "tape bikini" and showed at Miami Swim Week since last Sunday (15th July).

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The Black Tape Project was founded by photography Joel Alvarez who set up the brand by sticking tapes in different shapes and colours on models' body directly to create the unique bikinis.

Diverse cutting patterns, avant-garde designs and various styles, all are reasons people to go see the show. However, models in such the sexy outfits are also the spots of the event.

The tapes can barely cover the models' breasts and their private parts, which many netizens say they can imagine how painful it can be when they got the tapes torn off.

Joel had his first idea of tape bikini in 2008 when he was taking pictures for a model who had asked him to stick tapes on her body. He started with a roll of black thin wire tape.

He said his first design was like a "wrapping Christmas tree", which is not aesthetic, but the experience ignited his design potential to initiate the "cut and paste" work on models.

Joel's creations were only appreciated by nightclubs at first until he attended a charity function to design for Miss Puerto Rico in Haiti and was captured.

He was then known by many people and interviewed by local radio and magazines.

Even though now being famous, he received varied comments towards his works. Some think that they are artistic while some say those designs are erotic and exaggerating.

Premier Padel tour to make its US debut with tournament in Miami

2025-03-07 23:48 Last Updated At：03-08 00:01

Lionel Messi likes to play padel in his free time with his Inter Miami teammates.

Rafael Nadal was recently seen playing shots off the glass on a padel court at his academy in Spain.

So what’s all the fuss about this other racket sport?

Well, an American audience is about to find out as the Premier Padel tour makes its debut in the U.S. this month with a tournament in Miami.

And it’s not just an exhibition featuring retired tennis players as has been the case with pickleball.

Premier Padel is a worldwide circuit and similarly to the pro tennis tours it features four major tournaments at venues like Roland Garros in Paris and the Foro Italico in Rome.

The Miami tournament is a P1-level event that lies just below the majors in terms of importance — kind of like the Miami Open tennis tournament.

“I am convinced that there will be a before and an after with Premier Padel coming to Miami. Just like in Paris and Rome and everywhere that Premier Padel goes,” Fernando Belasteguín, the recently retired padel standout who is the Miami tournament director, told The Associated Press.

Played in doubles inside a cage that is smaller than a tennis court, padel is a cross between tennis and squash with players allowed to hit the ball off the glass and metallic mesh walls that surround the court.

The tournament will be played March 18-23 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

While this is not the first elite padel event in the U.S., it’s the first since Premier Padel and the World Padel Tour merged to form a single streamlined global tour that started last year.

The World Padel Tour held tournaments in Miami in 2017 and 2022 — ancient history in the rapidly growing world of padel.

The number of padel courts in the U.S. has increased by 186% over the past two years, according to a study by the International Padel Federation, with more than 650 courts spread across 31 states.

“It’s not just year to year, it’s month by month that padel is growing in the U.S,” Belasteguín said.

Florida is a padel hotbed and features nearly half of the nation’s courts.

“The Latin community is the pulsating heart of the sport in Miami,” Belasteguín said. “But every American who gets to know padel stays with it. Because it’s a sport that you fall in love with very quickly. The Latinos brought the sport to the U.S. and now Americans are falling in love with it, too.”

AP sports: https://apnews.com/sports