Axollo - Silence (ft. Josh Bogert) Hot music video (Bikini model) This article is about the women's bathing suit. For the island group, see Bikini Atoll. For other uses, see Bikini (disambiguation) A woman wearing a bikini at the beach A bikini is typically a women's two-piece swimsuit featuring two triangles of fabric on top that cover the woman's breast, similar to a bra, and two triangles of fabric on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but exposing the navel, and the back covering the buttocks.[1][2] The size of the top and bottom can vary, from bikinis that offer full coverage of the breas, pelvis, and buttocks, to more revealing designs with a thong or G-string bottom that covers only the mons pubis, but exposes the buttocks, and a top that covers little more than the areolae. In May 1946, Parisian fashion designer Jacques Heim released a two-piece swimsuit design that he named the Atome ('Atom') and advertised as "the smallest swimsuit in the world".[3] Like swimsuits of the era, it covered the wearer's navel, and it failed to attract much attention. Clothing designer Louis Réard introduced his new, smaller design in July.[4] He named the swimsuit after the Bikini Atoll, where the first public test of a nuclear bom had taken place only four days before. His skimpy design was risqué, exposing the wearer's navel and much of her buttocks. No runway model would wear it, so he hired a nud dancer from the Casino de Paris named Micheline Bernardini to model it at a review of swimsuit fashions.[5] Due to its revealing design, the bikini was considered controversial, facing opposition from a number of groups and being accepted only very slowly by the general public. In many countries, the design was banned from beaches and other public places: in 1949, France banned the bikini from being worn on its coastlines; Germany banned the bikini from public swimming pools until the 1970s, and some communist groups condemned the bikini as a "capitalist decadence".[6] The bikini also faced criticism from some feminists, who reviled it as a garment designed to suit men's tastes, and not those of women. Despite this backlash, however, the bikini still sold well throughout the early to later 20th century, albeit discreetly. The one piece swimsuit, in contrast, gained increased exposure and acceptance as film stars like Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch, and Ursula Andress wore them and were photographed on public beaches and seen in film.[6] The minimalist bikini design became common in most Western countries by the mid 1960s as both swimwear and underwear. By the late 20th century it was widely used as sportswear in beach volleyball and bodybuilding. There are a number of modern stylistic variations of the design used for marketing purposes and as industry classifications, including, but not limited to, monokini, microkini, tankini, trikini, pubikini, and skirtini. A man's single piece brief swimsuit may also be called a bikini.[2] Similarly, a variety of men's and women's underwear types are described as bikini underwear. The bikini has gradually gained wide acceptance in Western society. By the early 2000s, bikinis had become a US$811 million business annually, and boosted spin off services such as bikini waxing and sun tanning.[7] Modern bikini Micheline Bernardini modeling Réard's bikini at the Piscine Molitor on 5 July 1946. Reard's design was small enough to fit into a 5 by 5 by 5 centimetres (2.0 by 2.0 by 2.0 in) box like the one she is holding. In the summer of 1946, Western Europeans enjoyed their first war-free summer in many years. French designers sought to deliver fashions that matched the liberated mood of the people.[47] Fabric was still in short supply,[49] and in an endeavor to resurrect swimwear sales, two French designers – Jacques Heim and Louis Réard – almost simultaneously launched new two-piece swimsuit designs in 1946.[50][51] Heim launched a two-piece swimsuit design in Paris that he called the atome, after the smallest known particle of matter. He announced that it was the "world's Soon after, Louis Réard created a competing two-piece swimsuit design, which he called the bikini.[56] He noticed that women at the beach rolled up the edges of their swimsuit bottoms and tops to improve their tan.[4] On 5 July, Réard introduced his design at a swimsuit review held at a #girl #girls #girlsgeneration #girlsday #girlsbestfriend #girlsnight #girlswholikegirls #love #me #beautiful #lady #ladies #ladiesnight #woman #womancrushwednesday #women #womencrushwednesday #follow #followme #followback #cute #instagood #instalike #instadaily #instagirls #instagramanet #instatag #russianwomen #swag #hot #bikini #beach #model #fitness #summer #love #fashion #beautiful #girl #travel #fit #swimwear #miami #beauty #photography #swimsuit #instagood #bodybuilding #ocean #photooftheday #gym #bikinimodel #bikinigirl #fitnessmodel #style #motivation #workout #florida #girls

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