1. RUDI GERNREICH Irmina Ragauskaite 2008

2. RUDI GERNREICH  The premier fashion designer in the 60’s (1922 – 1985)  Moved to USA in 1938  An influential co-founder of the Mattachine Society

3. Significant moments of USA history during Gernreich’s life time  The end of World War II (1940-1945)  Cold War  Vietnam War  Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)  Rock and Roll music  Women fight for their rights  Sexual revolution  Hippie culture

4.  Conservative  Gray flannel suits and dresses with pinched in waists and high heels  Bill Blass and his blue jeans

5.  Poodle skirts  Pencil skirt  Flat tops and crew cuts for guys  Saddle shoes and blue suede loafers  Mini skirts  1960’s Hippie decade

6. GERNREICH’S significance in 1950- 1980 fashion  First topless swimsuit  First thong swimsuit  Unisex idea  First to use vinyl & plastic in clothes  Designed first knitted tube dresses  Combined unusual colors  Costume design  “no bra” bra

7. INSPIRATION  model Peggy Moffitt  Dancers’ clothes  Childhood in Vienna  Sexual revolution

8. REFERENCES http://dept.kent.edu/museum/exhibit/gernreich/main.htm http://www.citypaper.net/articles/091301/cov.fall.rudi.shtml http://julian1st.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/rudi-gernreichtopless-swimsuit-designer- with-vision-a-great-man/ http://www.glbtq.com/arts/gernreich_r.html http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/gernreich.php http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html http://www.fashionencyclopedia.com/Fr- Gu/Gernreich-Rudi.html