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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.
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 ...
He introduced his new swimsuit, which he named the bikini, to the media and public in Paris on 5 July 1946 [11] at Piscine Molitor, a popular public pool in Paris at the time. [12] [13] He introduced his design four days after the first test of a nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll. The newspapers were full of news about it and Reard hoped for ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Two years after Leser debuted one of the first two-pieces, the bikini was invented in 1946 by a French engineer named Louis Réard. It was apparently named after the Bikini Atoll, which was the site of a nuclear bomb test in 1946, because Réard hoped its impact would be explosive in the fashion world. [35]
In 1946, the unveiling of the first modern bikini, designed by Louis Réard, was held at Piscine Molitor, [2] modelled by the Parisian Micheline Bernardini during a fashion show at the pool. [8] The establishment originally comprised two pools, one indoor and the other outdoor, arranged in a T-shape.