About Micheline Bernardini
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. He hired Bernardini, an 18-year-old nude dancer from the Casino de Paris, as his model. Photographs of Bernardini and articles about the event were widely carried by the press. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received over 50,000 fan letters.
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