Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A woman wearing a black bikini at a beach in 2009. 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.
Raquel Welch's fur bikini in One Million Years B.C. (1966) gave the world the most iconic bikini shot of all time and the poster image became an iconic moment in cinema history. [130] The poster image of the deer skin bikini in One Million Years B.C. made her an instant pin-up girl. [2]
Cheryl Rae Tiegs (born September 25, 1947) is an American model and fashion designer. Frequently described as America's first supermodel, [1] [2] [3] Tiegs made multiple appearances on the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and Time magazine. [4] [5] [6] Her 1978 "Pink Bikini" poster became an iconic image of 1970s pop culture. [7] [8]
Réard was an automotive engineer who took over his mother's lingerie business in about 1940 and became a clothing designer near the Folies Bergère in Paris. [2] [3] While on Saint Tropez beaches, he noticed women rolling up the edges of their swimsuits to get a better tan, [2] which inspired him to design a swimsuit with the midriff exposed.
The bikini had a colorful period on the cinema screens and made an impact in the late 1950s, and inspired films such as And God Created Woman by Roger Vadim, which launched Brigitte Bardot into the spotlight, and became the benchmark for bikini on celluloid. Also, her outfit set a whole new trend for sex symbols.
The 2021 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue had one of the best athletes in the world on the cover. Women’s tennis star Naomi Osaka was one of three cover models for this year’s issue. Full ...
Adele showed off her bikini body on Sunday, August 30, months after she initially debuted her slimmed-down figure. In the snap, Adele rocked a Jamaican flag-themed bikini top and tie-dye leggings.
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.