Fashion space helmets

Although we can breath the atmosphere on earth, it did not pass the fashion designers attention, that the space helmet, could be used as a fashion accessory inspiration.

Walter van Beirendonck, space influences fashion

Walter van Bierendonck is a belgian designer who utilises space in his influences and research, ending up with a very personal collection of out of this world experiences. a great example of this is the collection from 1999 entitled "Alien Spirits"

Dava Newman from MIT talks about the "Bio Suit"

Some really interesting insights into what we might be wearing in space. Dava Newman is an engineer working with NASA at MIT in America.
Is this fashion?
Possibly but it is definitely looking at materials and technologies that could influence how we might design fashion for space.

imaginary-man

I met Esther at a fashion conference in London in September and I think that if you have visited my blog you may be very interested in visiting hers

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

Space Couture and Space Suits

What is the difference?
Well a space suit will protect your body from disintegrating in the hard vacuum of space ( not a pretty sight I understand).
Space couture or space fashion is something that you wear in a controlled environment (say an 8 star or should that be an unimaginably big number of stars? space hotel) and you want to look as good as the enormous amount of money you have spent getting there.
So as this blog  and my research develops maybe we will be able to delve into the magic of smart materials, the comfort of classic fibres such as cashmere, and the amazing opportunities for new and challenging silhouettes that respond to light, radiation, minmal or no gravity and the thoughts of the human inhabiting them.

Japanese space fashion show

News report on Japanese space fashion show