What article of clothing was created in 1946 by engineer Louis Reard and fashion designer Jacques Heim?
Jacques Heim (choreographer) Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. Heim has received three USA Fellowship nominations and four Alpert Awards in the Arts nominations. He received the Martha Hill Choreography Award of the American Dance Festival, as well as the Special Prize of the Jury at the 6th Saitama International Dance Festival. Heim also was awarded a Brody Arts Fund fellowship, and a James Irvine Foundation Fellowship. Heim's grandfather, also named Jacques Heim, was a Parisian fashion designer who invented the bikini alongside Louis Réard. Jacques Heim (choreographer) Jacques Heim is a French-born dance choreographer who founded Diavolo Dance Theater in
Jacques Heim Jacques Heim Jacques Heim (8 May 1899 – 8 January 1967) was a French fashion designer and costume designer for theater and film, and was a manufacturer of women's furs. From 1930 to his death in 1967, he ran the fashion house ("maison de couture") "Jacques Heim", which closed in 1969. He was president of the Paris "Chambre Syndicale de la haute couture" from 1958 to 1962, a period of transition from "haute couture" to ready-to-wear clothing. Jacques Heim was born in Paris. His parents were Isadore and Jeanne Heim, Jews of Polish origin. In the early 1920s, Heim started