BIKINI

The bikini?  It fits everyone (better than the one-piece bathing suit)

Triangles and bottoms adhere to the body, without leaving marks.

“Perfect for any size”.

The new American-type bra tops and the return of mini sizes.

The right one enhances even the fuller-figured woman.

It’s 1946 and a fabric triangle explodes like a bomb on morals: it’s not by chance that it takes the name from Bikini Island, where the Americans experimented the new hydrogen device.

Devastating.

The feminine tummy is uncovered for the first time, and the belly button makes its public debut.

In its simplicity, this reduced version of a bathing suit is still today the most contemporary article of clothing.

True to itself – apparently – yet very different.

The bikini has evolved in ever softer and conforming textiles, the revolutionised cut in order to comply with the new woman’s body.

«More symbolic of its time than any dress.”

Summer 2010 revives the bikini – that minimal one of the 1980s.