The Elusive Bikini Inventor
Who would have thought that the bikini was invented by a Frenchman? Louis Reard is well documented as the founding father of this popular swimsuit. At the time he was designing it, he could have never imagined that a simple two-piece swimsuit would change the world forever. In the picture below, he is seen fitting one of his designs on a model and testing to see if it was as durable as he hoped to promote it was.

The Elusive Bikini Inventor
