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Really Really Haute Couture   

Clifford at 1:15 am, May 18th, 2006

zero g wedding dress Well, as Summer wedding season is almost upon us, I’d like to urge all of the readers out there, who might be still dithering over what wedding dress to choose, to consider Eri Matsui’s zero gravity wedding dress design, pictured on the right. There it is with gravity, and with no gravity. I suppose you’ll have to also work on how to get all the guests -and the ceremony- at zero gravity as well.

To solve the latter problem, consider booking tickets on the Rocketplane, which will be taking tourists up to space for 15 miutes for about $250,000 each. This will start next year though, so hold those wedding plans.

But wait. While you have this extra time to wait for the Rocketplane ride, get your invited guests to start designing their own space fashion designs. They can enter their sketches into a contest (closing date August 15th), and maybe get them made in time to wear to the wedding, since, as I learned from Dennis Overbye’s article in the New York Times science section, while waiting for a flight on Tuesday**:

[...] the Japanese space agency, JAXA, and Rocketplane Ltd., a space tourism company in Oklahoma, are sponsoring a space fashion contest for clothes that look good in zero gravity. The best designs will appear in a fashion show in Tokyo this fall.

(No, I don’t know what it was doing in the science section either, but, well… just go with the flow, cvj…go with the flow.)

Notable quote:

“I hope ‘fashion in space’ makes everybody happy,” said Eri Matsui, a Tokyo fashion designer who presides over the Hyper Space Couture Design Contest.

Seriously…get sketching! It can add a new dimension to your doodles during those not-so-interesting parts of the meetings at work. Also, designing clothes can be fun, whether you’re entering it into a contest or not.

-cvj

(**Also: Thanks for the reminder, John Branch.)

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  1. Cynthia on May 19th, 2006 at 11:03 am

    If one is to consider designing the latest gravitational gown, then one first must grasp the latest on gravity. Keep in mind, the mundane era of Newton has long faded away. Even the charismatic Einstein with his spacetime curvature is on the verge of exiting the fashion scene. It is time for designers to embrace extra dimensions beyond the ordinary 3 + 1 ! To set this new epoch of gravitation into motion, one must be required to imagine “the girl” as the brane and “the gown” as the cosmic interloper freely flowing to and fro in the bulk. In order to capture this Gia Dvali original, one must create the look of gravity oscillating between the brane and the bulk. However, one possible glitch might arise: during the designing process of approaching absolute zero gravity (unless the technical staff can find some quantum means to sequester gravity upon the brane), a total leakage of gravity into the bulk might transform a fully dressed brane into a naked brane. Therefore, for the sake of preventing absolute nudity, perhaps designers ought to return to the safetynet of Newton and Einstein.

  2. serial catowner on May 20th, 2006 at 7:24 am

    I think I’ll stick with Xena, Girl of the 21st Century. Close enough, for all practical purposes.

  3. John Branch on May 20th, 2006 at 10:59 am

    After I emailed Clifford about that Times story, I worried that he’d think it was pointlessly silly. I’m glad he didn’t. There’s something…gleeful in this mingling of fashion and physics.

    Now, if only we could work Lisa Randall into this (beyond whatever indirect connection she has to cynthia’s ideas, which are a delight of their own)…

  4. Clifford on May 20th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    LOL! After the things I’ve blogged about here, you’d think that was pointlessly silly? ! In fact, I’d already had my eye on it…. just had to do a 10 hour flight first. But thanks again for the reminder, as I’d forgotten…. I’m all at sea with regards your last paragraph, but there you go.

    -cvj

  5. Cynthia on May 21st, 2006 at 4:47 pm

    John Branch: In spite of the considerably tongue-in-cheek nature of my above comment, I - nevertheless - fully accept your kind thought: keep in mind, I’m far too fashionless to take fashion seriously.

    Clifford: I’m sorry to have submerged you in my sea of “all at sea”.



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