No designer working today appears more consistently influenced by otherworldly shapes and ideas than Iris van Herpen. Iris van Herpen Iris van Herpen’s Haute Couture show in 2019 was filled extraterrestrial-looking creations. Credit: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Models were studded with protruding metal plugs, and neon lights radiated off of white PVC as their entire bodies became circuit boards. Givenchy The Givenchy Fall-Winter 1999-2000 collection spoke to a certain anxiety about the new millennium. Credit: Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Getty Imagesīut not everyone felt optimistic about our fast-approaching future. Alexander McQueen’s 1999-2000 Fall-Winter collection for Givenchy was filled with “curiosity, and fear, of the future,” as one Vogue runway review from 1999 put it. Much of Mugler’s collections throughout the ’80s involved space-age vixens wearing big, boxy shoulder pads shrouded in gold or silver lamé. Thierry Mugler Thierry Mugler took a more ethereal approach to cosmic style and made feminine gowns fit for a space princess. Credit: Daniel Simon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty ImagesĪt Paris Fashion Week 1986, the Fall-Winter collection by French label Thierry Mugler was brimming with embellished star motifs and decorative ear cuffs that stood up like antennae.
Three decades later, Courrèges was still sending space-inspired looks down the runway, as pictured here at an April 1993 show in Kyoto, Japan. His interest in intergalactic glamour only grew from there. The late designer used high-shine PVC to construct stiff A-line skirts that held their own when twisted and contorted in fashion shoots. His futuristic designs have been worn by the likes of ’60s style iconMia Farrow and The Beatles.Īndrè Courregès A trained civil engineer, André Courrèges used his mathematical know-how when constructing garments. Credit: Kurita Kaku/Gamma-Rapho/Getty ImagesĪndré Courrèges released his Moon Girl collection, including white go-go boots and tall, spherical hats, in the spring of 1964. Cardin, who died in December 2020, was a pioneer of space-age fashion, crafting sharp, modernist silhouettes from shimmering lamé fabric. The early work of Italian designer Pierre Cardin, pictured here at Paris Fashion Week in 1968, was a cascade of silver vinyl. Pierre Cardin Pierre Cardin helped spearhead the space-age aesthetic with an array of ensembles in silver vinyl. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Now as a new space race unfolds, this time with a human mission to Mars on the horizon, we take a look back at fashion’s enduring love affair with outer space, in which art imitates life forms - whether alien or astronaut - and celestial bodies alike. But even decades after we first set foot on the moon, the cosmos has remained a mainstay of inspiration for a variety of fashion houses. Whether it was a chain-mail shift dress, a bulbous helmet or a pair of stark white boots, the sartorial legacy of the ’60s and ’70s was defined by a space-race exuberance. For fashion designers Paco Rabanne, Pierre Cardin and Thierry Mugler, it became the rocket that launched a thousand looks, as they centered whole collections around an intergalactic vision of the future. The success of the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 only whetted appetites further.
60S SPACE FASHION TV
Kennedy’s vision of man reaching the moon soon spawned a throng of TV shows and films - including cartoon sitcom “The Jetsons” and the “Star Trek” franchise - all of which looked to cater to America’s new found interest in space travel. The anticipation of this next stage of humanity left an indelible impression on culture, too. The 1960s space race was more than a measure of scientific progress.
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