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Colmar, France. Nationality. French. Occupation. Model. Micheline Bernardini (born 1 December 1927) is a French former nude dancer at the Casino de Paris who agreed to model, on 5 July 1946, Louis Réard 's two-piece swimsuit, which he called the bikini, named four days after the first test of an American nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll. [1]
Evidence of bikini -style women's clothing has been found as early as 5600 BC, and the history of the bikini can be traced back to that era. Illustrations of women wearing bikini-like garments during competitive athletic events in the Roman era have been found in several locations, the most famous of which is at Villa Romana del Casale.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. cover models. Elle Macpherson holds the record for most swimsuit issue covers, with five. Tyra Banks was the first African American swimsuit issue cover model. Camille Kostek landed a solo cover in 2019 after being scouted in the issue's first ever open casting call. This is the chronological history of cover ...
The swimsuit issue was invented by Sports Illustrated editor Andre Laguerre to fill the winter months, a typically slow point in the sporting calendar. [1] He asked fashion reporter Jule Campbell to go on a shoot to fill space, including the cover, with a beautiful model. The first issue, released in 1964, entailed a cover featuring Babette ...
A bikini is a two-piece swimsuit primarily worn by women that features one piece on top that covers the breasts, and a second piece on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but usually exposing the navel, and the back generally covering the intergluteal cleft and some or all of the buttocks.
Elizabeth Hurley blew fans away with one of the images from her latest magazine photoshoot. The English actress and model graced the cover of Maxim’s September/October 2024 issue, which was ...
automobile engineer, fashion designer. Known for. Inventor of modern bikini design. Louis Réard (French pronunciation: [lwi ʁeaʁ]; 10 October 1896 – 16 September 1984) was a French automobile engineer and clothing designer who introduced the modern two-piece bikini in July 1946. [1] He opened a bikini shop and ran it for the next 40 years.
Munich Models (Munich) [1] Tatjana Patitz (25 May 1966 – 11 January 2023) was a German fashion model. She achieved international prominence in the 1980s and 1990s representing fashion designers on runways and in magazines such as Elle, Harper's Bazaar, and Vogue. [2][3] She was one of the big [4] five [5][6][7] supermodels who appeared in the ...