Monokini from Peggy Mofitt rises for sale in Kerry Taylor auctions

London – Kerry Taylor Auctions lands in the United States with a spray, where the late Mofitt’s Risqué Monokini sells, and dozens of other body designs that Rudi Genreich did, during direct online events that will be held from 8 to 22 May.

The direct auction will be held on May 21 at the Mana Center for Contemporary Arts in Jersey City, New Jersey, where Taylor opened its first American hall. London -based Taylor, a specialist in ancient and contemporary fashion as well as the auctions of the individual owner, said that the new area was coming long ago.

All of them were ready to open in 2020, but Covid-19 was late. “I have a lot of museum buyers and a private college in America, and I feel that the sky is the maximum. It is a big country, and during and after World War II did not suffer. Women who lunch still go to Paris and buy high -end fashion,” Taylor said in an interview.

Instead of New York, she chose the prices, the Mana Building, which is located in 888 Newark Avenue and Houses Artist Studios, and exhibition spaces and photography archives.

“It is not completely New York, but I am sure people will remain to see us,” said Taylor, who is in the process of assembling an American team and working with trainees in Movit.

One of the old warriors in Sotheby, who opened her home at auction in 2003, Taylor is working on her way around the world to seek old, European, Asian and Islamic fashion.

After Britain’s exit from the European Union, when the trade between the United Kingdom and Europe became difficult, the Paris showroom opened in cooperation with the Maurice auction and said that the United States was a next natural step.

Taylor’s recent auctions for the “Empire of Fashion: The Barreto Lancaster Collection of Napoleonic & Regency Dress” and “Martin Mariela: The Early Lens, 1988-1994”, “Jean-Paullier: The Haute: Couture Collection-THE MOUNA AYOUB.

Taylor admits that she “cannot resist a group, and this group has in particular seized its imagination. Taylor works with Ibn Movit, Christopher Klaston, to sell.

Taylor said, “Baiji was a performance artist -” I performed clothes, “she was saying – and she was obsessed with crazy clothes and the total appearance, whether it means wearing clothes like peacock or giraffe,” adding that Movit was wearing her clothes that were well arrested in the 1980s.

Movit, who died last August at the age of 86, always liked to wear clothes. She is a representative of Los Angeles and coaches, she met Generrich for the first time when she was in high school, in 1954, and she worked at Jax clothes boutique in Beverly Hills.

The two will continue to become one of the most famous double fashion works. Movit, with her distinguished designer in Vidal Sasson and Eye Harlekin’s eye makeup, was Moses and a model for the designer born in the Austrians, who is famous for his provocative clothes.

They topped the headlines of international newspapers when I designed Monokini designer in 1964, with Women’s Daily Daily Image published. This design, which aims to symbolize women’s freedom, has caused immediate anger.

Lord & Taylor canceled its order, while other stores that chose to carry Monokini received bombs threats. The style was condemned by the Vatican, the Kremlin, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece governments.

At least two American women were arrested for wearing, but Movit has always defended swimwear, one of the many Girnric designs that William Kalalston, Movit’s pair. Monokini is the number 11 in sale with an estimate of $ 6000 to $ 10,000.

Girnich loved the form of the female and was a pioneer in the body. His mission was to liberate women from the cumer and the lesson, creating tuberculosis coherent dresses and unorganized swimming that followed the natural lines of the body.

Movit, designed similar to New York, London and Paris and appeared in “Blow-up” fashion films (1962) and “Who are you, Polly Mago” (1966), have more than 300 pieces, many of allocated color collections that have never been produced.

Taylor said, I loved them and never stopped wearing it.

While the Gernreich designs are a large part of the sale, there are also creations by Pierre Cardin, Givenchy, Comme Des Garçons, a brand with which Moffitt cooperated in its subsequent years.

Taylor, who described Movit as “the really great American fashion icon”, said that the clothes are “enjoyable and can be worn now like the day when it was made, and it was carefully taken care of during her life. The group represents a life -long love relationship with fashion and (Generrich) in particular.”

In 2013, the Movit Times of London told the fact that she was still wearing Girnric’s clothes after 50 years, “a good recommendation for someone’s talents like any. The times have changed, but his clothes are still silent about the way we live today.”

The 282-LOT group will be divided into an online auction from 8 to 22 May and Live. Both sales will be open to public viewing from 18 to 20 May at Kerry Taylor New Jersey Salemum auctions.

Estimates range from about $ 250 for the Gernreich wool dress to AA Black Jersey Evening Dress by Gearnreich for Bill Cunningham.