OUR TOP 10 LISTS

10. Two-Piece Swimsuits

During WWII, the newly designed two-piece bathing suit was popularized to save material and money. Women thought it their "patriotic duty" to wear less material to the beach.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

Author: Full Frontal Fashion

9. Micheline Bernardini

Micheline Bernardini wore the first swimwear that exposed the belly button, created by Louis Reard, who turned the two-piece swimsuit into the scandalous, stripped-down bikini.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

8. Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe poses in a two-piece polka-dot bathing suit in 1951.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

7. Brigitte Bardot

When Brigitte attends the 1953 Cannes Film Festival in a bikini, flaunting her voluptuous curves, sensual eyes, and luscious locks, the bikini went from sinful to modernized in the public eye... at least for the forward-thinking French.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

6. Ursula Andress

Swiss Actress and sex symbol of the 1960's, Ursula Andress, made Bond girls famous with her iconic spin on the bikini in her role as Honey Ryder in DR. NO.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

5. Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch took the bikini all the way back to prehistoric times when she flaunted an animal-skin bikini in ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

4. Goldie Hawn

Goldie Hawn sports an itsy bitsy green bikini and bold pixie cut for a photo shoot.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

3. Nicollette Sheridan

The 80s weren't all bad. Nicollette Sheridan's body was made to show off this high-waist bikini with a bandeau top.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

2. Itty-bitty bikini

A model bares all in a bikini creation from the house of Iodice during the Sao Paulo Fashion Week June 2001. We wonder what Louis Reard, inventor of the bikini, would think about this!

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI

1. Cameron Diaz

Allowing for both beach bod glamour and ass kicking flexibility, this bold white bikini was anything but angelic for CHARLIE'S ANGELS star Cameron Diaz.

LOVE/LUST & THE BIKINI