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 carry out a mission. It was a big box office hit. Her fee was a reported £200,000. In Italy she appeared alongside fellow former Bond girl Claudine Auger in "Anyone Can Play" (1968) for director Luigi Zampa. She then went to Africa to make "The Southern Star" (1969) with George Segal, which was a hit in England. She went on to appear nude or semi-nude in nearly all of her film roles between 1969 and 1979, earning her the nickname "Ursula Undress". Andress went to England to appear in "Perfect Friday" (1970), a heist movie starring Stanley Baker and David