Spacewear fashion show: looking fly in zero-g
A spacewear fashion show featuring clothing designed for travel in weightless conditions was held at the University of Tokyo’s Hongo campus on November 2.
The show was held by Rocketplane Kistler — a US company that plans to begin offering space tours in two years — and a group of Japanese fashion designers, as part of the Hyper Space Couture Design Contest. Winners of the contest, which is organized by Tokyo-based fashion designer Eri Matsui with the support of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and many others, will help design the clothes for use on Rocketplane’s space tourism flights set to begin in 2008.
The 11 garments appearing in the show were selected from over 880 designs submitted by college students. The clothes incorporate a variety of features designed for zero gravity, such as ruffles that expand under weightless conditions or small air-jet propulsion systems in the sleeves to help you change direction while floating.
[Source: Yomiuri Shimbun]
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[…] We’re not really sure which is worse, that the future has already reached Japan, or that Japan has already out-designed everyone. Apparently yesterday there was a “spacewear fashion show” at the University of Tokyo’s Hongo campus. A joint venture between Rocketplane Kistler, an American space tour company, and a group of Japanese fashion designers came together to create the “Hyper Space Couture Design Contest.” The clothes selected will be used for Rocketplane’s flights, which are slated to begin in 2008. While we don’t exactly know what “spacewear” means, apparently one of the requirements is to be able to pack form and function into a zero-g outfit, “such as ruffles that expand under weightless conditions or small air-jet propulsions systems in the sleeves to help you change direction while floating.” We still think that any of these outfits could be improved with a little Engadget logo stitched somewhere on there, but hey, we’ll still take some small air-jet propulsion systems on our terrestrial outfits. Source Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
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the design are very unusual and i would probably never wear something like that but i spose if it is suited to that kind of travel
if you l;ike that stuff
they look like somthing out of doctor who
these dresses are’nt really pret-a-porter, are’nt they?