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bond girls edit meme - one favorite bond girl - Xenia Onatopp (Goldeneye, 1995)

❝ It’s a mystery. All I did was wear this bikini in Dr. No - not even a small one - and whoosh! Overnight, I made it.  ― Ursula Andress

❝ This bikini made me into a success. As a result of starring in Dr. No as the first Bond girl, I was given the freedom to take my pick of future roles and to become financially independent. My entrance in the film wearing the bikini on that beautiful beach seems to now be regarded as a classical moment in cinema, and made me world famous as ‘the Bond girl.’  ― Ursula Andress

❝ In the original Ian Fleming novel, her character of Honey Ryder’s first appearance was described as being “Not quite naked. She wore a broad leather belt around her wait with a hunting knife in a leather sheath at her right hip. The best made her nakedness extraordinarily erotic […] She was Botticelli’s Venus, seen from behind.” Obviously, the film’s producers had made a real casting coup by hiring such a striking looking woman to embody the screen version of the fictional character.  ― Tom Lisanti, Louis Paul, Film Fatales: Women in Espionage, Films and Television

❝ Andress’s white bikini is regarded as monumental in the history of the bikini, and sales of the two-piece bikini rocketed after the appearance of Andress in Dr. No. The lower part of the bikini features a wide white British Army belt with brass buckles and fittings, and a scabbard on the left side to hold a large knife. Andress designed the bikini along with Dr. No’s costume designer Tessa Prendergast, whom she first met while living in Rome. Andress reported that when she arrived in Jamaica for filming, no costumes were ready. She worked with director Terence Young and the costume designer to create something that fit her 5'6", 36–24–36 frame. It was made from ivory cotton and was the only one made and worn by her.  ― Wikipedia