Which fashion week designers featured space age clothing in their shows?”
In Paris, streetwear takes cue from space age PARIS – A retro space age mood permeated Paris’ ready-to-wear shows on Thursday, as Balenciaga and emerging Indian madcap Manish Arora sent out looks perfect for a stewardess on an intergalactic fight. Balenciaga’s Nicolas Ghesquiere, who dusted off the storied Paris label and turned it into one of fashion’s hottest properties, continued to push the envelope, churning out yet another breathtaking collection, this time made up of short, 1960s-inspired skirtsuits and patchwork vests imbued with sci-fi flavor. Arora plucked Art Deco motifs out of the 1920s and projected them into a distant future, delivering 22nd century flapper dresses covered in citrus toned sequins and space flight attendants’ uniforms with sculptural shoulders and protruding hips. For the finale, three models wore what looked like oversized headphones with glowing plastic tassels protuding from the sides that rotated as they walked. Bizarre headgear was also de rigeur at t
