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THE RUDI GERNREICH BOOK |
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Early 1950s, wool sarong skirt, (photograph © Christa) Through his designs, Gernreich said a lot of things that were not confined to fashion: that women's bodies deserve to be free of the constraints that have kept them submissive to men; that women's clothes and men's clothes could be interchangeable, thus making the two sexes truly equal; that utilitar· ian uniforms would take our minds off how we look so we could concentrate on how we act; that fashion isn't a tragedy-it's entertainment; that nudity is no longer equated with morality; that how we dress is inextricably linked to how we live; that wit and humor will always have the last laugh on the superserious, sometimes supercilious world of fashion.
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