Ferragamo’s AW21 collection, titled Future Positive, felt particularly poignant. Rather than directly allude to the Space Age, they sought to capture the era’s optimistic mood - in effect, they looked back in order to remind us of times when people looked ahead.Īt Prada, graphic knit bodysuits were the collection’s through-line, while Demna’s Balenciaga shot forward to 2031, with NASA logo backpacks and hip-grazing silver armour boots that channelled Joan of Arc on a mission to the moon. This season, though, labels like Salvatore Ferragamo, Kiko Kostadinov and AV Vattev opted for a less literal approach to retrofuturism. Woven from recycled polyamide fibres, they’re examples of clothes that don’t just inspire thoughts of a brighter future they’re steps along the path we need to take in creating one. More than an aesthetic gesture, though, the message permeates the fabric of the pieces themselves.
More recently, Marine Serre made herself a hero of the retrofuturist canon with her stretch-jersey moon-printed bodysuits, presented in her AW19 and SS20 shows, a uniform for rebuilding a better world post-apocalypse.
In the 80s and 90s, Thierry Mugler once again took fashion to new dimensions, sending sexed-up cyborgs in metallic corsets and bodysuits down the runway.
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