In the past, model and now fashion editor Kelly Killoren Bensimon Bikini dedicated the book The Bikini Book (publisher Assouline). Its purpose - to document the significant impact that has had on the world of tiny separate swimsuit, created in the mid-40s, Jacques Heim and Louis Rirdom.
So what is the difference between a bikini from other separate swimsuit? First of all, the tiny size (Killoren Bensimon calls bikini swimsuit any line heats of which is below the navel).
According Killoren Bensimon, women lifah gangs and panties are depicted on ancient frescoes dating from 1,400 BC. e. Kafeshantanov actress and vaudeville were separate costumes back in the 1920s, and in 1932 French designer Madeleine Vionnet put on the catwalk models in evening gowns, open the aperture. In 1935, the American designer Claire McCardell cut out sides in One Piece Swimsuits. This model is considered to be the forerunner of the official bikini.
However, when in 1946 Rird going to make a presentation of «le bikini» one of the most fashionable Parisian basin, he was not immediately able to find the model - Parisian beauties did not dare to appear in public in such a revealing outfits. And only one of the stripper Paris Club Micheline Bernardini ventured on a risky action - and created a furor.
The name "bikini" comes from the remarkable historic event - the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, which took place in the early summer of 1946. According to Bensimon, borrowing catchphrases from the military lexicon was very common during the Second World War - so, for example, included in our everyday life now popular phrase "sex bomb".
For Killoren Bensimon write a book about a bikini - a pleasure. "I love fashion, and the history of the bikini - it is also the history of society, which I also love. Besides, I'm also passionate bikini "- she admits.
Killoren Bensimon - editing application Elle Accessories. In its credit several books devoted not only to the American way of life. Part of the profit from the sale of The Bikini Book Bensimon directs the Institute suit the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The temptation bikini
Among other things, the book Kelly Killoren Bensimon says that Walt Disney banned actress Annette Funicello wearing a bikini until the last episode of «The Bikini Book». Basically, the actress had to wear a separate bathing suits, covering the navel.
His own loyalty and devotion to the author shows readers bikini in the first part of the book. On the first pages you can find a photo statuesque Killoren Bensimon in a brown bikini - thin strings instead of the bodice and a barely noticeable triangle heats, which fasten on the thighs wide rings. Bensimon posing on the Bay of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, along with her two daughters, also in a bikini.
"Navel - a real area of contention - Killoren Bensimon says in a recent interview. - Bikini body reveals an unusual way. In the 60's it was so sexy - especially in the context of the sexual revolution. In the 50s the most famous actress wore a bikini to show off their natural dignity. Today the "actor" will never be posing in a bikini. They never took off half-naked. If semi-nude actress removed - for example, for the calendar - it has not been taken seriously, but in those days it was the opposite - the actress became a star only when filmed in a bikini. "
In the 1950s, the public simply lost her head on a bikini - especially if he wore a swimsuit on the divine body Jayne Mansfield or Brigitte Bardot. Killoren Bensimon says with a laugh about experiments with bikini Bardot - French superstar lowered line heats lower and lower, testing endurance of others. As it turned out, the melting bikini can be so tiny that their width is only a few centimeters. From a distance, they were sometimes hard to notice. Such a tiny bathing suit instantly became popular on the beaches of the French Riviera.
Even today, the characters fashionable hangouts boast that they take with them to the glamorous vacation to the Caribbean "whole wardrobe bikini and a couple of things to throw on top," says Valerie Steele, director of the Museum of Fashion Institute in Manhattan.
"In fashion is very important to show your exquisite body, they boast. Clothing - only framing your perfection. In this respect, bikini pretty demanding "- she adds.
However, Steele argues that the bikini can also be the subject of affordable designer clothing. For the first time designers "released" bikini on the podium in the 1980s, and since then the significance of the original auxiliary member of the ensemble is growing steadily.
A crucial role in the history of cinema has played a bikini - and continues to play today. In addition to the famous film R. Vadim "And God Created Woman" with Bardot starring bikini excited our imagination Ursula Andres in one of the film "James Bond" "Dr. No". Halle Berry recreated that image in the last film to date, "James Bond" "Die Another Day".
Then came a girl in a bikini on the cover of the magazine Sports Illustrated - and later rooms devoted to bathing suits - and posters Cheryl Tiegs. Around the same time Olympic medalist in swimming Mark Spitz hit the headlines on the front pages of the tabloids because of male bikini with the lowest line heats model Lycra Speedo.
Killoren Bensimon insisted that men's bikinis were also included in the book. Many photos beauties in bikinis - European playboys. According Bensimon, is explained by the fact that they are in the ground and a bikini.
Who else wears a bikini?
"Bikini can wear any woman - and every man. In 1974, when sewing lycra bikini was used, which further increased the popularity of this leotard. Now bikini can be worn at all - she said. - Because there are so many options! If you need a big top, you get a smaller bottom. Need more bottom - gets less over. Choose what you want. Surfer, social activist, rocker - bikini there for everyone. "