Rudi Gernreich

Fashions by visionaries Rudi Gernreich and Jean-Paul Gaultier illustrate how some designers played with the notions of shape and construction, ... and more »

Fashions by visionaries Rudi Gernreich and Jean-Paul Gaultier illustrate how some designers played with the notions of shape and construction, ... and more »

Fashions by visionaries Rudi Gernreich and Jean-Paul Gaultier illustrate how some designers played with the notions of shape and construction, ...

 France This style of swimsuit is accredited to the American fashion designer Rudi Gernreich who, in 1964, brought it to popularity and is said to have first used the term, monokini. Monokinis are only for the most daring of women and for those beaches where ...

 NY The first significant American gay group was the Mattachine Society, founded in Los Angeles by Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich in 1950 -- and now being dramatized in a new play called The Temperamentals at the Barrow Group Theatre through July 5 with ...

 UK Yet by the time the family moved to Pasadena, not far from LA, the fashion virus had taken root. They drew, they sewed, they nursed a passion for the designs of Rudi Gernreich (creator of the topless swimsuit) and Adrian, the costume designer. ...

 UK The thong is thought to have first emerged in 1939, after NewYork major Fiorello LaGuardia urged the city's erotic dancers to cover up. Then in 1946, Jacques Heim's and Louis Réard's original bikini featured a thong. Designer Rudi Gernreich is credited ...

 CO President Obama zeroes funding for "abstinence only" education programs in his budget Andy reviews a new play, "The Tempermentals," about Harry Hay and Rudy Gernreich and their founding of the Mattachine Society, the first continuous US gay group, ...

 United States His principal collaborator was his lover at the time, Rudi Gernreich (Michael Urie), a Hollywood costume designer and Viennese Jew who had escaped the Holocaust and who, years later, would become famous as the creator of the topless bathing suit. ...

 Kuwait While fashionistas will likely savor every nuance, the fashion illiterate will recognize the aristocratic Dorian Leigh, Twiggy, Peggy Moffitt in a topless bathing suit by Rudi Gernreich, the athletic Cheryl Tiegs and Christie Brinkley, ...

There is Peggy Moffitt, the model whose impassive face and stylized posture added a compelling Kabuki element to her collaborations with provocateur designers like Rudi Gernreich (she modeled his famous Topless bathing suit in 1964). ...

While fashionistas will likely savor every nuance, the fashion illiterate will recognize the aristocratic Dorian Leigh, Twiggy, Peggy Moffitt in a topless bathing suit by Rudi Gernreich, the athletic Cheryl Tiegs and Christie Brinkley, ...

 NY - David Finkle, David Finkle The case is dismissed due to a hung jury, Jennings becomes a community hero, and the society gathers more members, even as Hay and Gernreich have their personal differences over Gernreich's fashion career and Hay is summoned to appear before the House ...

Other movie-set effects include a mannequin of the model/muse Peggy Moffitt, posing topless in a 1964 Rudi Gernreich swimsuit; a sculpture of Brooke Shields in the original Calvin Klein jeans that she supposedly wore over bare flesh; or models chilling ...

 United States There is Peggy Moffitt, the model whose impassive face and stylized posture added a compelling Kabuki element to her collaborations with provocateur designers like Rudi Gernreich (she modeled his famous “Topless” bathing suit in 1964). ...

 CA In the '60s, Peggy Moffitt became famous as a muse to late fashion designer Rudi Gernreich and for her trademark page-boy bob. Guess what she looks like now! 2. Second! *punches the punk who is first. JcPenney sucks. Dont shop there! 5. ...

Rudi Gernreich was America's leading avant-garde fashion designer in the 1950s and '60s, pioneering such fashions as the no-shape bathing suit ... history.com

 FL - Dec 17, 2008 It was originally a collection of vintage fashion," Perry said, naming André Courreges, Pierre Cardin, Rudi Gernreich and Emilio Pucci as some of her ...

 United States - Dec 11, 2008 the founding of a gay organization called the Mattachine Society by eight gay men (including Rudy Gernreich, the designer of the topless bathing suit). ...

By Will Kane Claxton/Moffitt/Gernreich: 'Basic Black' (1967). ... Giallo: The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972). aka "P... Hector Guimard (1867-1942). Link. Link 2. Link 3. ... Le Pacha (1968). Films de France review. A daring... Fame at last. ...

By katelivesinbrooklyn Suddenly feel like Carrie Bradshaw? That’s because you’re looking at the inside of her fictional soul, otherwise known as Archive. This online mecca for the best of the best in vintage and dead stock from the 1960’s - 1990’s is operated by Kerry Bonnell, former manager of an NYC boutique wi...

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 NY - Nov 17, 2008 Nonetheless I pay tribute to Rudi Gernreich, the designer of the thong; he was also creator of the topless bathing suit a decade ago. Gernreich's topless ...

But probably the most controversial style was Rudi Gernreich’s monokini introduced in 1964. Thin straps were connected to the bottom brief leaving the torso completely exposed. Women were actually arrested on beaches for wearing it. ...

The 250-piece collection focuses on designs by pioneering fashion visionaries such as Pierre Cardin, André Courrèges and Paco Rabanne, who launched the space-age fashion cult of the mid 1960’s; and the American, Rudi Gernreich, ...

 NY - Nov 4, 2008 circa 1966; a saffron-colored, smiley face-pocked wool sweater from Marc Jacobs, circa 1985, and a topless swimsuit by Rudi Gernreich circa 1964. ...

By Glamoursurf Rudi Gernreich launched the No Bra Bra in 1964 at a time when the more structured padded, wired uplift bra was the norm. Gernreich conceived a soft, minimal sheer bra that went along with the often unstructured styles of the time, ...

Rudi Gernreich Wool Topless Monokini, 1964. Sold for $2075. Gernreich is hailed as one of the most controversial and original American designers of this era, and was famous for being the first to create a topless swimsuit, ...

By LA Weekly included a shot of Peggy Moffitt and Bill Claxton sailing in the '50s, a 1958 group portrait of the Ferus Gallery stable recently made familiar in the documentary The Cool School, a 1970 shot for Rudi Gernreich’s UNISEX ...

 CA - Oct 21, 2008 His most famous photograph is likely the one of his wife, Peggy Moffitt, posing in Rudi Gernreich's topless swimsuit. His outside work ranges from the ...

 United States - Oct 20, 2008 And since his wife was Peggy Moffitt, designer Rudi Gernreich's favorite model, Claxton took some of the most memorable fashion pictures of the '60s. ...

William J. Claxton, 80; Made 'Jazz For the Eyes'  United States - Oct 14, 2008 assignments in the 1960s and collaborated with his wife, model Peggy Moffitt, on images featuring the topless bathing suit designs of Rudi Gernreich.

Photographer William Claxton (pictured at left) died from complications of congestive heart failure on Saturday in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Best known for his photographs of jazz musicians such as Chet Baker and Duke Ellington, Pasadena-born Claxton also took iconic fashion photo...

By pHinn William Claxton was married to Peggy Moffitt, one of the iconic and often-imitated 1960s models in fashion photography and a muse to fashion designer Rudi Gernreich (1922 - 1985): Claxton's photographs of Moffitt in Gernreich's designs ...

By Rose Apodaca Along with designer Rudi Gernreich, the trio collaborated, bravely and feverishly, on crafting a vision of modernity that three decades later remains innovative, edgy and provocative. Generations of artists, from fashion and graphic ...

By Cathy Horyn William Claxton 1927-2008 Legendary photographer best known in the fashion world for taking the photograph of his wife Peggy Moffitt in a top-less swimsuit designed by Rudi Gernreich. — Posted by Hutton. 29. October 14th, ...

scfan, Oh yeah, the monokini. Ha,ha. She would go prancing in that up to Cooper's office. Later, she would wear the pubikini (with open front show of pubic hair also by Rudi Gernreich) for Roger. ...

Pierre Cardin, American designer Rudi Gernreich and Yves Saint Laurent, who became head designer at Christian Dior after Dior's untimely death, are among those who heavily influenced 1960s fashion with androgynous shapes and futuristic ...

Gernreich may have become famous for his banned bathing suit, but it is his design style and statement that brings his work to the museum for fashion students and the public to explore the galleries. For sophomore fashion major Michelle ...

By Glamoursurf Gernreich designed swimsuits without interior foundations for Bass from 1952-1959, and swimwear for Westwood Knitting Mills from 1955-1960. Harmon Knitwear, Inc. in Marinette, Wis. made most of Gernreich's swim-suits and all of his ...

By Dry Manhattan 1964: The bi- ("two") kini becomes the mono- ("one") kini, in the eyes of designer Rudi Gernreich. The Vatican denounces the topless garb. An unrepentant Gernreich sells more than 3000 suits in less than a season in Europe. ...

By Peter Rivendell In 1964 he one-upped himself with the topless bathing suit. Basically a classic one-piece women's swimsuit, Gernreich cropped it just above the waist and supported it with a V-shaped pair of thin, over-the-shoulder straps, thus exposing ...

By the radman fashion designer in the 1960s and '70s, founded the Mattachine Society in 1951, the first US "homophile" organization. Gernreich was an Austrian refugee from the Nazis who brought with him both his left-wing politics and his knowledge ...

Rudi Gernreich. See this exciting exhibition of iconic designer Rudi Gernreich's clothing, chosen from the Museum's private collection. Address. Kent State University Museum Rockwell Hall Corner of E. Main & S. Lincoln Kent, OH 44242 ...

“The Gernreich Agenda is now in motion,” Lisa said as she held up her 1964 topless bikini. “Wait until they get a load of me!” She stopped and wondered… “do you think Ashcoft is in the white pages?” The Gernreich Agenda ...

By Daniel Saynt Marc Jacobs Thom Browne Michael Kors Alber Elbaz Sir Norman Hartnell Christian Dior Rudi Gernreich Sir Hardy Amies Yves Saint Laurent Valentino Garavani Roy Halston Frowick Calvin Klein Gianni Versace Giorgio Armani Perry Ellis Willi ...

By Diane Pernet circa 1986 including Madeleine homage; looks from Spring 2010 collections for fashion insiders; anything by Rudi Gernreich, even knock-offs; Liquid Sky languidness; or Diane Pernet Killed Iceland Fashion Week tees all night long. ...

By valentina Peggy Moffitt in Rudi Gernreich + The Jam =. gwen stefani, LAMB, peggy moffit, the jam.

By Patt Morrison A Chanel pearl torsade, a 1960s Rudi Gernreich knit suit -- he invented the topless swimsuit -- 1950s beaded cashmere sweaters and I. Miller shoes, an original Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress, 1970s Bottega Veneta lizard platform shoes, a Bonnie Cashin leather coat, an early Judith Lei...

IT was a dream date for any fashion designer, caught by Vogue magazine, on this upbeat day in 1971. Marilyn Lewis makes an adjustment to the beaded blue detailing on a lam gown before the formal shoot begins. The floral chiffon with ruffles was already a signature bestseller. "I didn't do a lot...