Marilyn Monroe in 1952, the year in which Life magazine described her as 'The Talk of Hollywood'
BIKINI - A Story In Two Parts, is history of the bikini and celebrates six decades of luminaries such as Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Brigitte Bardot.
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August 17, 2009
WORLD: Sixty Years In and Out of Water
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LONDON, England / The First Post / In Pictures / August 17, 2009
French engineer Louis Reard invented the two-piece swimsuit in 1946 and named his swimwear design after the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of France's nuclear weapons tests in July that year.
Marilyn Monroe in 1952, the year in which Life magazine described her as 'The Talk of Hollywood'
BIKINI - A Story In Two Parts, is history of the bikini and celebrates six decades of luminaries such as Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Brigitte Bardot.
Click here to see BIKINI - A Story in Two Parts.
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Marilyn Monroe in 1952, the year in which Life magazine described her as 'The Talk of Hollywood'
BIKINI - A Story In Two Parts, is history of the bikini and celebrates six decades of luminaries such as Raquel Welch, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Brigitte Bardot.
Click here to see BIKINI - A Story in Two Parts.
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