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Rudi Gernreich

More daring than Europeans.

Most of these works were sensational, but soon disappeared.

And in life, he is a conservative American.

"Fashion is always out of date."

When he said this, how could Rudi Gernreich think that his design was still too avant-garde in twenty-first Century.

The monikini, which he invented 47 years ago, is far from popular today. It was not even seen at a Rudi Gernreich auction last year in Chicago.

Not to mention his other great invention, "pubikini", this bikini opened a hole in the key part of the lower body.

Gernreich disagrees with the restrictions and restrictions imposed by fashion on women's bodies.

However, the "asexual dress" that he strongly advocated is different from what you think - for example, he will make his hair and hair completely stripped off exactly the same as men and women.

His asexual does not mean that he is not sexy. On the contrary, their pornography is more obvious.

In addition to the two bikini that nobody dared to wear, he was also keen on binding bathing suits, body stickers and psychedelic colors. He made models wear giraffe pattern suits with Giraffe striped shorts, tights and shoes; his mini skirt was the real Mini length; he was the first person to make clothes with plastic materials; he designed the moon base Alfa uniform for the 1975 British science fiction "Space: 1999".

In 1972, he cooperated with Warner's underwear company to launch "No-Bra Bra", a kind of pparent elastic fabric, without steel rings and buckles, and can wear a bra like a pullover.

They are undoubtedly prepared for women who are at the forefront of the trend.

The problem is that such women have stopped buying bras.

The fate of many of Gernreich's works, like this bra, has disappeared after being hit by a sensation.

In 1967, the United States as a leader.

Gernreich boarded the cover of time magazine and stood by his two models: Peggy Moffitt and Leon Bing.

Bing later became a writer in her memoirs, swans and pistols, about her cooperation with Gernreich.

Moffitt is the model in Antonioni's movie enlargement.

You can also find one of their Rudi Gernreich fashion videos Basic Black on YouTube.

In 1922, Gernreich was born in Vienna. Although he was the only child in his family, his father was killed when he was 8 years old.

When he was a child, his first personality fantasies were the leather leggings and leather belts tied to the workmen's trousers, and the white thighs exposed on the black stockings of women.

After the merger of Germany and Austria in 1938, Gernreich fled to Losangeles with her mother as a Jewish refugee.

Gernreich's first job was to clean the body in the autopsy department.

Later, he recalls, "when someone says that my clothes are so tight, I always smile when I have learned anatomy.

I did learn.

From 1942 to 1948, Gernreich became a member of the Leslie Horton modern dance troupe.

In his future design, it is not difficult to wear the shadow of realistic dancing clothes. His debut is also a dance suit.

After becoming famous, he has always been inclined to "subtraction" in design.

As he said in 1972, "I think today's fashion design is more editors than design."

In 1951, he founded Mattachine as a 7 member of the gay community, and his founder, Harry Hay, was his lover at that time.

In 2009, his image accompanied Mattachine's story on Broadway.

However, Gernreich did not disclose his homosexuality until his death. When he died with Oreste Pucciani, who lived with him for 31 years, donated their property to the American Civil Liberties Union, his sexual orientation was only made public.

Pucciani, director of the French Department of University of California at Los Angeles, is famous for his plation of French philosopher Sutter.

When he met him, Gernreich just emerged in the fashion industry.

Their houses at the Hollywood hill are tasting uncommon. Outside the house is a floating pool. The house is not only furnished with Eames, Van der Rohe, Bertoia and other famous designers, but also Gernreich's own works. The tables he designs are like doors and boxes, placed on rugs sewn with polished leather.

Bing says her boss is a very privacy conscious person, and his home is like a "walled city fortress".

Gernreich is regarded as one of the most original, predictable and controversial American designers in 50, 60 and 70s in twentieth Century.

In 1981, 4 years before his death, he released his last series, which, compared with his representative works, or today's eyes, shows that those clothes are not good enough.

At that time, his name has been gradually forgotten.

Bing thought he should retire earlier, so that people could not remember that he wore a chef hat to sell some kind of soup's ridiculous appearance. By the way, Gernreich became addicted to cooking in his old age.

Wikipedia said he invented the "chili soup", a cold soup that was served in the chili jar and served with caviar and lemon.