Peggy Moffitt

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Peggy Moffitt (* 14. May 1940 in Los Angeles , California , United States as Margaret Anne Moffitt ) is an American model , particularly in the 1960s through its collaboration with fashion designer Rudi Gernreich and her husband, photographer William Claxton , got known.

Life

Moffit was born in 1940 as the daughter of screenwriter Jack Moffitt (1901–1969). From the mid-1950s she appeared in small extras in films such as Man is Never Too Young (1955), Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) or The Birds and the Bees (1956).

Moffitt met photographer William Claxton in the late 1950s , with whom she was married from 1958 until his death in 2008. The son Christopher Claxton (* 1973) was born from the marriage.

She also got to know Gernreich through Claxton, with whom she repeatedly worked in the following years. Her styling was characterized by a self-designed, often mask-like make-up and the asymmetrical five-point-cut hairstyle going back to Vidal Sassoon . In 1964, photos, led the Moffitt with Gern Empire topless -Badekleidung monokini showed international headlines.

In 1991 she and her husband published a book about Gernreich's work.

reception

The 2006 debut album Model for a Revolution by the Chicago band The Handcuffs contained the song Peggy Moffitt and featured photos of the model on the cover of the album.

The industrial musician Boyd Rice released the single Going Steady With Peggy Moffitt together with Giddle Partridge in 2008 .

In 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) showed the exhibition The Total Look: the Creative Collaboration Between Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt and William Claxton , which was primarily dedicated to the creative collaboration between designer, photographer and model. Moffitt and her son Christopher helped create the exhibition as consultants.

literature

  • Peggy Moffitt, William Claxton: The Rudy Gernreich Book. Rizzoli International Publications, 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About Rudi Gernreich at steirischerbst.at, accessed on September 21, 2012
  2. ↑ Peggy Moffitt in Der Spiegel 24/1964
  3. ↑ One man's truth is another’s in Herald & Review of May 5, 2006
  4. ^ The Total Look: the Creative Collaboration Between Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt and William Claxton at moca.org, accessed on September 21, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Moffitt, Peggy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moffitt, Margaret Anne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American model
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States