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Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.

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Micheline Bernardini

French dancer (born 1927)

Micheline Bernardini 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.
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Bikini

Two-piece swimwear

A bikini is a two-piece swimsuit that features one piece on top that covers the breasts, and a second piece on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but usually exposing the navel, and the back generally covering the intergluteal cleft and some or all of the buttocks. The…
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