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 starred in alongside Derek, "Nightmare in the Sun" (1965). In 1965, nude photographs of her from "Nightmare in the Sun" were published in "Playboy"; it would be the first of seven times she was pictured in the magazine over the next fifteen years. When asked why she had agreed to do the "Playboy" shoot, Andress replied coolly, "Because I'm beautiful." Andress was cast in the title role of "She" (1965) playing an immortal queen, for Hammer Films and Seven Arts Productions, shot in England and Israel. Andress agreed to make it as part of a two-picture deal with Seven Arts.