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2. Rudi Gernreich - Wikipedia

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   Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich [1] (August 8, 1922 – April 21, 1985) was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s. He purposefully used fashion design as a social statement to advance sexual freedom, producing clothes that followed the ...

3. File:Rudi Gernreich c.1964 monokini, exhibited at 'The Vulgar ...

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   English: Bathing costume, designed by Rudi Gernreich, United States, c. 1964. Collection of Modemuseum Hasselt. Rudi Gernreich was the first designer to design and have manufactured a topless bathing costume. The design caused great controversy and generated a massive amount of publicity and notoriety for the designer.

4. Peggy Moffitt, Actor and Model for Famous Topless Bathing ...

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   Peggy Moffitt, the actor and model who became a 1960s mod icon wearing designer Rudi Gernreich’s famous topless bathing suit design and other bold looks of the era, died Saturday in Beverly Hills.

5. A cultural history of swimsuits from au naturel to ooh la la

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   Rudi Gernreich's breast-baring monokini, which featured just two halter straps where a typical upper portion would be, helped support the push toward liberation. ... Swimwear was tight-fitting and ...

6. Bikini variants - Wikipedia

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   Rudi Gernreich's original 1964 monokini. A monokini, more commonly referred to as a topless swimsuit and sometimes referred to as a unikini, is a women's one-piece swimsuit equivalent to the lower half of a bikini. [18] [19] [20] In 1964, Rudi Gernreich, an Austrian fashion designer, designed the original monokini in the US. [21]

7. The 50 Most Iconic Looks of All Time - AOL

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   Peggy Moffit in Rudi Gernreich’s Monokini, 1964 “Sixties icon and future incarnate Peggy Moffitt wears the 20th century’s most radical garment: the monokini by Rudi Gernreich. First featured ...