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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 ...
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.
This is a list of feature films originally released and/or distributed by Monogram Pictures and Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram/Allied Artists' post-August 1946 library is currently owned by Warner Bros. (via Lorimar Motion Pictures), while 187 pre-August 1946 Monogram films are owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (via United Artists) and select post-1938 Monogram films are owned by ...
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 ...
It wasn't until French model Micheline Bernardini wore a bikini poolside during a Paris fashion show in 1946 that the bathing suit gained more fame.
The first bikini had been worn at a Paris fashion show in 1946, but in the 1950s, the bikini was still seen as something of a taboo. [7] Andress' bikini arrived at a key moment in the history of women's fashion, coming at the "birth of the sexual revolution": the 1960s.
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.
The modern bikini first appeared in 1946, and since then it has become a part of popular culture. It is one of the most widely worn women's swimsuits, used for swimming and in a variety of other contexts. Today, bikinis appear in competitions, films, magazines, music, literature, and video games.