Barbara Brownie is Principal Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where she leads online postgraduate study in the School of art and Design. She is co-author of The Superhero Costume (Bloomsbury, 2015) and author of Transforming Type (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Acts of Undressing (Bloomsbury, 2016).

If widespread commercial space travel is as imminent as Brownie contends, this book will indeed be required reading for designers tackling the task...Summing Up: Recommended

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The final frontier of fashionChapter 1: Space StyleThe First Space RaceThe Commercial Space AgeThe Art and Design Legacy of the Space Age Chapter 2: Weightlessness on (and above) the catwalk Suspension and rigged displaysFloating fashionFree-falling fashion modelsChapter 3: Commercial SpacewearForm, function, and fantasySuiting the space touristOff-the-shelf and out-of-this-worldChapter 4: The Clothed Body in Microgravity ‘One small step’: Movement in microgravityPosture, shape and the weightless bodyDrape in weightlessnessConclusion: Designing post-gravity fashionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Barbara Brownie is Principal Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where she leads online postgraduate study in the School of art and Design. She is co-author of The Superhero Costume (Bloomsbury, 2015) and author of Transforming Type (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Acts of Undressing (Bloomsbury, 2016).

If widespread commercial space travel is as imminent as Brownie contends, this book will indeed be required reading for designers tackling the task...Summing Up: Recommended

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The final frontier of fashionChapter 1: Space StyleThe First Space RaceThe Commercial Space AgeThe Art and Design Legacy of the Space Age Chapter 2: Weightlessness on (and above) the catwalk Suspension and rigged displaysFloating fashionFree-falling fashion modelsChapter 3: Commercial SpacewearForm, function, and fantasySuiting the space touristOff-the-shelf and out-of-this-worldChapter 4: The Clothed Body in Microgravity ‘One small step’: Movement in microgravityPosture, shape and the weightless bodyDrape in weightlessnessConclusion: Designing post-gravity fashionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Barbara Brownie is Principal Lecturer in Visual Communication at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, where she leads online postgraduate study in the School of art and Design. She is co-author of The Superhero Costume (Bloomsbury, 2015) and author of Transforming Type (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Acts of Undressing (Bloomsbury, 2016).

If widespread commercial space travel is as imminent as Brownie contends, this book will indeed be required reading for designers tackling the task...Summing Up: Recommended

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The final frontier of fashionChapter 1: Space StyleThe First Space RaceThe Commercial Space AgeThe Art and Design Legacy of the Space Age Chapter 2: Weightlessness on (and above) the catwalk Suspension and rigged displaysFloating fashionFree-falling fashion modelsChapter 3: Commercial SpacewearForm, function, and fantasySuiting the space touristOff-the-shelf and out-of-this-worldChapter 4: The Clothed Body in Microgravity ‘One small step’: Movement in microgravityPosture, shape and the weightless bodyDrape in weightlessnessConclusion: Designing post-gravity fashionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex