![]() ![]() Having finished with the previously mentioned project in 1997, Lisa was a panelist on “Hollywood Squares”, and overall appeared in 40 episodes of the series through 2004. After that, she began working as a host for MTV’s show entitled “120 Minutes”, and in addition, worked as a host of “Alternative Nation”, which covered the grunge music movement of the ‘90s. Prior to becoming a widely known political commentator, Lisa worked as a VJ at MTV and spent several years in that position. By the early 2000s, bikinis had become a US$811 million business annually, and boosted spin off services such as bikini waxing and sun tanning.A post shared by KennedyNation on at 3:26pm PDT The bikini has gradually gained wide acceptance in Western society. Similarly, a variety of men's and women's underwear types are described as bikini underwear. A man's single piece brief swimsuit may also be called a bikini or "bikini brief", particularly if it has slimmer sides. There are a number of modern stylistic variations of the design used for marketing purposes and as industry classifications, including monokini, microkini, tankini, trikini, pubikini, skirtini, thong, and g-string. By the late 20th century, it was widely used as sportswear in beach volleyball and bodybuilding. The minimalist bikini design became common in most Western countries by the mid-1960s as both swimwear and underwear. The bikini gained increased exposure and acceptance as film stars like Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch, and Ursula Andress wore them and were photographed on public beaches and seen in film. Despite this backlash, however, the bikini still sold well throughout the mid to later 20th century, albeit discreetly. ![]() The bikini also faced criticism from some feminists, who reviled it as a garment designed to suit men's tastes, and not those of women. ![]() In many countries, the design was banned from beaches and other public places: in 1949, France banned the bikini from being worn on its coastlines Germany banned the bikini from public swimming pools until the 1970s, and some communist groups condemned the bikini as a "capitalist decadence". ĭue to its revealing design, the bikini was once considered controversial, facing opposition from a number of groups and being accepted only very slowly by the general public. No runway model would wear it, so he hired a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris named Micheline Bernardini to model it at a review of swimsuit fashions. His skimpy design was risqué, exposing the wearer's navel and much of her buttocks. He named the swimsuit after the Bikini Atoll, where the first public test of a nuclear bomb had taken place four days before. Clothing designer Louis Réard introduced his new, smaller design in July. Like swimsuits of the era, it covered the wearer's belly button, and it failed to attract much attention. In May 1946, Parisian fashion designer Jacques Heim released a two-piece swimsuit design that he named the Atome ('Atom') and advertised as "the smallest swimsuit in the world". Here she is posing in a publicity photograph for the film In Caliente (1935) while wearing this type of clothing A woman wearing a yellow bikini at the beach Mexican actress Dolores del Río is considered a pioneer on wearing the two piece swimsuit later known as the bikini.
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