Space suits have never been the pinnacle of chic. The microwavable-popcorn-bag silhouettes are anything but flattering, and don’t get me started on the helmets and footwear. But if Elon Musk and a couple of other male billionaires reaching for the stars succeed in making over conventional space wear, the future of celestial fashion will be more James Bond than Buzz Lightyear. One day, we may even hear someone on Mars screech, “Who are you wearing?”
Musk, who, as the founder of SpaceX, dreams of putting a white picket fence on Mars by 2029, wants his space suits to look “badass.” The eccentric entrepreneur turned to special effects maestro and Hollywood costume designer Jose Fernandez, who created wardrobes for and multiple X-Men films, to finesse the look of the suits worn on his ’s debut voyage to the International Space Station in 2020. Side note: Musk’s team collaborated with NASA on the technical design, but he wasn’t leaving the bells and whistles to
