THEn times of climate crisis and environmental emergency, the time may have come to look for a new home. On a other planet. Never before have designers looked beyond the atmosphere this season, finding inspiration in unknown worlds and distant lands, bringing mysterious beings and conceptual clothes back to Earth (and onto the catwalk). A extraterrestrial universe in which to get lost and find yourself, starting with the Coperni bag made with real meteorites. For truly spatial fashion.
Meteorite by hand with the Coperni bag
The maison led by Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant is used to amaze, between robot dogs and spray suits. During the show dedicated to the Fall Winter 2023/24 season, Coperni however, it has unveiled an unprecedented accessory. The latest iteration of the most famous accessory of him has become an exhibit of astronomy. The Coperni bag Meteorite Swipe Bag it is in fact made of gray stone derived from moon rock arrived on Earth about 55 thousand years ago and was found in 1968 in the south of France. The most extraterrestrial It Bag ever is created made to order starting from finds of lunar fragments unearthed in various parts of the world, with a six-week waiting time to receive it and a cost of 40 thousand euros. The price to pay for wearing a real wedge of the moon.
Alien walkways
One world is not enough. This season, designers and maisons have gone beyond terrestrial limits, indulging an unstoppable desire for escapism and exploration. Off White landed on Mars, among red sand, light blue stones and mirrored surfaces, closely followed by Eastpakwhich for its latest campaign Built To Resist imagined a new life on the red planet (in 100 years).
The setting of the Off-White Fall Winter 2023/24 fashion show inspired by Mars
Mysterious creatures made their debut on the catwalk, unidentified beings capable of enchanting and disturbing. Master of volumes and sculptural cuts, Rick Owens he imagined an army of women with magnetic eyes who seem to have just stepped off their spaceship (it is not known with what intent). Diesel evokes extraterrestrials with metallic and iridescent skin, while futurism follows JW Anderson it is made of bell-shaped sheath dresses in which to mirror oneself.
Extraterrestrial inspiration on the catwalk. From left: Rick Owens FW23/24, Diesel and JW Anderson SS23
Warriors in a dystopian future
When it’s not about beings from unknown universes, fashion loves to shape creatures post apocalypticsurvived events worthy of The Last of Us or protagonists of realities seen in Dunes or The Mandalorian. Armored Amazon women – signed Paco Rabanne or Louis Vuitton – ready for anything, in high performance outfits between catsuit second-skin and stellar prints, from Burberry to Maisie Wilen.
The high neck catsuit with built-in hood and space print signed Maisie Wilen Spring Summer 2023
Dresses with a very close-fitting silhouette, latex, studs and spikes, details with an effect distressed they tell of a warlike and far from rosy future, in which fashion becomes a uniform of struggle to save the planet. Or to face a journey through atmospheres.
To infinity and beyond.
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