Brooks Nader has once again turned the beach into her personal runway, this time taking a vintage Saint Laurent lace dress into the Mediterranean during a glamorous getaway in St Tropez.
The 29-year-old model and Baywatch actress was seen entering the water at Club 55 on Friday, 21 August, wearing a white lace dress.
The daring fashion choice comes just days after Nader went viral for jumping into the water in Italy wearing a Gucci dress and heels, making her latest swimwear statement look less like a one-off and more like a distinctly unconventional approach to holiday dressing.
While most beachgoers would reserve a delicate vintage designer dress for dinner or photographs on dry land, Nader appeared to have other plans.
Her latest St Tropez outing put luxury fashion directly on the sea, and once again left her followers with a memorable holiday look.
Brooks Nader Takes Vintage YSL Into the Water
Nader's white lace Saint Laurent dress brought a distinctly retro feel to the French Riviera setting, with the vintage design contrasting sharply with the decidedly impractical decision to wear it into the water.
She also shared photographs from her St Tropez trip on Instagram, posing in the Saint Laurent dress away from the sea. Alongside the images, she wrote 'happy place', adding a French flag and white heart emoji.
The model later made her love of vintage fashion clear on Instagram Stories, writing: 'Never met a vintage dress I didn't love.'
That admission makes her latest fashion risk particularly fitting. Rather than treating the vintage piece as something that needs to be carefully protected, Nader has seemingly embraced the freedom to wear her favourite designs wherever the occasion takes her, even if that means taking them for a swim.
Her choice also follows another headline-making fashion stunt from earlier in the week, when she jumped into the water in Italy wearing a Gucci dress and heels.
The back-to-back appearances have given her holiday wardrobe an unexpected theme: designer dresses are apparently not necessarily confined to dry land.
St Tropez Glamour Meets Brooks' Unconventional Style
The location only heightened the retro glamour of Nader's latest look.
St Tropez has long been associated with cinematic French Riviera style, making a vintage lace Saint Laurent dress a natural fit for the setting. Her appearance even prompted Baywatch co-star Hassie Harrison to draw a direct comparison to one of the destination's most famous style icons.
'she's gone full Bardot, ladies and gents!' Harrison commented on Nader's Instagram post.
Eva Longoria also joined the reaction, telling Nader she looked 'gorgeous!' in the comments.
Nader has been enjoying the French getaway with model friend Jack Lumsden and several other friends, including her sister Grace Ann Nader.
But it is her unusual relationship with designer dressing that has arguably become the defining feature of the trip.
Within the space of a few days, she has taken both Gucci and vintage Saint Laurent into the water, transforming traditional luxury holiday dressing into something far more playful.
The YSL moment therefore feels bigger than a single daring outfit. With Nader repeatedly choosing to ignore the conventional boundaries between beachwear and high fashion, her latest St Tropez appearance suggests that for this model, the most memorable place to showcase a designer dress may be somewhere nobody expects, in the sea.
