![]() “The Matrix” movie and its associated fashions became synonymous with many of these escapist rebrandings of the original space age.įast forward to today, youth are feeling more stressful effects of election chaos, climate change, wildfires, gun violence, and uncertainty than ever before. The looming “Y2K”, hackers, machinery, and computers fueled fashions reflecting a similar mindset through steampunk and cyberpunk reminiscent styles. In this new era, instead of with space travel, anxious excitement and fears about new technology became associated with the budding internet. Where this style had only ever been worn through Americans’ television screens by Star Trek-esque sci-fi characters, Quant brought the rebellious, liberating, seductive allure of space into the modern woman’s wardrobe.Īfter this initial craze of “retrofuturism”, it had a quick turnaround time into the next era of 1990’s retrofuturism. She will forever be known as one of the creators of the miniskirt. Fashion in this case also served as a vessel for American expansionism: everyone sought to display their readiness for the new age through futuristic clothes, so competitors would look on to Americans and think… are we prepared enough? ![]() Society needed a wardrobe to equip a new generation of dreamers. Many dreamed of what the years ahead would look like- will we live on a new planet? Will we take rocketships as casually as we take commercial airplanes? To add on to this excitement, UFO sightings were the talk of the town inspiring even more questions about how the martian extraterrestrials dressed. What does this mean for fashion, culture, and the future? Today, our society is gearing up for another revival of such retrofuturism. When the famous “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” was taken in 1969, no one could have predicted the cultural fever that the success of Apollo 11 would propel: from fashion, cars, interior design, to music-the 1960’s-70’s “Space Age” was everywhere.
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