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 seven years. In Italy, she starred opposite Marcello Mastroianni in the science fiction movie "The 10th Victim" (1965). She returned to Hollywood to play George Peppard's love interest in the World War One film, "The Blue Max" (1966), another success at the box office. Andress made her second film for Seven Arts: another with Derek, who again starred and directed, "Once Before I Die" (1966), shot in the Philippines. More widely seen was the Bond satire "Casino Royale" (1967), also produced by Feldman, where Andress played Vesper Lynd, an occasional spy who persuades Evelyn Tremble, played by Peter Sellers, to