Karla Colletto X Design Army Pool Party August 22

On Friday, August 22, Karla Colletto X Design Army held an evening pool party at Capitol Skyline Hotel to celebrate the collaboration of their swimwear collection, Swim At Your Own Risk, a capsule collection designed by Karla Colletto and Design Army’s Chief Creative Officer Pum Lefebure.

Design Army Team poses with T.H.E. models in Swim At Your Own Risk collection
Photos by Kate Warren

Design Army’s Pum Lefebure & Karla Colletto’s Kim Thornton pose with the T.H.E. models

Models from T.H.E. Artist Agency, who posed on platforms by Amaryllis, Swim At Your Own Risk custom cookies by Occasions Catering, clever image taking by Onomonomedia, and inflatable alligators created a festive atmosphere for the 280 guests, who also enjoyed specialty cocktails, music from U.S. Royalty’s Paul Thornley, and a screening of Jaws.

T.H.E. models pose on Swim At Your Own Risk platforms

The Swim At Your Own Risk five-piece collection debuted in Miami this summer to rave reviews. “It has an athletic, sporty feel, but it’s also very sexy,” Lefebure says. “It has an ageless quality but also makes a statement.” The idea of Swim At Your Own Risk has an attitude and humor to it, which Karla Colletto X Design Army captured so well at the pool party.

Pum Lefebure with Guest of a Guest’s Morgan Evans
Photo Courtesy Guest of a Guest

Guests for the swimwear’s DC launch event included City Center’s Timothy Lowery, T.H.E. Artist Agency’s Lynda Erkiletian, ArtJamz’s Michael Clements and Anchyi Wei, and the entire Design Army team including Co-Founder and CEO Jake Lefebure and Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Pum Lefebure.

Featured photo courtesy of Guest of a Guest.

T.H.E. models enjoying Occasions Catering custom cookies

T.H.E. models pose on custom platforms

T.H.E. models making a splash

View from the DJ booth at the Capitol Skyline Hotel

Pum Lefebure poses in the photo booth with T.H.E. models