White bikini of Ursula Andress buckles and fittings, and a scabbard on the left side to hold a large knife. The first bikini had been worn at a Paris fashion show in 1946, but in the 1950s the bikini was still seen as something of a taboo. Andress' bikini arrived at a key moment in the history of women's fashion, coming at the "birth of the sexual revolution": the 1960s. In the corresponding scene of the original novel, the character Honeychile Rider wears only a leather belt with a scabbard, and no bikini. Andress designed the bikini along with "Dr. No"s costume designer Tessa Prendergast,
Ursula Andress Andress, the third of six children, was born in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland to a German couple, Anna, a landscape gardener, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat who was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons. He disappeared during World War II. She has a brother and four sisters. She went to school in Berne until she was 16 and became fluent in French, German and Italian. She studied art in Paris for a year, then went to Rome, where she did jobs such as nannying children. Andress was at a party when she met a producer who offered her