"Arguable more incendiary than Dior's New Look (and preceding it by a year) was the bikini, designed by a Frenchman and shown at the Molitor Pool in Paris. The bikini (named after the Bikini atoll in the Pacific) was the first time fashion declared the navel the center of attention. Another decade would pass before the bikini was immortalized by Brigitte Bardot in the film And God Created Woman."