It skyrocketed during the space age and continues to circulate through today’s luxury brands including Fendi, Dior, Prada, Moschino, and Ana Sui and in the celebrity style circle. Also among the bunch was Giancarlo Zannata, the designer who championed the ‘Moon Boot’ modeled after the astronautic technologies featured on the Apollo 11 space suits, Zannata turned the uniform piece into a fashionable yet utilitarian shoe for the slopes. Cardin’s designs were voguish space uniforms that centered around mini-length cuts compromised by thigh high go-go boots and gloves and made of vinyl and metallic fabrics Rabanne’s chain mail dresses took on many forms from hooded and bell-sleeved to classic slip silhouettes and even bulbous, dimensional creations and and Courrèges’ constructed hemlines merged with his favor for unconventional materials like PVC (polyvinyl chloride), plastic, and metals.
Yet the bigger picture captured an avant-garde movement that was literally out of this world.Ī circle of designers including Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, André Courrèges pioneered fashion’s spacial looks and heavily influenced the way fashion wrapped itself around the world’s latest discoveries. This facet could been found in the crevices of space fashion, particularly when it came to unconventional materials and metallic aesthetics. At the time, astronauts suits were heavy and bulky, built with safety precautions and space utilities in mind. Fashion’s first space epiphany was a mirror of the exploratory attitude the 20th century movement.
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