Diana Vreeland called the bikini the most important thing since the discovery of the atomic bomb.
We can’t help but thing of the staple withVogue World: Parison deck.
This year’s show is all about sport and fashion.
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And why not a few couture bikinis?
Never before in the history of fashion has a little piece of fabric caused such a stir.
But one summer day in 1946, a Frenchman shook things up.
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And that bomb was the bikini, named after the famous atoll.
A respectable woman should never show this intimate part of the body in public.
And among its supporters, Brigitte Bardot pulled it off best.
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She was dressed simply in a little flowered bikini.
“Wearing a bikini is a way for women to control their own bodies and conquer their freedom.
Today, after a few tepid years, the bikini has the wind in its sails.
Because, as Millet reminds us, everything we’ve given women, we can take back.
