Japanese Astronaut Gets Designer "Space Suit"

Naoko Yamazaki knows you have to look good at work even if your work is in outer space. Japanese fashion designer Tae Ashida has created a designer suit for the female astronaut to wear during her stay on the International Space Station. "As a female designer, I chose a design and colour with a sense of grace ... so that she can feel at ease as she carries out a tough mission in a male-dominated, bleak atmosphere. It's like a dream come true to see my clothes worn in space," said Ashida. "I'm looking forward to seeing her wear my design."

Comments

Sets a HORRIBLE example for female youth

[Anonymous Coward]

No girls are going to be able to live up to the high-fashion ideals of calf length without some serious orthopedic surgical intervention.

Misleading title

[Andy Dodd]

Space suit refers to the equipment needed to operate in vacuum.

This is just a set of "work clothes" for one particular astronaut.

Re:Misleading title

[sznupi]

And BTW some people are working on space suit (proper) technology which does end up looking rather fashionable; relying on the obserbation that human skin is already a pretty good "space suit", except for providing mechanical pressure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit
http://mvl.mit.edu/EVA/biosuit/index.html

PS. Definatelly provides an argument to my views that, while there really isn't something like too little breasts, there is something like "too big" ones - seems they have some some chance of being containing to Earth and dying out once we set for the stairs ;p

Re:Skills

[OzPeter]

Might be a good designer, but definitely isn't a good artist. Either that or she thought the astronaut's legs were the same length as the rest of her body.

I have yet to see any fashion design sketches that were anatomically correct in their proportions. I gather that such sketches are meant to be impressionistic rather than realistic.

Because an ugly female-astronaut can't perform

[Superdarion]

So, a woman manages to overcome all the dificulties it represents to move in a male-dominated environment, doing what few women have done in the past, struggling not only to accomplish her main mission in space but also to destroy those obsolete, yet still in place, ideas that certain areas belong to men only, and here comes some idiotic designer saying "a girl has to be pretty"?!

so that she can feel at ease as she carries out a tough mission

Fuck Tae!

slow news day?

[ckaminski]

My god, the summary leads you to believe they actually made a designer "space-suit", you know, for EVAs. At least that's what it led *me* to believe.

This is GAP for the Japanese Space Agency. Boo!

Man, legs like those could wrap around you twice!

Must be a slow news day.

Ye gods, those legs

[Chris Mattern]

Maybe next time she can design a spacesuit for a human. It's been a long time since the fashion industry designed anything for actual human beings.

Re:But why?

[pavon]

Except the clothing is intended to be worn on people, so how can you judge if it will actually look good if you design it for aliens? It's like car designers intentionally doing all their drawings such that only 3' midgets can use the car or furniture designers intentionally drawing things out of proportion to the human form. The purpose of sketches is to develop and test ideas before a prototype is made, but if you have to completely rework the proportions between sketching and prototyping then the sketch is worthless for the purpose of judging the aesthetic appeal of the design. It is like the entire fashion industry is in denial about what medium they working in.

Re:Skills

[Migraineman]

Definitely Pencilshopped. I'm certain I've seen this on PencilshopDisasters.com.

A great leap forward for gender relations.

[Malibee]

I'm sure designer clothes will inspire the males in the male-dominated atmosphere to take great pains to put the female at ease. Because really what keeps us male astronauts from treating you female astronauts with the dignity and respect that you _deserve_ is simply that you dress like hobos.

PS: not actually an astronaut.