Rudy gernreich

“William Claxton The Rudi Gernreich Book Peggy Moffitt “Swinging London””

Rudi Gernreich appeared on the cover of the Dec. 1, 1967, issue of TIME under the banner headline "The Miniskirt Is Here to Stay." Stay it has, along with many of Gernreich's other era-defining...

Military style tunic 1970- 1971, by Rudi Gernreich. Made from wool. FIDM Museum.

Rudi was interested less in the details and decorations of clothes and more in how they looked in motion. In the 1950s he was designing relaxed, comfortable clothes fabricated out of wool, jersey, and other malleable materials, usually in solid colors or geometric shapes and checks. During the next decade he went on to use unusual fabrics and bold color disharmonies such as orange and blue or red and purple.

PEGGY MOFFITT by William Claxton — DEMONT PHOTO MANAGEMENT

Peggy Moffitt, fashion by Rudi Gernreich, 1965

The miniskirt was popularized by Mary Quant, who introduced the skirt at her London boutique Bazaar in 1964. Defined as a skirt with a hemline averaging halfway up the knee (and four inches below the butt!), it made fashion history because it showed more leg on a woman, helped democratize fashion and fueled a movement for women's social and sexual liberation that began in the 1960s.

Woman's Cloche, Rudolf Gernreich (Austria, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1922-1985) (United States, founded 1951), United States, California, 1958, Costumes, Wool felt, grosgrain ribbon.

THE MINISKIRT IS HERE TO STAY! (TILL SPRING, ANYWAY) [1967] RUDI GERNREICH RESORT SPRING COLLECTION [1968] HIGH, FREE, & WITH-IT Rudi Gernreich's fancies for spring vary dramatic minis with a diaper-like design derived from the Orient, a Siamese-inspired skirt with trousers, or Domino-like sacks which end in billowing bloomers. He also achieves new heights of nudity by using transparent vinyl straps, both in bathing suits and the loose shroud worn by his favourite model Peggy Moffit. YOUTH…

In Sharon Tate: Recollection, Debra Tate and Roman Polanski remember the young actress, who was murdered in 1969.