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SUMMARY:2024 Karmiole Fellow Lecture: Fashioning Liberation: Rudi Gernreich
	 and the Counterculture
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DESCRIPTION:Join UCLA Library for a presentation from writer\, historian\, 
	podcast host and 2024 Karmiole Fellow Ben Miller. This event will feature 
	materials from Library Special Collections' fashion and textile collection
	s.\n\nFashion designer\, gay rights pioneer\, dancer\, and refugee: Rudi G
	ernreich lived a fascinating life that is a metonym for the career of the 
	counterculture: a window into the promises\, the pitfalls\, the successes 
	and the failures of liberation.\n\nGernreich was born in the Jewish bourge
	oisie of Red Vienna and raised in the heady progressivism of German life-r
	eform movements that promised to free the body and spirit from the crushin
	g forces of getting and spending. Gernreich fled Fascist Austria with his 
	mother and settled in Los Angeles\, where he joined an influential modern 
	dance company before (debatably) co-founding the gay rights movement in th
	e United States. He went on to a prominent career in the revolutionary spa
	ce age of fashion\, threatened his own career with political protest in th
	e late 1960s and spent his final years delivering home-cooked organic soup
	 in his white Bentley to private clients in Beverly Hills.\n\nGernreich’s 
	fashion career changed how people dressed and how they thought about their
	 bodies: as well as the topless monokini bathing suit\, his creations incl
	uded the first transparent bra\, the first see-through chiffon blouse\, so
	me of the first vinyl and plastic clothes and gender-neutral clothing. But
	 Gernreich was not a pure provocateur\, nor someone who abandoned youthful
	 convictions in search of fame and fortune. His life helps us understand h
	ow and where and for whom liberation succeeded\, where and for whom it fai
	led\, and how it was commercialized\, institutionalized and sold for profi
	t.\n\nThis talk is open to the public with no RSVP required.\n\nEvent Webs
	ite: https://www.library.ucla.edu/visit/events-exhibitions/2024-karmiole-f
	ellow-lecture-fashioning-liberation-rudi-gernreich-and-the-counterculture-
	09-24-24/\n\nSource: https://community.ucla.edu/event/016234d1-811c-4516-9
	b7f-f59b72124d71
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