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It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis Réard borrowed the name and applied it to a bathing costume for women. Breaking from decades of conformity, Réard dared to 'undress' women's bodies in order to better emphasize what remained clothed - albeit in tiny wisps of material. By taking up the bikini as popular beachwear, women also found themselves thinking differently about their bodies. An ideal of perfection was reinforced by the appearance on the cinema screen of stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress, all of whom were featured in bikinis that accentuated their own curvaceous contours.
More than a bathing costume, the bikini made its own contribution during the 1970s to the sexual revolution and to the changing relationship between men and women in general. This book investigates the history of the bikini and its effect on the evolution in the perception of women in society, as women regained responsibility for the way they look and laid claim once more to full sexual equality. A collection of images throughout this book illustrates this progression step-by-step over a period of more than 50 years.
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Length5 hrs 37 mins
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Publish dateMay 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BIKINI STORY
2© Parkstone Press International, New York, USA Image-Bar www.image-bar.com
3Introduction
4Éric Deniset, 2009.
5A beach in northern Italy between Genoa and Santa Margherita Ligure around
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6beaches all over the world.
7Public announcement of the contest of “Most Beautiful Swimmer”, 1946.
8The Birth of the Bikini
9Paris for the title of “Most Beautiful Swimmer”.
10appropriate for that era.
11Post/Getty Images.
12Atomic bomb explosion over the Bikini Atoll in 1946.
13Map of the Bikini Atoll.
14sketches for the “Maid of
15Popperfoto/Getty Images.
16Beachwear in 1952: fashion parade in the Janika-Bar, Berlin.
17on arrival at the Vienna airport.
18A Réard bikini, May 18, 1956.
19Bikini from the Réard collection, June 12, 1949.
20Molitor, Micheline Bernardini.”
21From Scandal to Scandal
22Armerina, Sicily.
23Two ladies in two-piece swimming costumes on the beach at Wannsee
24Winner of the Miss Bikini Contest 2000, Carole Keyrouz.
25The American movie actress Ava Gardner in a two-piece swimsuit with shoes.
26some three years later with the release of The Killers (1946).
27and off as a dancer.
28Marilyn Monroe on the beach.
29Rita Hayworth in a white two-piece costume on a satin-covered bed. The
30include Cover Girl (1944), Gilda (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1948).
31The Frontiers of Imagination
32Catherine Bleuze in Louis Réard’s Bikini de Mars, May 26, 1955.
33Déclaration – Louis Réard’s new collection, May 26, 1955.
34chrysanthemums on Ascot racecourse, Berkshire, June 17, 1968.
35Joséphine Prichard at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 1965.
36Wig bikini by Luc Traineau, 1966.
37her comic performance in Cactus Flower.
38Self-supporting bikini.
39Inflatable bikini.
40The South African fashion model Awa, niece of former President Nelson
41hat and a small chain around the hips.
42A Brief History of Bikini Material
43The Bikini and the Cinema
44Stanley Kubrick’s film of Vladimir Nobokov’s Lolita (1962), with Sue Lyon.
45Letchika Chorrau at the Cannes Film Festival, April 20, 1953.
46Bikini back.
47Ursula Andress in her Dr No bikini and a large shell.
48A bikini-clad Bond pin-up girl.
49Britt Ekland in the James Bond movie
50Britt Ekland and Maud Adams.
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