Inside Kelly Killoren Bensimon’s H.O.T. Bodies Dinner At Miami Swim Week

We would know type icon Kelly Killoren Bensimon as the previous supermodel who graced the pages of Elle and Cosmopolitan, or for her function in Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis. Extra just lately, she is a luxurious actual property agent with Douglas Elliman on the Discovery+ TV present, Promoting The Hamptons.

Final evening, she hosted a dinner on the Kimpton Hotel Palomar in Miami referred to as H.O.T. Our bodies. The occasion featured fashions carrying the newest swimwear by movie star swim designer Melissa Odabash, whose appears have been worn by Rihanna and Kate Moss, whereas DJ Kristian Caro spun tribal beats with trumpet performed by Vincent Raffard from the French Horn Collective. Then, a bunch of synchronized swimmers referred to as the Aqualillies (who’re a favourite of Dita Von Teese), splashed across the rooftop pool to an adoring crowd, whereas company checked out a bracelet sales space from the Little Words Project.

The scene—which included Bensimon’s H.O.T. Our bodies Listing for 2022—have been ushered downstairs to the Osteria Morini restaurant the place the chief chef Invoice Dorrler showcased their new Mediterranean summer time menu, which is impressed by Italy’s Amalfi Coast.

In line with Bensimon, H.O.T. Our bodies (which stands for Wholesome Choices As we speak), is her mantra for wholesome delicacies and making sensible decisions together with your each day habits. It’s virtually an extension of her 2012 e book, I Can Make You Hot! The Supermodel Diet, which has 60 recipes for wholesome consuming, and vitamin suggestions. Earlier than her dinner, Bensimon spoke in regards to the early days of Miami Swim Week and being a blogger in 2006.

Forbes: Inform me, how did H.O.T. Our bodies come about?

Kelly Bensimon: We partnered with the Altamarea Group, which has places everywhere in the world, so I could make you sizzling. Not solely can I make you sizzling, however I wrote the bikini e book that began Miami Swim Week with Lycra and IMG. I’m so pleased to be again in Miami to rejoice swim week with meals, household, and many enjoyable at Morini with a Mediterranean weight-reduction plan.

Can you’re taking us again to the primary Miami Swim Week?

I wrote The Bikini Book for Lyra, and I used to be a mannequin for IMG. They liked the e book, and I had simply come off the heels of being the editor of Elle Equipment, and a lot was occurring in my world. Miami needed to do one thing that may deliver new eyes to Miami. I realized the right way to create vitality and convey totally different concepts to markets. From my beginnings as a mannequin after I was 15, to now, I do know what’s nice about Miami and south Florida, it was an ideal concept for me to discover and rejoice this unimaginable metropolis.

What’s H.O.T. Our bodies?

I’m right here to rejoice sizzling our bodies! With the swimsuit presentation by Melissa Odabash, she is likely one of the finest swimwear designers right this moment—the Kardashians put on it, I put on it, Elle Macpherson wears it, it’s a spectacular line that has sustained a few years.

You’re on the middle of the crossover between style and luxurious actual property, the place is the intersection for you?

There isn’t any intersection, its simply all below the identical life-style umbrella. I’ve all the time been a way of life arbiter and synthesizer, tonight we’re right here to rejoice nice meals and life-style, and attention-grabbing folks doing attention-grabbing issues, that makes you sizzling. To me.

Occasions like Miami Swim Week, with excellent fashions on the runway, can set off physique dysmorphia in folks.

Completely. Give it some thought, in the event you’re a mannequin in Miami Swim Week, you’re making an attempt to be as wholesome as potential. It isn’t simply trying up at folks although, a number of ladies are strolling on the seashore, the picture and perspective of ladies is totally different. We’re seeing extra, totally different physique sorts and totally different faces on the runways, that’s tremendous thrilling.

What designer are you carrying tonight?

Retrofête. They’re a younger model that’s straightforward to put on, they’ve a number of shorts and funky denims. I’m 54. I nonetheless need to look good. This costume feels good, it’s a bit bit unfastened. I feel there’s a brand new approach of dressing, the place so long as you be ok with your self, simply go for it.

What are your summer time necessities on your closet?

I’ve two ladies, 22 and 24, and so they inform me my closet is the perfect place to buy! They’re all the time inspiring me to put on totally different garments.

What are your 5 summer time necessities?

I feel each single girl ought to have a bikini. Each physique kind, each stroll of life, I’ve seen ladies in Ibiza of their 80s in bikinis. What I really like in regards to the bikini is that it’s so democratic. A bikini grew to become one thing ladies needed to put on within the Jet Age, who noticed this new life-style. It was a brand new departure for us. I additionally love a compulsory excessive heel. Sq.-toe footwear are in every single place from Steve Madden to Bottega Veneta. A pair of sun shades which can be greater and bulkier like Ray Ban’s. I additionally assume tighter bodycon clothes are stylish. I additionally assume stylish headbands are key, too. And a shawl. Additionally, I really like kimonos, we’re seeing them on all of the runways—for males, and girls. We’re seeing a number of combine and match. I feel the bottom line is to put on what you like and really feel actually good about it.

What recommendation do it’s important to style influencers right this moment?

That you’ve got a powerful narrative. For me, I’ve had a lot enjoyable creating a brand new meals narrative, which has been attention-grabbing to me. Younger persons are touring and studying extra, and studying extra about meals, type, skincare, magnificence and make-up. It’s a story.

You’re additionally hardworking!

I’m a curious human, and being sizzling is all about wholesome choices right this moment. I did write I Can Make You Scorching! The Supermodel Weight-reduction plan, and “H.O.T.” stands for wholesome choices right this moment. Residing in Miami, this wholesome life-style is essential. I’ve two daughters and provides them aware concepts of consuming, forecasting the entire physique shaming again in 2006, I used to be the editor of Elle Equipment. After I wrote The Bikini Guide, I wrote that it was a celebration of each girl, each dimension. As a result of earlier than that, we had solely seen an ideal girl. I really like imperfection, magnificence from all totally different walks of life, and I’m so pleased I used to be capable of forecast that with The Bikini Guide with Assouline.