Rudi Gernreich

Rudi Gernreich (8 August 1922-21 April 1985) was a fashion designer and gay activist. Born in Vienna, Austria fled at the age of 16 due to Nazism. He came to the United States, the settlement in Los Angeles, California. For a while, he had a career as a dancer, performing with the Lester Horton company around 1945.
She moved in fashion design through fabric design, and then worked closely with the model Peggy Moffitt and the photographer William Claxton, pushing the limits of "futuristic look" in clothing more than three decades. An exhibition of his work at the Phoenix Art Museum in 2003 hailed as "one of the most original and controversial prophetic American designers of the 1950's, 60's and 70's."

He is perhaps best known for inventing the first topless swimsuit or monokini, as well as pubikini (a bikini with a window in the front to reveal the pubic hair of women) and then the thong swimsuit. He is also known as the first designer to use vinyl records and plastic on clothing, and he designed the Moonbase Alpha uniforms in the television series Space: 1999.
He also designed Warner's "1972" No-Bra Bra, "which was made of pure elastic fabric; had no wires or metal clips, and it was throwing in the head. Was given to women in fashion something he could afford bra of manufacturers, but was designed for women who had stopped buying products from the industry. Like most of the creations Gernreich, he created a brief stir in silence and then disappeared.