I was curled up on an oversize daybed at Uxua Praia, a beach club in Trancoso — the coastal Brazilian playground ... town center is known, where my family and I were staying.

French designer Lucien Pellat-Finet, aged, 78 died after he drowned at a beach in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia on Monday, his family confirmed on his Instagram. Pellat-Finet ...