What will you wear for your first trip to space?
If you're the same as most people, then perhaps what the space suit or astronaut outfit you're offering is from the company (or government agency). But if you're Lauren Sanchez, if you're a journalist, pilot, children's book author, philanthropist and the fiancé of Jeff Bezos, the second richest man on the planet, then you have another idea. “Let's rethink our flight suits.”
“Usually these suits are made for men,” Sanchez said in a video call from the West Coast recently. “Then they're tailored to fit women.” or not customized: All female spaceships planned for 2019 had to be cancelled as NASA doesn't have two space suits to fit two women. (Instead, they sent one woman and one man.)
However, Sanchez is part of the first all-women's flight since Russia sent Valentina Teleshkova on a solo flight in 1963. She rises on the Blue Origin Flight of the pop star (Gail King), two scientists/activists (Amanda Ngwen, Aisha Bowun) (Amanda Bowun Flyna) (Gail King). Feeling like yourself makes you feel powerful, she said, and you shouldn't have to sacrifice it. Even if you're a space tourist, not a full-fledged astronaut.
Five months ago, Sanchez contacted Laura Kim, co-founder of Fernando Garcia and Brand Montse. Montse is also creative director at Oscar de la Renta (Garcia and Kim created Sanchez's 2024 Met Gala outfit). She wanted to know if she would work with Bezos' space company Blue Origin.
“I was: Soon!” Garcia said on Zoom.
The results of their collaboration will be announced Monday as Sanchez and his crew climb a rocket of blue origin in western Texas and take off for a trip past the Kalman Line to zero gravity.
“I think the suit is elegant,” Sanchez said.
When Gale King tried her out, she said she loved it. She thought the suit was “professional and feminine at the same time.”
When it comes to space, she said it just happened to be “something I've never seen before.”
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Still, “I really didn't know where to start,” Garcia said. “There is no precedent. All references are male cosmic protection.”
Because the blue origin flyers have not appeared in space, Garcia and Kim didn't have to incorporate the life support system of the classic astronaut suit, but they still had to work within technical specifications.
“Simplicity was important, it was comfortable and fit,” Garcia said. “But I wanted something a little dangerous, like motocross outfits and ski suits. It's flattering and sexy.”
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They came up with Sanchez and their ideas before and after. “We also had a meeting about underwear that Lauren would wear,” Garcia said.
“Skim!” replied Sanchez.
The result is a compression layer, a slight mandarin collar, a dual zip front that appears to be open at the waist, and a dual zip front that looks like a zipper on the sides of each calf, allowing the wearer to create a flare effect according to his preferences. “You could zip or thaw,” Garcia said. (King said he liked the idea of ​​a bell bottom.)
The suit also features a darker ombre effect on the sides that work to shade the body, like the Tromp Rail. There are small pockets on the arms, but the pockets on the legs were dropped because they were bulky, Kim said. All crew members were 3-D body skans, so the suits could be made accurately for measurements.
“I almost put a corset in your suit because I know you didn't object to it,” Garcia told Sanchez.
“I probably don't have it,” she said. But “We're going to be zero gravity, so we have to be able to move.” When Sanchez first tried the prototype, she said, “I was stretching. I was doing a backbend. “OK, let's make sure it doesn't split the back of the universe.”
Garcia said when he saw the suit he thought, “Damn, you look good. You're rising in a hot-looking universe.”
Amanda Nguyen called the suit “revolutionary.” Clothes are about identity and expression, and by making women look like women, suits are statements that “women belong to the universe.”
Blue Origin is not the first private space company to register a fashion brand to help with costume design. Axiom Space is collaborating with Prada on the Extravehular Mobility Unit Spacesuit, as well as the suit that NASA astronauts wear while walking the moon during the Artemis III mission in 2026 (the prototype was revealed last October). Similarly, Elon Musk worked with costume designer Jose Fernandez, the man behind “Fit” in SpaceX suits “Fantastic Four” and “The Avengers.”
Regarding why fashion designers suddenly became so popular with Astrophysics sets, Garcia said, “If a suit looks friendly and everyone can wear, the space may feel a little far away.” Perhaps Garcia said when people see the Montse Bleu's Origin style, they might even think, “I want to buy that spacesuit and go to the gym.”
In fact, he continued, and he and Kim thought “we would set up an office on Mars.” In both cases, he was joking. A kind of thing.
It turns out that Garcia, Kim and Sanchez were already working on something else because of the blue origins associated with the “Moon.” Blue Origin has been selected by NASA to develop the human landing system for Artemis v Mission to the Moon, but Sánchez wouldn't have said if Monse had anything to do with it.
However, she was excited to give her space travel a new look.
“This isn't what you call 'normal', but neither of them sends six women into space,” she said. “If you want to be glamour, it's great. If you don't, it's great.” The point was that everyone could choose.
She then quoted what Katy Perry said to her: “We have a 'butt' on the astronaut,” she said.
