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From California’s bronzed surfers to China’s facekinis: A history of tanning around the world

By Vincent Coëffé, Maître de conférences en géographie, Université d'Angers

It was Coco Channel who first made tanning fashionable. But South Californian and Polynesian surfers and American artists on the Côte d'Azur gave it its ‘raison d'être’.

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