02221nam 2200541 a 450 991015020850332120200520144314.09781283953986128395398697817804295191780429517(CKB)2670000000180974(EBL)915115(OCoLC)793511424(MiAaPQ)EBC915115(PPN)197279503(FR-PaCSA)88835859(FRCYB88835859)88835859(EXLCZ)99267000000018097420111005d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrier[Temptis]Bikini story /Patrik Alac1st ed.New York Parkstone Press[2012]1 online resource (256 p.)TemporisDescription based upon print version of record.9781859957950 1859957951 Includes bibliographical references.The birth of the bikini -- From scandal to scandal -- The frontiers of imagination -- The bikini and the cinema -- The conditioning of the body -- The new freedom -- Epilogue: the beach as an arena for -- Social liberty.It was in 1946 that the world fi rst came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis Réard borrowed the name and applied it to a bathing costume for women. Breaking from decades of conformity, Réard dared to 'undress' women's bodies in order to better emphasize what remained clothed - albeit in tiny wisps of material. By taking up the bikini as popular beachwear, women also found themselves thinking differently about their bodies. An ideal of perfection was reinforced by the appearance on the cinema screen of stars such as MarilynTemporisBikinisHistoryBikinisHistory.391.4/8Alac Patrik1233457MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910150208503321Temptis4194355UNINA