When modern bikini hit the shelves in Paris in the summer of 1946, Mediterranean women quickly snatched up it. One year later the world’s smallest bathing suit was introduced to the United States. Unleashed on the world, it conquered both America and Europe. A woman’s love affair with it lasts for 71 years. Bikini never lost its allure.
 
However, it sounds amazing that the two-piece’s real inventor is not a French tailor, Louis Réard who also coined the name after the island Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific where that summer the United States conducted two atomic tests- Réard chose that name hoping the minimalist swimsuit would elicit the same shock that the atomic bomb did…