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Encyclopedia > Rudi Gernreich

Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985) was a fashion designer and gay activist. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


He was an Austrian who fled Hitler at age 16, to find success as a fashion designer in the USA. In his early career he was a dancer, with the Lester Horton company around 1945. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... Brief introduction on the history of fashion design and designers Fashion design is the art dedicated to the creation of wearing apparel and lifestyle. ... Lester Horton (1906 – 1953) American dancer, choreographer, and teacher. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...


He moved into fashion design via fabric design, and then worked closely with model Peggy Moffitt and photographer William Claxton, pushing the boundaries of 'the futuristic look' in clothing over three decades. An exhibition of his work at the Phoenix Art Museum in 2003 hailed him as... "one of the most original, prophetic and controversial American designers of the 1950s, '60s and '70s." (Disambiguation: you may be looking for William Claxton (photographer), who worked for three decades with fashion designer Rudi Gernreich. ...


He is perhaps most notorious for inventing the first topless swimsuit, or monokini, as well as the pubikini (a bikini with a window in front to show off the womans pubic hair) and later the thong swimsuit. He was also known as the first designer to use vinyl and plastic in clothes, and he designed the Moonbase Alpha uniforms on the series Space: 1999. In 1964 Rudi Gernreich from Austria (but in the US) designed the monokini, a topfree bikini. ... LOrigine du monde by Gustave Courbet shows the pubic hair of a woman. ... See Thong for other meanings. ... Left to right: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell and Martin Landau from Space:1999s second season. ...


In the USA he was an influential co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the USA's first gay liberation movement. Although Mattachine's co-founder Harry Hay claimed 'never to have even heard' of the earlier gay liberation struggle in Germany - by the people around Adolf Brand, Magnus Hirschfeld and Leontine Sagan - he is known to have talked about it with Austrian & German emigres in America such as Rudi Gernreich. The Mattachine Society of New York, Inc. ... The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also... Harry Hay (April 7, 1912 - October 24, 2002) was a leader of the gay rights movement in the United States. ... Adolf Brand (1874-1945) was a German journalist and school teacher who began publishing the first German homosexual periodical, Der Eigene (The Special), in 1896. ... Magnus Hirschfeld Magnus Hirschfeld (Koburg, May 14, 1868 - May 14, 1935) was a prominent German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate. ... Leontine Sagan (born Leontine Schlesinger, 1889 in Vienna, Austria , died 1974 in South Africa) was a German actress. ...


Further reading

  • Peggy Moffitt. The Rudi Gernreich Book. (1999)

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Retroactive Profile - Rudi Gernreich (285 words)
To most people, Rudi Gernreich is the guy who invented the topless swimsuit, He should be remembered for a great deal more than that.
Gernreich's design for a "no bra" bra is still the undergarment of choice for most women in the Western world.
Gernreich was born in 1922 and died early in 1985.
Rudi Gernreich (998 words)
Gernreich studied dance before entering the world of fashion and, using as inspiration the practice clothes of dancers, particularly leotards and tights, he produced pared down body-clothes in the 1960s, aimed at what seemed to be the new woman of the era.
Gernreich's freeing of the breasts was a social statement, somehow part of the emancipation of women, and a portent of the unfettering of the breast by the women's movement in the 1970s.
Gernreich was also responsible for developing the concept of unisex, believing that as women achieved more freedom in the 1960s, male dress would emerge from the aesthetic exile into which it had been cast in the 19th century.
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