Patrik Alac

It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis Rard borrowed the name and applied it to a bathing costume for women. Breaking from decades of conformity, Rard dared to ‘undress’ women’s bodies in order to better emphasize what remained clothed – albeit in tiny wisps of material. By taking up the bikini as popular beachwear, women also found themselves thinking differently about their bodies. An ideal of perfection was reinforced by the appearance on the cinema screen of stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress, all of whom were featured in bikinis that accentuated their own curvaceous contours. More than a...

Дата выхода: май 2017

Im Jahre 1946 entdeckt die Welt auf den Marshallinseln ein Atoll namens Bikini, auf dem die Amerikaner verheerende Atomtests durchfhren. Nur wenige Tage spter bedient sich der franzsische Modemacher Louis Rart des skandaltrchtigen Namens fr ein neuentworfenes Badekostm, das den weiblichen Krper wie nie zuvor entkleidet, um ihn – mit einem winzigen Stck Stoff – besser zur Geltung zu bringen. Zuerst aus Wolle – der soeben zu Ende gegangene Zweite Weltkrieg ist wirtschaftlich sprbar —, spter, nach Dupont de Nemours Erfindung der Nylonfaser, aus eben diesem Material, wird der Bikini in den 1950er Jahren zum Symbol einer neuen Generation von Frauen. Als immer mehr verbreitetes Bekleidungsstck am Strand fhrt der Bikini zu einem ganz...

Дата выхода: ноябрь 2013

En 1946, le monde dcouvrait un atoll des les Marshall : Bikini. En 1947, le couturier franais Louis Rard s\'emparait de ce nom pour en faire un vtement de bain pour les femmes. Rompant avec des dcennies de conformisme, M. Rard choisissait de dnuder leur corps pour mieux l\'habiller, de quelques morceaux d\'toffe. En adoptant le bikini sur les plages, les femmes sont amenes porter un nouveau regard sur elles-mmes. Bien plus qu\'un costume de bain, le bikini participe, dans les annes 70, la rvolution sexuelle et aux modifications comportementales dans les relations entre hommes et femmes. Ce livre dcrypte, travers l\'histoire du bikini, l\'volution de la femme, qui assume dsormais son corps et revendique l\'galit des sexes. travers une...

Дата выхода: октябрь 2013

It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis Rard borrowed the name and applied it to a bathing costume for women. Breaking from decades of conformity, Rard dared to ‘undress’ women’s bodies in order to better emphasize what remained clothed – albeit in tiny wisps of material. By taking up the bikini as popular beachwear, women also found themselves thinking differently about their bodies. An ideal of perfection was reinforced by the appearance on the cinema screen of stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress, all of whom were featured in bikinis that accentuated their own curvaceous contours. More than a...

Дата выхода: август 2013