Word: gernreich
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...thing." The situation has traditional designers up tight. Old standard setters, like Balenciaga, have retired. Others, like Saint Laurent, reach for youth by focusing increasingly on less expensive ready-to-wear clothes. At 46, fatigued by the efforts that have kept him far ahead of other designers, Rudi Gernreich last week announced that he was taking a year off in order to refresh himself. Says Gernreich, who championed the new attitude all along: "I feel that a woman must buy the basics from a boutique or designer, and then be able to do what she wants with scarves and chains...
Eyebrow Plucking. Leader of the bareness-now, right now, school is still Rudi Gernreich, whose 1964 topless set off the exposure explosion. In his 1968 collection, he compromises slightly by using see-through vinyl to hold together the tops and bottoms of his bathing suits. He says: "Only the areas that must be covered are covered-with wool knit." But at least he concedes that coverable areas exist, which for Gernreich is something...
...Gernreich's plastic suit is offensive. Those black patches look like they were painted on by a movie censor...
Dulled Senses. Such is the mood for nude that Rudi Gernreich, whose chiffon see-through blouse was greeted by cries of outrage in 1964, is confidently planning to try it again this fall, attaching it to tweed skirts. "This time," predicts Gernreich, "it will be received without shock. The bare-bosom look certainly isn't totally accepted yet, but in another five years it will...
...Boris Chaliapin has done well with his portrait of Rudi Gernreich, but what are the two things behind him? Refugees from Star Trek maybe? HARRY PRESTON Detroit...