The History of the Bikini

Jacques Heim and Louis Reard - Bikini Inventors
The inventors were two Frenchmen, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard. Of coursework, Heim and Reard didn't generate the idea of the bikini; drawings of bikini-like suits have been found on wall paintings dating back to 1600 B.C.

The bikini was invented in 1946 and named after the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the site of atomic bomb testing.

Atome Bikini
The modern term "bikini" for a particular bathing suit design was first used by Heim and Reard (who were, in reality, the re-inventors of the bikini). Heim was a couturier designer from Cannes, France, who had designed a tiny bathing suit called the "Atome" (italian for atom). They hired a skywriting plane to advertise his design by skywriting "Atome -- the world's smallest bathing suit" Six weeks later, Reard, a mechanical engineer, had another skywriting plane write "Bikini -- smaller than the smallest bathing suit in the world."