Paula Stafford, the woman who made the bikini famous in Australia, had been included in the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

The Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame is an award-giving body that celebrates people and organisation's achievement of creating a highly impressive image of the state.

Ms Stafford, now 93 years old, accepted the hall of fame award through a black-tie gala ceremony held in Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, on Thursday, July 25, 2013.

In 1940, Ms Stafford wore a bikini which she made herself. A stranger then approached her asking where she bought what she was wearing. This incident inspired her to enter the world of bikini fashion.

She begun selling her bikini within that year and decades after, her fashion had became known not just in the country but internationally.

Her move had became really iconic in the Australian history that her bikini designs were displayed on walls of some galleries and museums.

In a report from The Australian, Ms Stafford, who was born in Melbourne, said that she had different career plans which making bikini famous in Australia was never a part of. She wanted to pursue a career in architecture.

"I had a notebook and would design unit blocks and buildings but my headmistress said I should study something more feminine. I thought that was a big joke."

Ms Stafford then left all her plans of becoming an architect and instead enrolled in the Emily McPherson School of Domestic Economy. She soon started designing and making her own bikini, which later on became the hottest beach fashion in the entire Gold Coast beaches.

"We were living at Surfers Paradise and everybody wanted what I was wearing. I kept telling them I was too busy with four children but I agreed to make one for someone and orders rushed in, it all went a bit bonkers."

As much as her design had reached the international consumers, with 400 shops globally, Ms Stafford always acknowledges that her success was home grown.

"We lived right on top of the business in Surfers Paradise where it all started. The kids came into the business as they grew up. I just loved what I was doing."

In decades long of being hands-on with her business, Ms Stafford said she is now delegating responsibilities to her children so she can be away for travel and holidays.

In a printed copy of Boom Magazine by the Courier-Mail, Ms Stafford was described as "the woman who is credited with created the first bikini, and turning that simple two-piece into a decade's long fashion career with a world-wide branding - and achieved that long before what we now call globalisation. One of her strengths was marketing, and she embraced the controversy her designs sparked to attract attention and sales."