Challenge: Produce a comprehensive television documentary around the history of the swimsuit. Solution: Opening with on-camera cameos by legendary fashion authorities Oscar de La Renta, Oleg Cassini, Giorgio Sant'Angelo, Monika Tilley, Anne Cole, and Bill Blass, Neal Marshad photographed and directed "In the Beginning, God Created the Swimsuit." Result: Considered the definitive film on swimwear history, "In the Beginning…" was seen on MTV and later won a Gold Award at the International Film and TV Festival of New York.