The first time Cindy Crawford worked with the photographer Helmut Newton, the supermodel shed her all-American persona for a ...

Rayon - an artificial version of silk - was introduced in the 1930s, but it wasn't until the 1940s that swimwear technology really took off. Lycra is a lightweight, flexible material used in all sorts ...

Deborah Osterberg, curator of the Capitola Historical Museum, talks about the changes in women’s swimwear from the 1860s to the 1960s as part of the museum’s current exhibit “The Naughty ...