About Us

A MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNER....
Lila Nikole Collection is a brand that promises to provide fresh, funky, styles constantly evolving and growing into your favorite swimwear brand. We use elements from everyday life like music, love, travels, and life experiences when designing our collection. Each design is infused with heart and designed to keep all of our beloved consumers in mind! We appreciate the love and support from all of you who chose us as your go to lifestyle brand.

The Lila Nikole Collection is led by our fearless designer, Lila Nikole Rivera. Lila’s design aesthetic is what keep the fans coming! Lila Nikole Collection was born in 2009 and has continued flourishing into a powerhouse brand. With each passing year, the momentum continues to build as a direct result from the efforts of our creative team and visionary. Our designs, manufacturing, and creative process is made in the sunny city of Miami, infused by the culture and melting pot of eclectic elements our city bolsters.

The Lila Nikole Collection has graced the pages of such magazine publications as Vogue, Elle, Sports Illustrated, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, GQ,  and many more. Her work has been paired with a great number of celebrities from Will Smith, Kim Kardashian, Jenny McCarthy, Keyshia Cole,Serena Williams, Chrissy Tiegen, Sara Underwood, Gigi Hadid, Amrezy, which resulted in her becoming labeled as the celebrity’s favorite swimwear designer. The list continues to grow.

Lila lead the costume designs for Super Bowl LV Half Time Show, 2021 for the Weeknds sensational performance. Lila has also collaborated with 10 NFL teams and 2 NBA teams to provide swimwear for the cheerleader’s swimsuit calendar, including custom design suits for the kick of the NFL season event and HBO’s Hard Knocks: Miami Dolphins. Her ability to design impeccable, creative and fresh designs continues to evolve into multiple TV productions, fashion editorials, commercials music videos including CNN Español, BET Rip The Runway shows, Fashion TV for Best Swimwear, Nuestra Belleza Latina Univision, Grand Opening for the W Fort Lauderdale, and has been featured in the Sports Illustrated 50th Anniversary swim issue.

The Lila Nikole Collection was a vision, built from the ground up into a successful business on the drive and initiative of the designer, and Lila Nikole’s journey of success that created a powerful swimwear brand has not gone unnoticed. Her ability to build her company to where it is, made her a subject of interest in a collegiate psychology class, becoming one of the subject features in the latest edition of the Feldman University Psychology Course Text Book.

Lila Nikole has become one of the fashion industry's leading swimwear designers. Lila Nikole Collection not just been successful in business, but in the nature of giving back as well. Being involved with such charities and foundations as Project Save Imagination, Make A Wish, Boys & Girls Club of Miami, Food Bank For Hunger NYC, Chapman Partnership for Women and Children, Share Our Strength, and even Miami Dolphins Cystic Fibrosis, Lila Nikole understands that success is not just about what one can achieve for themselves, but also how well they serve others.

Lila Nikole Rivera knows the importance of giving back to the community and how important it is to help children further their education. In 2012, Project Save Imagination was created. The purpose of this foundation is to keep the arts a vital part of children’s lives and education in order to inspire, empower and further enhance their imagination, creativity, and ability of self-expression. 

Driven Inspiration: 

Project Save Imagination is a 501 C non profit charity based initiative that aims to support students who have an avid interest in the arts but may not have the money or opportunity to pursue their dreams. We at Project Save Imagination would like to help provide for, assist, and support any and all Arts and Music Programs, locally and nationally, that possess a means and safe haven for underprivileged or at risk youth to be introduced to the various forms of artistic creativity. We will do our part in aiding the collaborative efforts of other foundations to implement art integration in impoverished communities and schools. A child’s mind is a precious and fragile thing, full of wonderment, vitality, and amazing capabilities, and as it is important for their development and functionality to learn Math, Science, Social Studies, and English/Literature, it is equally important to learn and enhance their creative thinking and imagination through the arts. 

Lack of funding should not be an excuse to deny a child a healthy portion of their development by allowing them to discover a special talent they may have, or simply enhancing their confidence in having the ability to express themselves through various means. That being said, ultimately, we aim to see arts programs not only return to the education system, in all schools, but also see it established as part of their core curriculum. Whether it’s music, painting, drawing, creative writing, theatre, or photography, it all should be available for any and all youth on their road to adulthood. 

The Reason: 

It’s no secret that when public schools undergo budget cuts, the first on the chopping block are the arts programs. In this growing climate of assessment based education, where creativity and imagination get put on the back burner to core academic tests that are the basis to measure achievement, some of the school boards and superintendents seem to gravely overlook the vital benefits of the arts and the role it can play in a child’s overall development. 

Obviously we understand the essential need for the core basics of education like Math, Science, and English/Literature, but the enhancement of a child’s creativity is just as crucial to their learning process. It all plays a vital part, and the monotony of the core basics need to blend with the element of a child’s need to express themselves creatively and artistically, which provides a more well-rounded education. A child doesn’t have to be the next Mozart or Van Gogh to benefit from experiencing the arts and its ability to help them reach their full potential. A mind with a greater freedom of imagination can reach greater peaks of growth and the inception of great ideas, and this world of ours faces enormous challenges because of the absence of great ideas. 

It was the breakthrough of art, after all, that took us from the Neanderthal to the forward thinking human beings we became, and we intend to save and enhance imagination, one striving youth at a time. We intend to save imagination one student at a time! 

Charites we have worked with: 

Project Save Imagination
Art Studio Miami
Susan G komen
Chapman Partnership for Women and Children
DJ Irie Foundation
Friends Of South Beach
Project Save Imagination
Soulfrito Arts Foundation
Art For Progress
Make A Wish
Boys & Girls Club of Miami
Share Our Strength
Garden of Eden AIDS Benefit
Food Bank For Hunger NYC
Miami Dolphins Cystic Fibrosis