Futuristic Fashion: 35 Out-of-this-World Designer Looks

[Slav Defence]

Looking straight out of a gritty sci-fi movie, these 35 futuristic and sometimes bizarre high-fashion looks envision a future of metallic artificial hair, dresses that dispense actual cocktails, accordion-like protective headgear and outfits that would fit right in on an alien runway.

Metallic Hair by Junya Watanabe

Human hair is replaced with sharp, shiny headwear in Junya Watanabe’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Functional helmets they’re not, and they certainly look a bit odd to our eyes, but imagine just pulling this thing onto your head every morning and walking out the door rather than spending time styling your hair.

Sharp and Monochromatic Looks from Gareth Pugh

Few designers deliver such consistently dark, futuristic and beautifully bizarre looks season after season as does Gareth Pugh. The Paris-based, London-born designer is known for his performance art approach to fashion, which frequently includes wearable sculptures and is based on visual themes like the apocalypse, aliens and carnivals.

Whiteness Costume by Julia Krantz

This strange project by Julia Krantz is a combination of costumery, photography and graphic design, focusing on the concept of a fictional guerilla protester. Decked out in a protective get-up, the model is dressed in all white to represent the forces of good in times of popular uprisings.

 

[Slav Defence]

Andrej Pejic in Dazed and Confused

Featuring model Andrej Pejic, this editorial in Dazed and Confused magazine by photographer Anthony Maule and stylist Robbie Spencer looks like fashion from another planet. The shoot features alien armor, vaguely psychedelic superhero costumes and clear plastic exoskeletons.

Structure by Winde Rienstra

Designer Winde Rienstra’s stunning Spring/Summer 2012 collection looks like architecture for the body, with bridge-like structure spanning shoulders, chests and hips. The collection explores the ambiguity between clothing and objects with wearable sculptures that transform the shape of the human body.

Animatronic Fashion by Hussein Chayalan

“The girl walked in and stood stock-still, dressed in a long, high-necked corseted Victorian gown,” writes Sarah Mower of Style.com, who was present for Hussein Chayalan’s debut of his Spring Summer 2007 collection. “Then her clothes began to twitch, move, and reconfigure of their own accord. The mono-bosom top opened, the jacket retreated, the hemline started to rise, and—finally, amazingly—there she was, wearing a crystal-beaded flapper dress: a woman propelled through fashion history from 1895 to the twenties in the space of a minute.”

Check out this amazing transformational animatronic fashion in the video above, but be warned – there are just about zero clothes left on the models by the end.

Smoke Dress and Cocktail Dress

Fashion already has the function of protecting our bodies and expressing personal style, but should we expect it to do more? The TECHNOSENSUAL: Where Fashion Meets Technology project showcases high-tech fashion capable of performing all sorts of strange feats. In addition to a dress with sensors that turn the fabric from opaque to transparent depending on who’s around, the exhibit featured a literal cocktail dress that dispenses fancy drinks, and a dress that cloaks the wearer in clouds of smoke for extra mystery, allure and coughing fits.

Invisible Shoes and Illuminated Heels

Of course, futuristic fashion extends to our feet as well, and these two designs from Andreia Chaves and Rodarte don’t disappoint. Chaves’ ‘Invisible Shoes’ are covered in faceted mirrors to reflect the surrounding environment, while Rodarte’s illuminated heels, imbedded with small LED lights that glow through a material that appears to be dripping wax, appeal to the grown-up, stiletto-loving woman who still secretly covets light-up sneakers.

 

[SHAMK9]

Freaky ones from Pakistan

 

[Pboy]

Dayuuumn...

Man that frikkin ugly... :/

 

[Kompromat]

All female?? This is sexist!

 

[A.Rafay]

Who will wear these at normal days? Not even on special occasions.

 

[W.11]

there will be a time when west will forget wearing cloths and that will be the future fashion

and muslims will copy west as usual

 

[Karachiite]

These are especially for runways. The average person won't be able to afford them nor will designers want average people to wear them. This is catered to a niche market. I like a lot of designs being churned out by Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester, they're very dark and somewhat futuristic.

And if anything most designers are taking inspiration from the past.

 

[sms]

^^That's darn ugly!!
I was taught that every thing evolves. I'm not how and why futuristic dresses will be so ugly?
If that's future I prefer to follow fashion today ...

 

[DRaisinHerald]

Uuugh...the future is looking bleak

Imagine if the designers spent their time and money designing clothes that people are actually going to wear..imagine..

 

[SHAMK9]

Who will wear these at normal days? Not even on special occasions.

This is runway stuff, no one ever gets to wear them except models.

 

[Koovie]