Cutout Dresses
Clothing style
By: Rudy Gernreich
Date: 1967
Source: "The Costume Institute." Metropolitan Museum of Art. Available online at http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=8; website home page: http://www.metmuseum.org (accessed May 3, 2003).
About the Designer: Rudy Gernreich (1922–1985), was born in Austria. In 1938, as the Nazis came to power, Gernreich, a Jew, fled from Vienna at the age of 16. He made his way to Los Angeles, where he began his remarkable career in clothing design. During the 1950s, Gernreich designed costumes for movie stars such as Lana Turner and Eva Marie Saint. He was also an avid gay rights activist, a cofounder of the Los Angeles chapter of the Mattachine Society, which was established in 1951 to educate the public about...
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1960's Fashion Primary Sources
The 1960's: Primary Sources
