Louis Réard
Louis Réard, French automobile engineer, co-inventor of the bikini in 1946, lived from 1897 to 1984. Together with Jacques Heim, a fashion designer, they produced the world’s smallest swimsuit, a bra...
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Louis Réard, French automobile engineer, co-inventor of the bikini in 1946, lived from 1897 to 1984. Together with Jacques Heim, a fashion designer, they produced the world’s smallest swimsuit, a bra...
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Jacques Heim, French fashion designer and manufacturer, lived from 1899 to 1967. Heim is well known for inventing the bikini in 1945. The Parisian ran his own fashion house ‘Maison de Couture’ from...
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Jacques Heim, French fashion designer and manufacturer, lived from 1899 to 1967. Heim is well known for inventing the bikini in 1945. The Parisian ran his own fashion house ‘Maison de Couture’ from...
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Micheline Bernardini, Parisian model and nude-dancer, born 1927. Bernardini made history as the very first official Bikini model. In 1946, French fashion designer Louis Réard was on the lookout for a...
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Micheline Bernardini, Parisian model and nude-dancer, born 1927. Bernardini made history as the very first official Bikini model. In 1946, French fashion designer Louis Réard was on the lookout for a...
View ArticleFashion History Classics: Who invented the Bikini?
The Bikini was invented by French automobile engineer Louis Réard (1897 – 1984) and fashion designer Jacques Heim (1899 – 1967) in Paris in 1946. Réard was a car engineer but by 1946 he was running his...
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