The bikini first appeared in a fashion event at a poolside show at the Piscine Molitor in Paris on July 5, 1946. Fashion designer Jacques Heim and mechanical engineer Louis Reard both claim to be the first to launch the bikini. The word bikini comes from the Latin bi, meaning "two," and kini, meaning "square inches of Lycra."
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