Dancer

Micheline Bernardini

French dancer

Born 1927 · ColmarFrance

Micheline Bernardini is a French dancer, born in 1927 in Colmar.

Biography

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.

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Contemporaries

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