T'Pring's nightmare wedding dress is from Iris Van Herpen's Autumn 2019 collection.
Star Trek Haute Couture
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I started a Pinterest board looking for Trek influenced designs in Haute Couture. I know there are a few of us who love this kind of thing. I'll share the link if people are interested and if anyone else has examples I'd love to add them to my board.
I don't keep up on fashion but I love future fashion ideas and have found some good ones that I think would work in a Trek environment. So, while I'm terrible at this I welcome the inspiration
https://pin.it/2bZvm8igA Star Trek Haute Couture
Some stuff there is from Dune (the miniseries) and the 1984 Lynch movie.
I'm sorry. Did that ruin the whole experience for you?
Dune and Star Trek aren't exactly the same franchise, so I'm just making a factual statement. There's no need to be rude.
Dune and Star Trek aren't exactly the same franchise, so I'm just making a factual statement. There's no need to be rude.
Not being rude! Not my intention. Runway designs have been used in a LOT of spec/scifi shows and movies so there's likely to be crossover. If it put you off what was meant to be a fun exploration that's disappointing. My interest is in how these visions of the future in fiction and pop culture are always weaving in and out of fashion design. I was in junior high when 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barbarella came out and inspired a bunch of designers of the time.
I didn't see the television series Dune. I saw the early film. The only items I can see on my board that aren't from the runways are the black jackets - but one is Zac Posen, one is Thierry Mugler, and one is Alexander McQueen. The others may have been inspired by or reflected in designer collections. Also, I included a dress with reed boning neckline because it reflected other trends. Is that the one you mean?
I like fashion. And I like science fiction. That's all.
You specified Star Trek, so I wondered why there were photos of characters from other franchises in there. One is labeled Star Wars, for instance.
If you'd referred to it as science fiction haute couture, that would have made more sense, I think, since there are other things besides Trek and RL items in all that.
The Dune miniseries had some really weird costuming. You've got a couple of photos of Susan Sarandon in there. She played Wensicia Corrino in a truly bizarre bit of miscasting. She's something like 30 years older than the actress who played Irulan. Irulan is the oldest Corrino sister, so of course it made sense for an actress old enough to be her mother to play her younger sister? (that's one of my peeves about that miniseries) I see Irulan's weird butterfly dress is there, as well.
But yeah, Star Trek has had quite an influence on fashion. It's interesting to me, because I used to doodle a lot of fashion designs. Maybe in another life...
But then after I started watching fashion shows on TV, I'd sometimes see things that were awfully close to what I'd drawn, and think, "holy crap, that's actually hideous when a real human wears it."
If you'd referred to it as science fiction haute couture, that would have made more sense, I think, since there are other things besides Trek and RL items in all that.
The Dune miniseries had some really weird costuming. You've got a couple of photos of Susan Sarandon in there. She played Wensicia Corrino in a truly bizarre bit of miscasting. She's something like 30 years older than the actress who played Irulan. Irulan is the oldest Corrino sister, so of course it made sense for an actress old enough to be her mother to play her younger sister? (that's one of my peeves about that miniseries) I see Irulan's weird butterfly dress is there, as well.
But yeah, Star Trek has had quite an influence on fashion. It's interesting to me, because I used to doodle a lot of fashion designs. Maybe in another life...
But then after I started watching fashion shows on TV, I'd sometimes see things that were awfully close to what I'd drawn, and think, "holy crap, that's actually hideous when a real human wears it."
Yeah, when you're the one sewing it up it's sometimes - yikes that DOES NOT translate.
I was going to label the board general sci-fi Haute Couture but I was looking at specific Trek-framed silhouettes because of T'Pring actually wearing a couture gown. The Who Mourns Adonis pink number is very similar to Jean-Louis Sabaji pink dress (and his isn't the only one). The underboob exposure solution Ware came up with to get around censors. The pagoda pointy shoulder pads in all the SNW alien fashion that you see on some designer suit jackets currently.
Anyway, I've removed most of SW or Dune shots I think unless they clothes have been seen in both or more franchises.
There are probably few people who will find this interesting anyway. But... Fashion porn for some of us. Ships of the Fleet porn for others.
I haven't seen any SNW episodes, so I'm not familiar with those costumes.
I once converted an evening dress I had into an acceptable female TOS dress uniform, just by making a patch and sewing it in place. A friend wore it at the convention we went to, even though she really didn't know much about Star Trek (two friends had agreed to dress up in costume if I provided the costumes, or at least what they didn't have themselves).
People loved that blue dress and whisked her away for photos and kept asking her questions about it - questions she couldn't answer, so she said to me, "You tell them, I don't know anything about this!"
Sadly I don't have that dress anymore. It was lost in a move. Not that I can wear it anymore, since it was 40 years ago and I'm no longer that size... but it still would have been nice to have. TOS never did establish what the women's dress uniforms looked like so I figured that was as good as any.
SNW's costume designer, Bernadette Croft, is deeply engaged with the fashion world. Probably more so than anyone ever associated with Trek. Even her Starfleet uniforms exemplify it; in many respects, they're a sort of ideal design abstraction of Trek uniforms. 
https://www.instagram.com/berncroft/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/berncroft/?hl=en
Interesting! This kind of does shatter my illusion that they designed T’Pring’s fascinating dress specifically for the show and didn’t just find an already existing one. Still, it’s a super cool piece and fits the show and that character perfectly.
Also, it’s interesting to learn about the history of that dress which is apparently called “Suminagashi” (which is the ancient Japanese art of paper marbling). There’s a timelapse video showing the people from Iris van Herpen’s atelier creating the fabric from laser cut pieces. And before it ended up in Strange New Worlds it was already worn by Eva Green at an award show and by the artist Grimes in a music video.
Also, it’s interesting to learn about the history of that dress which is apparently called “Suminagashi” (which is the ancient Japanese art of paper marbling). There’s a timelapse video showing the people from Iris van Herpen’s atelier creating the fabric from laser cut pieces. And before it ended up in Strange New Worlds it was already worn by Eva Green at an award show and by the artist Grimes in a music video.
I once saw a dress that was almost certainly a mash-up of Eve's and Ruth's dresses from "Mudd's Women." I'd remembered it as blending all three, but checking back, Magda was basically wearing a blue towel, so I guess there wasn't any aspect that could be incorporated into the design, except the color or the fringe.
The process is so cool. Bernadette Croft has some really talented technicians in her shop as well.Interesting! This kind of does shatter my illusion that they designed T’Pring’s fascinating dress specifically for the show and didn’t just find an already existing one. Still, it’s a super cool piece and fits the show and that character perfectly.
Also, it’s interesting to learn about the history of that dress which is apparently called “Suminagashi” (which is the ancient Japanese art of paper marbling). There’s a timelapse video showing the people from Iris van Herpen’s atelier creating the fabric from laser cut pieces. And before it ended up in Strange New Worlds it was already worn by Eva Green at an award show and by the artist Grimes in a music video.
Adding it!
A short lavender dress, sleeveless on one side, a long, wide draping sleeve on the other, fringes all along the bottom of the skirt and sleeve. More of a shawl than a towel.
Colorblindness strikes again!
Plus, it's kind of a neat plaid-ish style. The future of women's fashion is glittery (like stars?).
And those shoes. Sandal boots, or whatever you'd call that.
And those shoes. Sandal boots, or whatever you'd call that.
I had a brain melt for a second reading the thread title as "Star Trek Horti culture"
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