
This article looks at a curation of homegrown resortwear labels designed for summer travel, focusing on brands that balance swimwear, ease, and versatility across beach and leisure settings. It highlights labels like Vitamin Di, GUAPA, Verandah, and IZSI, examining how each approaches resort dressing through lightweight silhouettes, handcrafted production, sustainability, and travel-oriented design.
Summer’s here and if you're lucky you'll get to sneak away for a little vacation — a beach, a resort, somewhere you can just slow down a bit. You picture the usual: pool time, long afternoons, stepping out for a drink or a quick bite, maybe walking around without a plan. And you realise pretty quickly that what you’re wearing needs to work across all of that. Something you can wear by the water but also sit in at a café without feeling too bare or out of place. Easy sets, light fabrics, pieces you don’t have to keep adjusting or thinking about. Resortwear — sundresses, rompers, stylish swimwear, kaftans, tunics, sarongs — is really what you end up reaching for on a trip like this. Here are some homegrown brands on our radar that get resortwear right.
Vitamin Di is a Goa-based swim and resortwear label founded by Rhea Tharakan, built around performance-focused swimwear and beach clothing. The brand uses ECONYL regenerated nylon across its swim line, a material made from discarded fishing nets and industrial waste, with double-lined construction and adjustable straps for fit and durability. Its clothing line includes cotton and linen pieces designed for high heat and humidity, with simple silhouettes.. The label produces in small batches and focuses on long-wear use in water and sun, with pieces designed for repeated swimming, salt exposure and extended outdoor use.
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GUAPA is a Delhi-based resortwear label by Reby Jindal, built around travel-focused clothing with easy silhouettes and bold, print-led pieces. The brand works across dresses, co-ord sets, kaftans, swimwear and cover-ups, with multiple collections like Under the Palms, Zen Garden, Island Collection and P.O.N.D.I, each tied to specific travel references and seasonal drops . Its swimwear line uses fabric made from recycled ocean and landfill waste, alongside reversible styles and bright colour palettes . The design approach centres on functional, comfortable clothing that can be dressed up or down.
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Verandah is a Mumbai-based conscious luxury resortwear label founded by Anjali Patel Mehta, a former investment banker who started the brand while looking for travel-ready, boho-luxe summer clothing . The brand works across resortwear, swimwear and ready-to-wear, built on hand-illustrated prints, fine embroideries and artisanal fabrics sourced and produced in India . Each collection is tied to a specific reference — from Ranthambore tigers to Jaisalmer and Goa — with design built around those narratives . Verandah operates on small-batch production and circular design systems, using materials like organic cotton, Ecovero and Bemberg, with swimwear produced in Italy and apparel made in India.
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IZSI is a swim and resortwear label founded by Shilpi Mishra and Vezotolu Vadeo, who met at NIFT and built the brand around handcrafted, small-batch production . The label produces swimsuits, kaftans, dresses and coordinated sets using in-house developed prints like Oriental Poppy, Jasmine Wave and Noir, with each collection tied to specific visual themes . Pieces are made by local artisans with slight variations kept as part of the final garment .The brand offers custom sizing from XXS to 6XL and produces both womenswear and menswear, including swim trunks and matching sets . Its design approach focuses on creating holiday clothing that can move from beach to casual settings, with an emphasis on print.
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