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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.
Look was the first to publish, after LIFE refused, [20] a rear view of Moffitt modeling the swimsuit on June 2, 1964, [21] [22] and the following day columnist Carol Bjorkman of Women's Wear Daily published a frontal view picture of Moffitt wearing the suit. [21] The photograph became a world-wide news event. [23]
Moffitt said the design was a logical evolution of Gernreich's avant-garde ideas in swimwear design as much as a scandalous symbol of the permissive society. [34] He saw the swimsuit as a protest against repressive society. He predicted that "bosom will be uncovered within five years". He saw baring of a woman's breasts as a form of freedom. [35]
In December 1962 Rudi Gernreich first conceived of a topless swimsuit, but he didn't intend to produce the design commercially. It had more meaning to Gernreich as an idea than as a reality. [30] Gernreich had Peggy Moffitt model the suit in person for Vreeland, who asked him why he conceived of the design. Gernreich told her he felt it was ...
Peggy Moffit in Rudi Gernreich’s Monokini, 1964 ... As Moffitt said in 2012, ‘What was going on was a sort of feeling about sexuality, bosoms, and all that dirtiness. I think Gernreich broke ...
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[153] A photograph of Peggy Moffitt, the famous model for the suit, appeared in Women's Wear Daily, Life and numerous other publications. [ 154 ] Despite the negative reaction of fashion critics and church officials, shoppers purchased about 3000 of his swimsuit design at $24 each that summer, though the only woman reported as having worn it to ...
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