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Micheline Bernardini models the first-Ever Bikini (1946) "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" (1960) Annette Funicello and Beach Party (1960s) The belted Bond-girl bikini (1962) Sports Illustrated's first Swimsuit Issue (1964) Raquel Welch's fur bikini in One Million Years B.C. (1966) Phoebe Cates' Bikini in Fast Times at ...
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.
While the two-piece swimsuit as a design existed in classical antiquity, [6] the modern design first attracted public notice in Paris on July 5, 1946. [7]Operation Crossroads was a nuclear test series at the Bikini Atoll, and the inspiration for the naming of two French swimsuit designs at the time, including the bikini.
A bathing gown from 1767 owned by future First Lady Martha Washington even had lead weights sewn into its hem so it wouldn't float in the water. ... the "bikini," in 1946—a debut hailed by ...
Its first designers, Frenchmen named Louis Réard and Jacques Heim, named it the bikini because it was said to cause an explosive reaction. The two-piece style started appearing on American ...
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]
FH6-FK Hellcat unmanned aircraft are prepared for their flight through mushroom cloud. Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24 [a]) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Tests occurred at 7 test sites on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air, and ...
On 5 July 1946, four days after the first nuclear device (nicknamed Able) was detonated over Bikini Atoll during Operation Crossroads, [98] Louis Réard introduced a new swimsuit design named the bikini after the atoll. Réard was a French mechanical engineer by training and manager of his mother's lingerie shop in Paris.