Word: rudy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taste and a discriminating eye, in a flair for fabric and a sense of color, in a subtle bit of seamwork, an intricate set of pleats, a bead, a button, some spangles, a feather. Norell is neither set in his ways, like Mainbocher, nor out to amaze like Rudi Gernreich (of the topless-suit Gernreichs). He is a fashion moderate in step with the day, inventive but practical, inspired but patient. His virtues have paid off in a long line of fashion hits: the evening shirtwaist, the empire look, the chemise, the wool evening dress, the sequined sheath and culottes...
...Rudi Gernreich was bored to tears with necklines. The V neck, the scoop neck, the boat neck, the turtle neck, the square neck, even the deep-cut plunge, all seemed drags. But the California designer is an all-action-no-talk man, and in no time at all he had pulled himself together and come up with a rather refreshing idea: drop a neckline low enough, say to the waist. Then it actually won't be a neckline at all, and no one will be even the least bit bored...
...Rudi was right as rain. His topless bathing suit (designed as "a prediction of things to come") was first modeled in the flesh for buyers early this month, drew S.R.O. crowds and, of course, caused raging controversy. "Now come, boys," wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, "girls have been dropping the tops of their suits for years." "It has no dignity," snipped Designer Norman Norell, "it's rock bottom." Colleague Oleg Cassini explained that the suit could hardly influence him. "I'm already very conscious," he yawned, "of that part of the anatomy." Through...
Another idea for Rudi-should things get boring again...
...RUDI KESSELS Leuven, Belgium...