late night: Space Age Fashion

"Space fever" invaded the fashion world in the first decade of space exploration. Designers such as Paco Rabane, André Courrèges, Pierre Cardin took inspiration from space suits, trying to imagine how we'd be dressed today... Needless to say, they were pretty far out!

Minimalist, futuristic, geometric & androgynous, is what qualifies best Space Age fashion. They seemed to "build" their dresses rather than designing them. The materials usually included plastic, metal & paper.



Lots of footage of Space age fashion can be found on youtube thanks to user "cosmocorps2000". He always manages to perfectly suit the images with the music. In the video below, is a glance at André Courrèges fashion back in 1968. Music is by Keith Droste "When you come around" (1970). Enjoy the trip!

video of the day: iPhone in space.

After months of research and preparation, a father and son from New York
teamed up to send an iPhone to space. Their project "the Brooklyn Space Program"
consisted of a take-out container holding an HD camera and an iPhone (used as a
tracking device thanks to gps coordinates) attached to a heavy duty latex balloon.
The mission : film the blackness of space and retrieve the container after the
balloon bursts and falls back to earth. A difficult task considering the high winds,
freezing temperatures, high speeds and the possibility of it landing in the water.
Check out the result in this video.