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How Rudi Gernreich, Fashion’s Utopian Prophet (And Inventor of the Thong), Saw the Future

By: Mark Rozzo   |   Vanity Fair   |   May 2023
In the 1960s, Léon Bing modeled the forward-thinking designs of the Austrian-born American designer on magazine covers and in film. Thirty-four years after Gernreich’s death, she explains why his work has retained its relevance.