Word: nudeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nude Ritual. On his own, Gernreich has prospered. The medium-high-priced ($90 to $500) clothes that he puts out under his own label gross close to $1,000,000 a year. The lower-priced ($40 to $125) knitwear that he creates for Harmon grosses another $2,000,000. Just this year, he also contracted to design silk signature scarves for Glentex and a collection of knee socks, stockings and panty hose for the McCallum Boutique...
Scarcely a day goes by at his house without Gernreich's taking a ritual sun-bath and a swim in the nude in his private pool, where he also tests out new swimsuit fabrics. As a former dancer and an outdoors-loving Californian, he believes wholeheartedly in the natural body. He has carried his beliefs into practice. Today, Editor of French Vogue Françoise de Langlade de La Renta claims: "No one has freed the body like Rudi Gernreich, and I doubt that anyone so overflows with ideas." One of his most liberating designs was a simple knit tank suit...
...keep their property tidy. Suharto's wife Titi (Sukarno had seven wives in all) often appears beside her husband in public, dutifully entertains diplomats' wives and has exhibited a matronly determination of her own by stripping Merdeka Palace of Sukarno's collection of nude paintings...
...exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen in Woman and Child, is allied to the parents by De Kooning's inimitable soiled-pink flesh tones...
...Whiteley stop there. Above his self-portrait erupt five flat thought balloons, containing a photo of a nude torso, a tube of oozing white oil paint, a fungoid dream landscape with a bit of highway, a montage of Hitler in a motorcade emoting into a zebra-striped speech bubble-and a question mark. The whole is obviously meant to depict the varied factors that Whiteley believes shaped his artistic sensibility; the balloons are also signs pointing to Whiteley's belief that life is a journey to be traveled and that it is dominated by the demonic force of history...