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Spacewear - Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion (Hardcover)
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Spacewear - Weightlessness and the Final Frontier of Fashion (Hardcover)
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Today, we are living in the New Space Age, where mass commercial
space travel is almost within our grasp. This otherworldly
possibility has opened up new cultural images of space, both real
and fictional, and has caused fashion design and spacesuit
engineering to intersect in new, exciting ways. Spacewear traverses
this uncharted territory by exploring the changing imagination of
space in fashion-and fashion in space-from the first Space Age to
the 21st century. Exploring how space travel has stylistically and
technologically framed fashion design on earth and how we need to
revisit established design practices for the weightless
environment, Spacewear connects the catwalk and the space station.
This book draws together speculative fantasies in sci-fi films such
as Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey, with the engineered
spacesuits Biosuit, and the NASA Z-2 and with catwalk
interpretations by the likes of Alexander McQueen, Hussein
Chalayan, Andre Courreges, and Iris van Herpen. While the
development of commercial space agencies has led to new concerns
for style in garments for outer space that re-think fundamental
design principles such as drape, high fashion has experimented with
new possibilities for weightlessness that extend far beyond the
1960s vision of Space Age metallic fabrics and helmet-style
headwear. Brownie takes the reader on a fascinating journey from
fantasy to function and to form, deepening our understanding of
this new category of fashion that is prompting new approaches to
garment design and construction both on earth and in outer space.
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