Teyana Taylor can rock a runway.

The 17-year-old Harlem crooner closed the Diesel show during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim kickoff Thursday night -- and made more of an impression than any of the bathing suits.

''I'm speechless that they picked my song,'' Taylor said, minutes after she'd bopped down the catwalk to her song, Google Me Baby. Diesel had invited her to model, and Taylor felt it was a great fit.

''Me and Diesel, we've got so much in common,'' she said. ``My style is so Diesel!''

Fashion Week Swim, now in its fourth year, is a series of private shows that coincides with a massive swimwear trade show at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

The shows aren't celebrity magnets like those in New York, which are also produced by 7th on Sixth. Agency owner Irene Marie and her model Cindy Taylor passed for local royalty. Mercedes showcased a creamy C63 AMG sedan. For this crew? Maybe a coupe would have been better.

But the events bring out fashion-centric Miamians in full force, and this night, they crowded around the pool's runway, watching Diesel models strut in black-and-white ruffled bikinis, a wacky one-piece reminiscent of overalls and swirling coral and aqua getups.

But Diesel has a dark side, and stylists had thrown some bad-girl netted shirts over certain swimsuits, and paired others with chunky ankle boots. There's at least some black in nearly all their swim concoctions.

Even though some cute kiddies appeared in bright-colored swimsuits, the show was far more Tayana than Tooth Fairy. Diesel generally doesn't do sweet.

Designer Red Carter tells us what it takes to make the runway sizzle during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Swim at www.whatthe5.com.

-- KATHRYN WEXLER

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