Back in the 1950s, they helped unlock the closet

Rudi Gernreich fled pre-Holocaust Austria only to face homophobia in the United States. The Jewish fashion designer – who lost virtually all of his family at Auschwitz – made his name with his bold bathing suit couture.

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