- Designer
- Rudi Gernreich
Austria, active United States, California, Los Angeles, 1922-1985 - Title
- Woman's Swimsuit
- Date Made
- 1958
- Medium
- Wool knit
- Dimensions
- Center back length: 23 in. (58.42 cm)
- Accession Number
- CR.220.62-2
- Collecting Area
- Costume and Textiles
- Curatorial Notes
As a boy in Vienna, Rudi Gernreich spent countless hours sketching high fashion in his aunt’s dress shop. In California, following a career in dance, he based his fashion designs on the beauty of the body in motion. Renouncing garment construction methods of the 1950s that sculpted the female body into an idealized hourglass silhouette, Gernreich used wool knits to create dresses and swimsuits that clung daringly close to the bodies of their newly unfettered wearers.
(California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way," 2011-12)
- Selected Exhibition History
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 20, 2013 - June 3, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". July 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". November 2, 2013 - February 9, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014
- California Design, 1930–1965: "Living in a Modern Way". March 29, 2014 - July 6, 2014