Two pieces
« There she was, almost naked, in front of the pool at Molitor. Exposed for all to see, in this great? Paquebot? With its terracotta-colored facades and 1930s architecture ». At a fashion show in 1946, France discovered couturier Louis Réard’s atomic bomb: the bikini. In the audience, Gaby, a young girl “all frail, with diaphanous skin”, takes notes. A young man calls out to her. It’s Antoine, her great love whom she hasn’t seen since the Exodus. He helped design the first two-piece swimsuit?
In this light-colored fiction, Eliette Abécassis explores the unspoken issues that hovered over the Liberation of France? And of women.
