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Louis Réard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Réard (1897 – 1984) was a French automobile engineer who invented bikini in 1946. Although Réard was an engineer, he was running his mother's lingerie boutique near Les Folies Bergères in Paris...
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Louis Reard, a French automobile engineer who designed the bikini swimsuit, died in a hospital here Sunday, his family said today. ... Mr. Reard produced the bikini in 1946 after joining his mother's clothing firm. ''He named the swimsuit a bikini, thinking of the nuclear explosions at Bikini atoll around that time,'' his...
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Bikini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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You can thank (or curse, as the case may be) two Frenchmen, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard, for that tiny scrap of material known as the bikini. Neither man really invented the item, as two-piece bathing suits had been around for a long time and were depicted in wall paintings and ancient Greek urns.
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The bikini; Louis Reard ... It wasn’t Louis Reard who took this photo of Swiss actress Ursula Andress emerging from the sea in a bikini, it came from the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No, but as the inventor of the bikini, he was surely the one who created the iconic image.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Louis Reard. Louis Reard. Information about Louis Reard in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... When the tests attracted worldwide attention, Louis Reard, a French swimsuit designer looking to name his scandalous two-piece creation, chose "bikini" be cause of the atomic" chain reaction...
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Results for Louis Reard ... Powered by Inform ... The Canadian connection: Iran acquiring nuclear materials in Canada...
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In 1946 Louis Réard, a former automotive engineer and the son of a lingerie shop owner, joined the hundreds thronging St. Tropez on the French Mediterranean in the euphoria following the end of the Nazi occupation. ... Louis Réard...
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Louis Reard (ray-YARD) had this problem. He had designed Something that would stir the masses. But he needed a name for it, something exotic, bold, and eye opening. Four days before he was to show the world his new bikini in Paris, the U.S. Military provided him with a name.
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According to our Bikini Encyclopedia, it wasn’t long before the creation of Louis Réard went from making the rounds of media events to the beaches of the world. Mr. Réard, incidentally, called his bikini creation, “four triangles of nothing.”...
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