Crochet Cover Ups is Melissa Odabash's open-weave layering collection, in navy open-knit cotton and viscose-nylon, built to be worn over a bikini so the print beneath shows through the weave.
Open-knit crochet works precisely because it doesn't try to hide the body underneath it - the texture is the point, not the coverage. Crochet Cover Ups is Melissa Odabash's dedicated edit within the wider Cover Ups range, built around that specific open-weave story rather than the plainer cotton and linen pieces sitting alongside it, for the days texture matters more than colour or print. Ellis Navy Cover-up opens the edit in a navy open-weave, styled to layer over a matching or contrasting bikini beneath so the pattern underneath shows through the gaps in the knit, alongside Elise White Co-ord and Quinn White Co-ord in the same open construction. The wider crochet story draws on the same considered cotton and viscose-nylon base as the rest of the Cover Ups range, with the open-knit texture doing the work a print might do elsewhere in the collection, catching the light differently depending on the hour and the angle it's worn at. Wear over a bikini in a shade one tone darker or lighter for the texture to read clearly against the skin, and finish with raffia accessories from Hats or Bags for a considered, textural take on beach-to-bar dressing. Crochet doesn't need a print to make a statement - the weave already is one, however plainly it's styled around it.
