Peggy Moffitt

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

Life

Moffit was born in 1940 as the daughter of screenwriter Jack Moffitt ( 1901-1969 ). From the mid- 1950s, she appeared in small roles in such films as extras You're never too young ( 1955), Meet Me in Las Vegas ( 1956) or The Birds and the Bees (1956 ) on.

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

About Claxton, they also got to know Gernreich, with whom she worked repeatedly in the following years. Your styling was marked by her own design, often mask-like make-up and going back to Vidal Sassoon asymmetric five- point cut hairstyle. In 1964, led photos showing Moffitt with Gern Empire topless swimwear monokini to international headlines.

In 1991 she published a book about her husband 's work -be empire.

Reception

The debut album Model for a Revolution of the Chicago band The Handcuffs from 2006 contained the song Peggy Moffitt and showed photos of the models on the cover of the album.

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

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ( MOCA ) showed in 2012 the exhibition The Total Look: the Creative Collaboration Between Rudi Gernreich, Peggy Moffitt and William Claxton, who devoted himself to the creative collaboration between designer, photographer and model. Moffitt and her son Christopher worked on the development of the exhibit with as a consultant.