including a topless swimsuit — designed by her friend Rudi Gernreich — that scandalized the fashion world and launched her to global fame, died Aug. 10 at her home in Beverly Hills ...

Moffitt caused a fashion sensation in 1964 when she posed ... with each outfit a new act or a new character,” Moffitt wrote in “The Rudi Gernreich Book,” which she and Claxton released ...