Rudi Gernreich was a fashion designer and gay activist. Born in Vienna, he fled Austria at age 16 due to Nazism. He came to the U.S. , settling in Los Angeles, California. For a time, he had a career as a dancer, performing with the Lester Horton company around 1945. 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.

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  • Rudi Gernreich was a fashion designer and gay activist. Born in Vienna, he fled Austria at age 16 due to Nazism. He came to the U.S. , settling in Los Angeles, California. For a time, he had a career as a dancer, performing with the Lester Horton company around 1945. 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. " 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 reveal the woman's pubic hair) and later the thong swimsuit. He was also a strong advocate of unisex clothing, dressing male and female models in identical clothing and shaving their heads and bodies completely bald. He was also known as the first designer to use vinyl and plastic in clothes, and he designed the Moonbase Alpha uniforms on the television series '. He also designed Warners' 1972 "No-Bra Bra," which was made of sheer, stretchy fabric; had no metal wires or clips, and was pulled on over the head. It gave trendy women something they could buy from the bra manufacturers, but it was designed for women who had already stopped buying the industry's products. Like most of Gernreich's creations, it created a brief stir and then quietly disappeared. In the USA, Gernreich was an influential co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the USA's first gay liberation movement. Later in life, Gernreich chose to devote himself to cooking and selling soup.
  • Rudi Gernreich war Modedesigner und Schwulenaktivist. 1938 floh der jüdische Österreicher Gernreich vor der Verfolgung in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in die USA. Dort gründete er 1950 mit der Mattachine Society die erste Homosexuellenbewegung weltweit nach 1945. Seine Ideen und Designs machten ihn dort zu einem der einflussreichsten Modeschöpfer des 20. Jahrhunderts. Einige seiner Ideen waren die Oben ohne-Mode (sog. Monokini), der "Total Look" oder die Unisex-Mode. Diese zählen heute zum selbstverständlichen modischen Repertoire. In den sechziger Jahren jedoch führten Modevorschläge und Fotos seiner entworfenen Kleidung zu starken Unruhen, da er stets seiner Zeit voraus war. Er selbst erreichte aber eine große Popularität bei zahlreichen Interviews in Zeitungen und Fernsehsendungen. Von Rudi Gernreich stammen auch die Uniformen der Mondbesatzung in der Science-Fiction-Fernsehserie Mondbasis Alpha 1.
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  • Rudi Gernreich was a fashion designer and gay activist. Born in Vienna, he fled Austria at age 16 due to Nazism. He came to the U.S. , settling in Los Angeles, California. For a time, he had a career as a dancer, performing with the Lester Horton company around 1945. 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.
  • Rudi Gernreich war Modedesigner und Schwulenaktivist. 1938 floh der jüdische Österreicher Gernreich vor der Verfolgung in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in die USA. Dort gründete er 1950 mit der Mattachine Society die erste Homosexuellenbewegung weltweit nach 1945. Seine Ideen und Designs machten ihn dort zu einem der einflussreichsten Modeschöpfer des 20. Jahrhunderts. Einige seiner Ideen waren die Oben ohne-Mode (sog. Monokini), der "Total Look" oder die Unisex-Mode.
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