Foto de stock - May 03, 2007 - London, England, UK - Girls posing in bikini's in fashion shows, shoots and on beaches tanning. According to the official version, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Rekard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946 and introduced on July 5 at a fashion show at Piscine Molitor in Paris. It was a string bikini with a g-string back. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device. (Credit Image: © Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com)