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Leotard. A leotard (/ ˈliːətɑːrd /) is a unisex skin-tight one-piece garment that covers the torso from the crotch to the shoulder. The garment was made famous by the French acrobatic performer Jules Léotard (1838–1870). There are sleeveless, short-sleeved, and long-sleeved leotards. A variation is the unitard, which also covers the legs.
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 ...
Babette March. Babette March (born 1941), pronounced Marx, born Barbara Marchlowitz, formerly Babette Russell, or simply Babette, [1] who is now known by the name Babette Beatty, [2] was the first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover model. [3][4][5] She was on the swimsuit issue cover of the January 20, 1964, issue. [6]
Claire McCardell. American fashion designer Claire McCardell surrounded by models wearing her designs, Time, 2 May 1955. Claire McCardell (May 24, 1905 – March 22, 1958) was an American fashion designer of ready-to-wear clothing in the twentieth century. She is credited with the creation of American sportswear.
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 ...
The Society Management (New York) Wilhelmina Models (Los Angeles) Yumi Nootenboom (born September 23, 1996), better known as Yumi Nu, is an American model. She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2022, becoming the first plus-size model of Asian-American descent to do so.
Rudolf " Rudi " Gernreich[1] (August 8, 1922 – April 21, 1985) was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom, producing clothes that followed ...
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]