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THE RUDI GERNREICH BOOK |
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1955, the five-button swimsuit, style 6001, probably the most copied swimsuit in history. (Photograph © William Claxton) The Circle in the Square Once in Vienna, a little boy went to kindergarten where his teacher told the class to take a sheet of paper and draw a square and inside the square to draw a circle. The boy took his pencil and drew an enormous circle that just touched the edge of the paper all the way around. When he was finished, he proudly ran to the teacher. She looked at his work and said, "But Rudi, you have failed. You didn't follow my direction." And he replied,, "Yes, but isn't it beautiful?" Years later and on the other side of the world, a little black-haired four-year-old girl put on her older sister's too-big shoes, a long pink dress, and a dark blue cape. She then went clomping through the neighborhood shouting to anyone who would listen, "I'm Snow White!" Most of this book is a fond pictorial memory of what happened when those two people met.
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