- Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 163 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Summary
- "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, André Courréges, 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."--Page 4 of cover.
- Uniform Title
- Spacewear (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Spacewear (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-159) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Contents
- Space style -- Weightlessness on (and above) the catwalk -- Commercial spacewear -- The clothed body in microgravity -- Conclusion: designing post-gravity fashion.
- LCCN
- 10.5040/9781350000353
- OCLC
- ssj0002514345
- Author
Brownie, Barbara.
- Title
Spacewear [electronic resource] : weightlessness and the final frontier of fashion / Barbara Brownie.
- Imprint
London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-159) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also available in print.
- Note
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Fashion - Other
Fashion Design
Technical Design (Fashion)
- Other Form:
Print version: (OCoLC)1041762549 1
- Other Standard Identifier
10.5040/9781350000353 doi