It may be some time before people get married in space (or maybe not, if you can do a condensed ceremony on a suborbital flight), but when it happens, one thing the bride won’t have to worry about is what to wear. The Guardian reports that Japanese fashion designer Eri Matsui has designed a wedding dress “that looks good without the aid of gravity.” Matsui told the British newspaper that she photographed models on parabolic flights sponsored by the Japanese space agency JAXA to help her design. (Sadly, the article doesn’t include any photos, nor is it obvious on Matsui’s web site what the dress looks like.) Matsui is also sponsoring a “Hyper Space Couture Design Contest”; the winner will collaborate withMatsui on designing clothes for the “first generation of fashion-conscious space tourists.” (Rocketplane Ltd. is listed as one of the sponsors of the competition.)
[…] None other than the New York Times examines the issue of what fashionable space tourists will wear, following up on an article in The Guardian last week (see earlier coverage). The Times article, though, does feature pictures of the “weightless wedding dress” by designer Eri Matsui mentioned, but not shown, in the Guardian article. In (simulated) weightlessness it looks, um,… poofy. […]