HANDMADE IN BARCELONA, PIECE BY PIECE
Making bikinis just to make bikinis always felt easy. Making them with soul is another thing.
That’s why I’d never designed a swimwear collection before. I needed to know why it existed before I sewed the first stitch. The answer came when I realized the sea is also an intimate place, just in a different way: not the intimacy of a bedroom, but the feeling of sun on skin, of walking into the water and forgetting, for a moment, how you look so you can remember how you feel.
That’s how Sartori sul Mare was born — my first bikini collection, handmade in my Barcelona atelier.
Why Roman Goddesses, and Why Imperfect Ones
For this collection, I looked to Roman mythology to find names. Not because those goddesses were perfect, but for the exact opposite reason.
Mythology speaks of power, yes, but also of contradiction, desire, jealousy, intuition, strength, and vulnerability. Its gods feel, doubt, get things wrong, and start again. What makes Roman goddesses fascinating isn’t their perfection — it’s their imperfection, their intensity, their fire. Maybe that’s why their stories are still told thousands of years later: they’re about us, complex, interesting, deep women.
I didn’t want to dress anyone up as a goddess. I wanted to imagine how they’d dress today if they spent a summer by the Mediterranean. Not as marble figures, but as real women who find, in the sea, a place to feel strong, present, and fully themselves.
The Goddesses Behind Each Bikini
REGINA – QUEEN OF THE ROMAN OLYMPUS
Juno
She owns it. Nothing else to prove.
Juno was the most important goddess in the Roman pantheon — queen of the gods, protector of women, marriage, and the Roman state. She held the highest place on Olympus, and never by force, only by authority. The top that lifts without any padding is named after her: it doesn’t transform the body, it simply accompanies it. She has presence, and presence always outlasts noise.
GODDESS OF THE HUNT AND THE MOON
Diana
Freedom looks good on you.
Diana was the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and the wild. She moved through the forest alone, answering to no one, more at home in nature than in any palace. The Brazilian bottom carries her name because true independence never needs permission. Freedom looks good on you.
MAGNA MATER – GODDESS OF THE EARTH
Cybele
Untamed. Unmistakably elegant.
Cybele — the Magna Mater — was worshipped even before Rome existed. She was the goddess of the earth, fertility, and untamed nature, often pictured beside lions: a power that was never meant to be domesticated. The minimal thong takes her name because her construction is barely there, yet nothing about her presence is quiet.
GODDESS OF THE HARVEST AND ABUNDANCE
Ceres
Balance looks beautiful.
Ceres was the goddess of agriculture, the harvest, and fertility — the one who represented the cycle of life and the generosity of the land. The mid-rise bottom shares that same idea of balance: neither too covered nor too bare, comfort and sensuality working together instead of against each other.
GODDESS OF THE SEA
Salacia
Quiet on the surface. Infinite underneath.
Salacia was the Roman goddess of the sea, wife of Neptune. Her name comes from the Latin sal, and she was linked to deep waters and to a kind of beauty that never needs to announce itself. The triangle top carries her name for the same reason: quiet on the surface, infinite underneath.
GODDESS OF THE WISDOM AND STRATEGY
Minerva
Every detail has a purpose.
Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, strategy, and the arts — not impulsive strength, but the ability to observe, understand, and act with intention. The one-piece swimsuit is named after her: every seam, every line, is a decision.
The Gold That Shows Through
If you know Sartori, you’ll know the gold isn’t accidental. Every piece in the collection carries a gold-toned detail: Juno’s centerpiece, Cybele’s hardware, Salacia’s clasps.
Gold takes me back to classical sculpture, to temples lit by Mediterranean light. But it also stands for something closer to home: we all carry our own shine, even when it isn’t always visible, and it shows through when it’s ready to. Those gold details are there to remind us of that.
The Fabrics Tell Their Own Story Too
Reptile
Transformation — like skin that sheds and renews itself, without ever stopping being what it was underneath.
Textured black
Elegance doesn’t live in the color alone; it lives in the detail you can feel.
White
A rich, layered white — not easy purity, but complexity.
A collection inspired by women who, like those goddesses, are intense, contradictory, complex, and deeply human.
Because, in the end, mythology has always been about the same thing: trying to understand who we are.
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