A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on an Italian beach, 1957

The name for the bikini design was coined in 1946 by French engineer Louis RĂ©ard, the designer of the bikini. He named the swimsuit after Bikini Atoll, where testing on the atomic bomb was taking place. Fashion designer Jacques Heim, also from France, re-released a similar design earlier that same year, the Atome. Despite the … Continue reading A police officer issuing a woman a ticket for wearing a bikini on an Italian beach, 1957