Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style review – lidos, Speedos and atomic bombs
30-03-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com

Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style review – lidos, Speedos and atomic bombs

Design Museum, London
Swimming’s deep and shallow ends are granted equal weight in an engaging show that ranges from Pamela Anderson’s Baywatch cossie to South Korea’s female free divers and the explosive naming of the bikiniAt the end of Splash!, the Design Museum’s new exhibition on “a century of swimming and style”, there’s a film about the haenyeo – women on the South Korean island of Jeju who for centuries have been diving for seafood and seaw
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