Micheline Bernardini

Micheline Bernardini
Modeling the first bikini on 5 July 1946 at the Piscine Molitor in Paris.
Born (1927-12-01) 1 December 1927 (age 96)
Colmar, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationModel

Micheline Bernardini (born 1 December 1927) is a French former nude dancer at the Casino de Paris who agreed to model, on 5 July 1946, Louis Réard's two-piece swimsuit, which he called the bikini, named four days after the first test of an American nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll.[1]

  1. ^ "Operation Crossroads: Fact Sheet". Department of the Navy – Naval History and Heritage Command. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2013.