Fashion
The Bikini is 70 – but not old
In 1946, a Parisian engineer, invented a scandalous piece of clothing for ladies: The Bikini, the shows at the beach or Pool more than it hides. Film stars such as Brigitte Bardot or Marilyn Monroe helped him to breakthrough.
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Triangle-History
Four small triangles held together by thin cords – less. On 5. July 1946, the Striptease dancer Micheline Bernardini, a Parisian swimming pool in front of the cameras and presented the first Bikini, designed, of all things, from a mechanical engineering ingeniur. The Frenchman Louis Réard has no way of knowing that he has created a piece of clothing for eternity.
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Anatomic Bomb
The Second world war is over, the Cold war has begun. In the South Pacific Bikini Atoll, the first U.S. atomic bomb tests are carried out. The inspired Réard to the name “Bikini”. He is applying these new swimsuit (above: 1947), with the pun “Le bikini, la première bomb atomique”. Whether the term “nuclear Tits” for a large bust the same origin is not known.
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Already the ancient Romans…
Actually, the Bikini was not an invention of the Parisian engineer. Because the idea to put on so lightly that only the most necessary Body are covered, is much older. In Sicily Romana del Casale mosaics of the 4 are in the Roman Villa. Century have been found. The Roman show at the sports in the ancient Bikini.
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The great happiness of the Pin-up Girls
Prior to her career as an actress Marilyn Monroe has earned her pocket money as a Model for Pin-up photos. For you and your colleagues in the Bikini, with its freedom of movement is a gift. Clearly, all the style is truly in a Bikini pictures. This photo from 1949 is hanging in the art Museum in Brooklyn/New York and says quite simply: “Marilyn on the beach”.
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Non-slip
In the 1950s, the colorful Hollywood celebrations in the US, films with the float inside Giant. “Aqua Maids” show ski water ballet and acrobatics on Water. Here are two bathing beauties cool off – as you can see, the Bikini tops just and slip at risk, but underneath is a lot of material that seems to hold even at 50 km/h. The sporty Bikini-variant of the 50s.
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The bathing beauties of the James Bond
As Ursula Andress in 1962, is rising in the skimpy two-piece the sea, work for the cinema visitors and morals, the chin guards charging down. James Bond (Sean Connery) must hold on the “hunting Dr. No” for a moment. The same Pierce Brosnan is done as James Bond in “die another day” 40 years later: Halle Berry emerges in a similar model from the sea.
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Just not too tight
According to the Bond-Bikini, the last resistance against the Robe broke. In the port of Hamburg the new products for the German season 1963 are: The model of Capri (left), there are Similarities with the Ursula-Andress-Bikini. To the right is a “new Linen with a sporty touch” model Sissi. This is a high-cut passion killer pants a little more modest.
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Bikini instead of pot holders
The modern woman in the German democratic Republic has a right to the scarce beach resort district. In 1971, the “publishing house for the woman praises” the model of the Häkelbikinis. A cheap variant, because there is no need a lot of wool and time. Häkelbikinis are also popular with the Hippies. Disadvantage: The cotton is in the water pretty hard and the parts wear out quickly. Today to work they made of synthetic fiber.
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The mother country of the g-strings
Ironically, in Rio de Janeiro was founded in the 1950s, an Anti-Bikini club. Until the 1970s, especially the Brazilian Thong had a rather wicked reputation. In the meantime, however, a stroll in Brazil, the most beautiful women of the beaches with the skimpiest of Bikinis and showing neat buttocks.
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Bikini figure
Paparazzi lurking on the beaches of this world, where celebrities. They focus their telephoto lenses on the ladies present to see them somewhere a flab? By Model and presenter Michelle Hunziker (left) could not find the photographer, even after hundreds of shot images: Even after three children everything is perfect. Your sister-in-law, by contrast, is too thin.
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Sports Bikini
In 1996 beach volleyball Olympic will, and fast, this sport is fast becoming one of the most popular. Because there is a way to look just for the ladies much. Until 2012, the dress code was Bikini and even then, the Volleyball has eased-the world Association of this sexist rule. From the Thong to the Cycling shorts, everything is now possible.
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Immortal Classic
“Bikini” means “Land of coconuts”. The inhabitants of the nuclear-infested Atoll are already living somewhere else, a Bikini is to leave. However, the garment has survived for decades and for generations of swimmers there is “no alternative”. Just put the swimwear Label lives up to TCN on the Barcelona Fashion Week a monument. With the most classic of all the shapes: Four triangles with string.
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Triangle-History
Four small triangles held together by thin cords – less. On 5. July 1946, the Striptease dancer Micheline Bernardini, a Parisian swimming pool in front of the cameras and presented the first Bikini, designed, of all things, from a mechanical engineering ingeniur. The Frenchman Louis Réard has no way of knowing that he has created a piece of clothing for eternity.
-
Anatomic Bomb
The Second world war is over, the Cold war has begun. In the South Pacific Bikini Atoll, the first U.S. atomic bomb tests are carried out. The inspired Réard to the name “Bikini”. He is applying these new swimsuit (above: 1947), with the pun “Le bikini, la première bomb atomique”. Whether the term “nuclear Tits” for a large bust the same origin is not known.
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Already the ancient Romans…
Actually, the Bikini was not an invention of the Parisian engineer. Because the idea to put on so lightly that only the most necessary Body are covered, is much older. In Sicily Romana del Casale mosaics of the 4 are in the Roman Villa. Century have been found. The Roman show at the sports in the ancient Bikini.
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The great happiness of the Pin-up Girls
Prior to her career as an actress Marilyn Monroe has earned her pocket money as a Model for Pin-up photos. For you and your colleagues in the Bikini, with its freedom of movement is a gift. Clearly, all the style is truly in a Bikini pictures. This photo from 1949 is hanging in the art Museum in Brooklyn/New York and says quite simply: “Marilyn on the beach”.
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Non-slip
In the 1950s, the colorful Hollywood celebrations in the US, films with the float inside Giant. “Aqua Maids” show ski water ballet and acrobatics on Water. Here are two bathing beauties cool off – as you can see, the Bikini tops just and slip at risk, but underneath is a lot of material that seems to hold even at 50 km/h. The sporty Bikini-variant of the 50s.
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The bathing beauties of the James Bond
As Ursula Andress in 1962, is rising in the skimpy two-piece the sea, work for the cinema visitors and morals, the chin guards charging down. James Bond (Sean Connery) must hold on the “hunting Dr. No” for a moment. The same Pierce Brosnan is done as James Bond in “die another day” 40 years later: Halle Berry emerges in a similar model from the sea.
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Just not too tight
According to the Bond-Bikini, the last resistance against the Robe broke. In the port of Hamburg the new products for the German season 1963 are: The model of Capri (left), there are Similarities with the Ursula-Andress-Bikini. To the right is a “new Linen with a sporty touch” model Sissi. This is a high-cut passion killer pants a little more modest.
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Bikini instead of pot holders
The modern woman in the German democratic Republic has a right to the scarce beach resort district. In 1971, the “publishing house for the woman praises” the model of the Häkelbikinis. A cheap variant, because there is no need a lot of wool and time. Häkelbikinis are also popular with the Hippies. Disadvantage: The cotton is in the water pretty hard and the parts wear out quickly. Today to work they made of synthetic fiber.
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The mother country of the g-strings
Ironically, in Rio de Janeiro was founded in the 1950s, an Anti-Bikini club. Until the 1970s, especially the Brazilian Thong had a rather wicked reputation. In the meantime, however, a stroll in Brazil, the most beautiful women of the beaches with the skimpiest of Bikinis and showing neat buttocks.
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Bikini figure
Paparazzi lurking on the beaches of this world, where celebrities. They focus their telephoto lenses on the ladies present to see them somewhere a flab? By Model and presenter Michelle Hunziker (left) could not find the photographer, even after hundreds of shot images: Even after three children everything is perfect. Your sister-in-law, by contrast, is too thin.
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Sports Bikini
In 1996 beach volleyball Olympic will, and fast, this sport is fast becoming one of the most popular. Because there is a way to look just for the ladies much. Until 2012, the dress code was Bikini and even then, the Volleyball has eased-the world Association of this sexist rule. From the Thong to the Cycling shorts, everything is now possible.
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Immortal Classic
“Bikini” means “Land of coconuts”. The inhabitants of the nuclear-infested Atoll are already living somewhere else, a Bikini is to leave. However, the garment has survived for decades and for generations of swimmers there is “no alternative”. Just put the swimwear Label lives up to TCN on the Barcelona Fashion Week a monument. With the most classic of all the shapes: Four triangles with string.
A professional mannequin, the mechanical engineer Louis Réard couldn’t find. So he dedicated the Striptease dancer Micheline Bernardini for the presentation of its first Bikinis at the 5. Of July, 1946. The timing was no coincidence. The U.S. military had conducted on Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific a nuclear bomb test, which brought worldwide attention to the cause. Similar to explosive the unveiling of the latest swimwear from Paris. Réard had not charged. So much skin was for the time too much. Moral guardians were outraged that a woman should run around in these post-war years, with skirt and long skirt instead of so shamelessly undress.
Just covered in a new future
For many years, the Bikini was banned from the Public, even the famous fashion magazine “Vogue” rejected him. Movie stars like Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, however, held to the Bikini and were regularly in it to scan.
Marilyn Monroe saved the Bikini on the prudish 1950s
At the latest, with the James Bond Film “James Bond hunts Dr. No” of 1962 came out in theaters, and broke the spell. The model is wearing Ursula Andress in the Film, as the “Dr. No Bikini” in the story. In the 1960s, the triumph of the Bikinis could not be stopped. He took on many different forms, came as a self-adhesive “Trikini” on the market, even as a breast-free “Monokini” – but not by sat. The Revolution of swimwear coupled with the increasing self-determination of women. The contraceptive pill came out, as well as the mini skirt and the rebellion against the Establishment in the student unrest of the 1960s. The Bikini was a kind of liberation for many women.
Bikini beats wedding dress
Until today, the Bikini has lost nothing of its fascination. Now you have to ask for no Mannequins to show of the latest Bikinis on the Catwalk. In the 1980s and 1990s, and the latest bikini collection, instead of the usual high time belonged to the climax of some great Looking robes. Catwalk stars such as Claudia Schiffer, Linda Evangelista or Naomi Campbell cracks to such Jobs.
The Bikini is a perennial favorite, pretty much every woman wears it, whether it’s Teens with a slim model figure, or women of higher age with a visible excess weight. These women defy self-aware of the magazines that want to sell every spring, new diets for the “bikini figure”. The Bikini is for the past 70 years, a Statement – and will remain so in the future.