THE FLAIR UP THERE
Buzz Aldrin may have been the second man to walk on the moon, but he was, at least, the first astronaut to walk the New York Fashion Week runway. Two years ago, the space exploration pioneer — whose personal style is of a more bohemian bent, with gangsta levels of jewellery — moved through Earth’s gravity at a steady enough pace for an 87-year-old dressed in (what else) a metallic silver jacket from designer Nick Graham’s Life on Mars collection. And, yes, Aldrin still looked like a bit of a dude.
Even if we barely know the names of spacemen and women today, we know that NASA’s Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programmes set a high bar for style, not least because they made national celebrities of the individuals chosen to fly literally out of this world — and of their families. noted how the astronauts quickly came to embody great ‘US of A’ values, the likes of duty, faith and country. “Nobody went away from these young men scoffing at their courage and idealism,” it noted. And such was the hype that even their children became famous. magazine ran an exclusive on ‘Carolyn Glenn: Astronaut John Glenn’s Daughter Reveals Why She’s Way Out
