INSPIRATION Rudi Gernreich 1971… Agent Provocateur SS||2013

This wonderful cut-out swimsuit created by Austrian-born American fashion designer Rudi Gernreich in 1971 and photographed by William Claxton on sixties super-model Peggy Moffit [left]… might have been more than just an inspiration for the 'Mazzy" bathing suit by Agent Provocateur for SS||2013 [right]. Even if it is meant  as a homage, still,  in my opinion an homage is somehow copying in a more polite way.