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The Four Styles You'll Wear in the Future, According to Science Fiction
One of the most terrifying parts of any science fiction movie or TV show are the inevitable Future Jumpsuits that everyone seems to wear because somehow every aspect of civilization has advanced except clothing technology. Whether you're in Battlestar Galactica's space fatigues, Star Trek's onesie uniforms, or whatever the hell you call that crap Jean-Paul Gaultier forced upon the hapless actors in The Fifth Element, it still boils down to one thing: The many moods of the jumpsuit. Below, we explore four of the most popular jumpsuits in science fiction for your sartorial edification. More »
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Rayon and polyester better step aside. There's a new synthetic fabric in town, and it's softer, lighter, and more flexible than any of its predecessors. Designers Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel collaborated to create furore, a porous material reminiscent of expanded metal. It comes long and bushy or short and smooth, and can be dyed a variety of different colors. What does this mean for the future of fashion? For one thing, it means you can now dress like a furry alien mermaid without having to hunt down, kill, and skin a furry alien mermaid.
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Furore, a Fur Substitute, is Next-Gen Polyester
Rayon and polyester better step aside. There's a new synthetic fabric in town, and it's softer, lighter, and more flexible than any of its predecessors. Designers Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel collaborated to create furore, a porous material reminiscent of expanded metal. It comes long and bushy or short and smooth, and can be dyed a variety of different colors. What does this mean for the future of fashion? For one thing, it means you can now dress like a furry alien mermaid without having to hunt down, kill, and skin a furry alien mermaid.
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Upskirt: Work Wear of the Future?
In 1970, Sylvia Anderson appeared on the Brit chat show "Tomorrow Today" to promote UFO, the new, live-action science-fiction television series produced by herself and husband, Gerry (also the masterminds behind the fabulous Thunderbirds Are GO). Anderson showed a film clip of model Antonia Ellis bopping around London in a women's Moonbase uniform from the series. According to Anderson, the silver micro-mini was perfect workaday wear for the earthbound career girls of the future—after all, "there's nothing to crease, nothing to iron, and everything is replaceable." Just pray you don't have to bend over to pick up a paperclip. Fans of Zolar X might recognize the haircut.
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Cylons Conquer The Fashion World
For once, these fashion models don't just look like robots by accident. The make-up artist for yesterday's Marios Schwab fashion show in London modeled the models' faces on "Battlestar Galactica android aliens." That included bleaching the eyebrows, using pale foundation, and putting reflective gloss on eyelids, says artist Val Garland with Revlon. "It's all about a very blank face," she added. Click through for full-body pics of Cylons on the catwalk. More »
retro futurism
In The 1960s You Could Wear an Electric Dress
In 1967, designer Diana Dew's light-up mini-dresses and pants pulsed to the music at the hippest discotheques. Still in her early 20s, Dew invented a rechargeable battery pack that powered what Time magazine called "pliable plastic lamps" sewn onto dresses and pants. More »
Wear a Zeppelin on Your Head
The folks at BoingBoing have spotted the best new fashion of the season: a top hat with a Zeppelin! The main body of the hat is painted to look like sky, and a plush Zeppelin attached to the hat appears to be sailing around it. If only it weren't too late for Hanukkah, I'd be asking for this! [BoingBoing]
retro futurism
Atomic-Powered Hats of the Future
OK, it's not really a hat, just a late-1960s "differential multidetector" that used radioisotopes to diagnose (and maybe cause a few) brain tumors. But I swear the eccentric hat junkie Isabella Blow once wore something exactly like it to Ascot.From The Atom at Work: How Nuclear Power Can Benefit Man (1968), by C.B. Colby.
archaeology
The Truth About Prehistoric Potatoes and Mini Skirts
Our ancestors loved to dress up nice and go out for tubers, according to two new studies of ancient human living areas. So thousands of years ago we weren't going all 2001, with guys in ratty cloaks grunting. In fact, the prehistoric world wasn't full of guys with spears hunting meat at all, but instead lots of people with spoons digging up yummy potatoes. They even dug for tubers when meat and veggies above ground were plentiful. Plus, according to a recent AP story, they all looked great and were incredibly fashionable. More »
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In The Future of Star Trek, Everyone Wears Trench Coats
Anticipation for JJ Abrams' movie relaunch of the Star Trek franchise continues to drive internet fandom to new heights of pointless anticipation. Even as 36-year-old Winona Ryder is announced to play the mother of 30-year-old Zachary Quinto in the movie, moviesite IESB.net reports from the movie's second day of shooting with twenty photos of extras in trench coats, because apparently you can almost see costumes underneath the coats in some shots.Next week: Expect to find out what Abrams had for breakfast one morning, just in case it gives a clue towards what the Klingons will look like. Image courtesy of IESB.
Star Trek Fashion Show [IESB.net]
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Fashionable Shoes For Space Travel
An Italian company called Geox is marketing shoes and outerwear that are packed with patented technologies invented for use by astronauts in space. A semi-permeable membrane lines each shoe and jacket. The membrane is riddled with micro-pores big enough to vent sweat, but small enough to prevent water from getting into the shoe. Geox's shoes are popular with celebs like Angelina Jolie and the Pope, and Geox chairman Mario Moretti Polegato enlightens us as to why:The name 'Geox' [is] from the Greek word geo for 'earth,' and 'x,' the letter symbolizing technology. Wearing these shoes makes you feel you are walking barefoot on earth and without the stink.The best part? There are thigh-high suede boots fitted out with this space-age micro-pore crap. I hope the boys up in the International Space Station are strutting around in those.
Space-age shoewear [via The Manila Standard] More »
the avengers
Must See: The Avengers
Must-see TV shows are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.Title: The Avengers
Date: 1961-1969
Vitals: John Steed is a bowler-wearing secret agent who doesn't seem to have any bosses. He, and a rotating cast of sidekicks, go around defeating evil conspiracies and occasionally battling the Cybernauts, who are pretty much what they sound like. More »
