Louis Réard
Louis Réard (1897 – 1984) was a French automobile engineer who invented the bikini in 1946. Together with Jacques Heim, a fashion designer, they produced the world’s smallest swimmsuit. The swimmsuit was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by a string. Réard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll, one of a series of islands in the South Pacific, the site of atomic bomb testing.
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