May 03, 2007 - London, England, UK - Girls posing in bikini's in fashion shows, shoots and on beaches tanning. According to the official version, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Rekard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946 and introduced on July 5 at a fashion show at Piscine Molitor in Paris. It was a string bikini with a g-string back. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device.,Image: 210160420, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no
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Današnji bikiniji izgledaju znatno drugačije, a uglavnom vrijedi pravilo - manje je više.
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U svibnju 1946. pariški modni dizajner Jacques Heim objavio je dvodijelni dizajn kupaćih kostima koji je nazvao Atome.
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E, a onda je dizajner odjeće Louis Réard predstavio svoj novi,, manji dizajn 5. srpnja 1946. Kupaći je kostim nazvao po otoku Bikiniju, gdje je prvo javno testiranje nuklearne bombe održano samo četiri dana prije.
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Njegov štedljiv dizajn bio je rizičan za ono vrijeme, izlažući pupak nositelja i velik dio stražnjice.
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Nijedna manekenka nije ga htjela nositi pa je dizajner angažirao erotsku plesačicu Micheline Bernardini, koja je prva predstavila bikini na modnoj pisti.
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Kao i svi kupaći kostimi iz toga doba, bikini je prekrivao pupak. Kao takav nije uspio privući mnogo pažnje.
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