Rudi Gernreich

 United States The play revolves around two closeted professionals who lived in Los Angeles in the mid-20th century, Harry Hay, a teacher and labor advocate (played by Thomas Jay Ryan) and Rudi Gernreich, a fashion designer (Michael Urie, of abc's “Ugly Betty”). ...

By Jen Fergie is on the cover of the next issue of Allure magazine where she poses topless in a Rudi Gernreich vintage inspired bathing suit. Read more and see photos here. Fergie is the cover girl for the next issue of Allure. ... The Allure of Fergie Topless? The Hollywood Gossip

 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 ...

 CA Dresses are 'hard' to wear for Laura, and Kate says their goal is not to wear the latest pieces but change the shape of American fashion. People think American fashion is all about sportswear and the bland, but if you look back to Gernreich and Adrian, ...

She told Britain's Independent newspaper: 'People think American fashion is all about sportswear and the bland, but if you look back to Gernreich and Adrian ... and more »

 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. ...

 Romania Reinventat in Brazilia in 1974 (ultimul an in care regele fotbalului, Pele, a mai evoluat la Santos, din 1975 el plecand la New York Cosmos), chilotelul tanga (foto 2) a fost lansat international, ca „thong", in Statele Unite, de catre Rudi Gernreich, ...

 OH Currently -- "The Kokoon Arts Club Cleveland Revels," Michael Kors Designs, "Confessions and the Sense of Self," "Great American Glass," "The Art of the Embroiderer" and "Rudi Gernreich Bold," Kent State University's Museum. ...

 Romania Desen de monokini creat de Rudi Gernreich in 1964; 4. Tankono; 5. Camkini; 6. Bandini; 7. Minikini; 8. Sexkini Undeva, in Pacificul de Nord, atolul Bikini (din componenta Insulelor Marshall) a intrat, fara vina si fara voie, in constiinta lumii prin ...

 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, ...

 CT Though married and with children, Hay was having an affair with up-and-coming designer Rudi Gernreich who became so famous for the women's topless bathing suit that he landed on the front cover of Time magazine. A Jewish refugee from Austria, ...

 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, ...

 NEW YORK in a Richard Avedon photo; the topless bathing suit Rudi Gernreich made in 1964 that, as demonstrated by Peggy Moffitt in a William Claxton photo, drew a sharp line between the elegant look of 1950s models and the "youthquake" of the '60s; ...

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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 ...

 Indonesia 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. There is the haughtily aristocratic Donyale Luna, ...

 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. ...

Try the monokini, it takes inspiration from the suit Austrian designer Rudi Gernreich created in 1964. Way back when there was a sexual revolution and everything became more revealing this suit came on to the scene. The original design completely ...

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

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. ...

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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 The Kwiasatz haderach His work appeared in Interview, Time, Life and Vogue and he teamed up with his wife, model Peggy Moffitt, to work in the field of fashion with designer Rudi Gernreich. Claxton also took many candid snaps of legendary film stars, ...

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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. ...

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 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 ...

The monokini (also called a unikini) was invented by Austrian fashion designer Rudi Gernreich. Initially it was a one-piece bathing suit cut below the chest leaving the breasts bare. Later Gernreich created the skimpier pubekini, ...

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 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...