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 In 2003, in a UK Survey by Channel 4, her entrance in "Dr. No" was voted #1 in "the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments". Andress won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in 1964 for her appearance in the film. Andress followed it playing the female lead in an Elvis Presley musical, "Fun in Acapulco" (1963). She was billed after Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Anita Ekberg in "4 for Texas" (1963); her casting in the latter led the title being changed from "Two for Texas". Both films were widely seen. Less so was a film Andress