HaptiHug – affective garment hugs you

HaptiHug – affective garment hugs you
This is a really interesting development in the remote controlling of garments which could have implications for long distance or long time based wearers.

Techno Textiles

These books are also really good discussions on textile innovations, the first techno textiles book was published in 1999 telling us that we are well down the road to exploring the technical issues surrounding technical textiles.



These two books give great areas of new innovative fashion soloutions for space....

Extreme textiles

I have added this book because it is a really interesting starting point for exciting and relevant textiles that could be translated into space-couture. Grab yourself a copy and explore.....

Why are the heroines wearing very little clothes, do they not feel the cold ?

I am sure that it is because women are stronger than men and don't need to be protected from the rigours of space.....or is it because most of the science fiction audience are men?  hmm no flames please as next we will be looking at how men are portrayed as militaristic and all conquering...another unlikely scenario...

Space hostesses...

"2001 a space oddessy" 1968

"2001 a space oddessy" 1968

"The fifth element" designer Jean Paul Gaultier 1997

Both films look forward into the future and start to look at what workers in space, looking after the tourists, might wear. Again we get the impression that skin tight or very tailored is the way to go...

Hmm I wonder which hostess I would like to be looked after?

Comments below...

And here is another...

Oh I lost my heart to a starship trooper ....or in this case was it the hot gossip girls in the cat suits and silver tabard dresses.....
Top of the pops in the late 70s (this is 1978) was not only on the pulse with regards to music, but fashion as well....
Play it again girls......oh and I think that there are some boys as well...

Some music appropriate for space couture

MMM
I just love these skin tight silver cat suits.
In 1979 did we really think they were: A.. trendy and B...what we would all wear in space?
Oh go on play it again! Ladies and Gentlemen..... I give you.....Sheila B Devotion and Spacer from 1979

Richard Hayman the look of love Space age fashion

A strange take on the "beautiful woman murders a man in a suit" genre but the space age fashions are the star....

Underwater Fashion photography

I was having a very interesting talk to the designer of the last three star wars film costumes and the discussion turned to whether underwater fashion would give some clues as to how space fashion might function....
So I went off to You tube and started to look at underwater fashion....
Here are some examples:

Whilst the subject matter can be a bit suspect ( you might wish to look on YouTube at underwater photography!) I think that it starts us down the road to try to start to understand about the way fabric moves under non standard conditions.