The first formal presentation of string bikini was done by Glen Tororich, a public relations agent, and his wife Brandi Perret-DuJon, a fashion model, for the opening of Le Petite Centre, a shopping area in the French Quarter of the New Orleans, Louisiana in Los Angeles Times Magazine. In she acted in Richard Linklater 's film Dazed and Confused. The bikini was banned on the French Atlantic coastline, Spain, Italy, [6] Portugal and Australia, and was prohibited or discouraged in a number of US states. Increasingly common glamour shots of popular actresses and models on either side of the Atlantic played a large part in bringing the bikini into the mainstream.