Joan Collins, 93, shared new St. Tropez photos of herself cooling off in a pool with Percy Gibson while wearing a black-and-white striped one-piece swimsuit. The post lands in the middle of a heatwave, and she framed it as a simple summer workaround: shade, water and staying by the pool.
In one image, Collins wore a straw hat, a silver heart-shaped necklace and sunglasses while holding an iced coffee. Another showed Gibson wrapping a towel around her as she stepped out of the water, and a separate shot placed them side by side on a daybed. She ended the set in a white-and-blue patterned dress, keeping the sequence anchored to one day in St. Tropez rather than a staged spread.
St. Tropez in 33C
Collins wrote, “Beating the heat in St. Tropez!” She added, “When it's 33C (92F) in the South of France it's best to rely on hand fans, sunglasses, and lots of water! Nevertheless we are having a good time.” That line does more than decorate a holiday post; it tells readers exactly how she is handling the conditions around her.
The detail that stands out is not just the swimsuit. It is the combination of a public post, a pool, and a heatwave, with Collins using the images to document the day instead of turning it into a polished nostalgia piece. At 93, she is still treating Instagram as a running diary, and this one is built around comfort, not performance.
Percy Gibson in the frame
Gibson is present in the part of the story that matters most. He appears alongside her in the pool, on the daybed and in the towel scene, which keeps the post personal rather than promotional. The photos also fit a pattern Collins has described elsewhere: she has said she never snacks late at night, that her body needs the right fuel, and that she works out with a trainer a couple of times a week.
That background matters because the post does not read like a one-off pose. Collins has talked about food, exercise and water as everyday habits, and the St. Tropez photos show the same discipline in a lighter register — iced coffee in hand, sunglasses on, and a reminder that she still notices the temperature enough to write about it in detail.
Joan Collins and the heat
The sharpest line in the post is also the most practical one: “Nevertheless we are having a good time.” That keeps the story grounded. The heat is severe enough to shape the outing, but not severe enough to stop it, and that is the real update for readers following her summer trip.
For now, the story ends where the photos do: in St. Tropez, with Collins and Gibson still in the middle of their getaway. The only open timeline is the one the post itself leaves behind, because she has shared the scene, not a plan.
